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Nottingham, Derby or Leicester areas perhaps. In the past, the 4NCL have used Hinckley, not so far south of Leicester and South Normanton, a bit north of Nottingham. I suppose the issue with going further North is that the 4 Welsh teams and 4 Oxford teams (and maybe others) may then consider 3 Sout...

Well done to Alex for nearly knocking over that strong Russian FM yesterday. Great game! Bullen, Alex (WLS) - Pozdnjakov, Viatcheslav (RUS) 0-1 Summer Prague Open 2020 round 04 1. d4 Nf6 2. Nf3 g6 3. Nbd2 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. Bd3 O-O 6. O-O c5 7. c3 cxd4 8. cxd4 Nc6 9. Re1 Bg4 10. h3 Bd7 11. Nb3 a5 12. ...

It really is life as normal here in the Czech Republic though, so why would they take care at chess tournaments? Masks only need be worn on the Metro (Underground) and the whole country feel that they are well past the worst of COVID. I don't feel like anyone can point the finger at the organisers a...

Last month he gained 17 points so if he keeps up this rate he'll be 2890 by this time next year. Rather amusing but I guess he'll start to qualify for things like the Candidates if he continues like this?

I have noticed that the final weekend of Division 4 games have all been rated twice on the FIDE website. I am hoping that this will simply be rectified soon and that this does not need to reported to FIDE? (I had to contact them once before and it was too much hassle to be repeated in a hurry).

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