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56th Rhyl Chess Congress 12th - 14th September 2025

4 FIDE Sections: Open , Major, Inter & Minor

WCU FIDE event , 5 rounds of 110 minutes plus 10 second increments from move 1

Chief Arbiter : Peter Purland

Rhyl Town Hall
Wellington Road
Rhyl , LL18 1BA

Further delays to appear shortly

The 55th Rhyl Congress will be FIDE , WCU & ECF rated for all 3 sections.

3 FIDE Sections: Open , Major (Under 1850) & Minor (Under 1600) WCU event , 5 rounds of 110 minutes plus 10 second increments from move 1 Chief Arbiter : Peter Purland Rhyl Town Hall Wellington Road Rhyl , LL18 1BA Prizes , all sections 1st £350 2nd £175 3rd £75 & grading prizes of £75

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NigelCollins wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 15, 2023 3:02 pm

Class G Direct Members voting in 9.3 regarding Option 2 v No change

Also if all the Bronze and Silver votes were cast for “No change” then the result would have been 136 to 137 …

Not possible, only 136 - 131 at best

Class G Direct Members voting in motion 9.1 regarding Option 1 v 2 Gold 3-9 Silver 0-30 Bronze 0-0 I guess the extra 18 votes in Silver were an administrative error… Are the results from the individual class members’ polls (linked to in earlier replies) published? Odd that there was no voting from ...

quote"Unread post by Dragoljub Sudar » Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:19 pm As mentioned before, I would prefer to see Bronze and Silver merged to encourage Bronze members to try Congress chess, but the board seems not to have even considered this option." I proposed this at the Finance Meeting but it was out v...

by Mick Norris » Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:55 am I am told that Bill O'Rourke has resigned as President of Lancashire Wrong by David Sedgwick » Wed Nov 02, 2022 10:38 am I had been told that the Lancashire boycott was likely. Rubbish From an email received a few weeks ago from Bill O'Rourke Dear All After...

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Perhaps I should have pointed out instead that only ninety silver members bothered to vote in the recent election for Direct Members' Representatives.

Even worse is approx 1/3 of ECF votes held by representatives are never used at AGM or Finance meetings.

Why not consult with the members though? What possible good reason can there be?

Unless the person wanting to be nominated is totally unfit for the position, what possible good reason is there not to nominate them and let the whole electorate decide?