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Norm candidates in Round 11:

Lorenzo Fava (Warwickshire, Bd.122) - draw for an IM norm (plays Theo Khoury, 2195)
Max Turner (White Rose, Bd.133) - win for an IM norm (plays Shreyas Royal, 2505)
James Jackson (Wood Green Youth, Bd.153) - win for a GM norm (plays Jakub Kosakowski, 2550)

Zero comments about the national chess league since November! This morning is the 11th and final round. Can anybody (Loz? Alex?) tell me who are the candidates (if any) for GM, IM, WGM and WIM title norms? Sergey Korshunov (Wood Green Youth) earned an IM norm in Round 10 (his 2nd norm). Lorenzo Fav...

Bidding is common in online armageddons but it could be the first time FIDE have used it. I've seen it in the regulations of some FIDE tournaments this year (e.g. the World Rapid & Blitz Teams Championship), but it may not have been actually used yet (and I'd be surprised if we went the entire Worl...

Order of AROc1 amongst potential qualifiers in the Open: 1) Mishra Abhimanyu (6.5pts, 2731 AROc1) 2) Bluebaum Matthias (7pts, 2694.9 AROc1) 3) Erigaisi Arjun (6.5pts, 2687.2 AROc1) 4) Woodward Andy (6.5pts, 2686.1 AROc1) 5) Firouzja Alireza (7pts, 2684 AROc1) 6) Niemann Hans Moke (7pts, 2668.4 AROc1...

Norm chances by my maths going into Rd.8 (presuming all ratings and titled on chess-results are accurate FIDE): Czopor (GM) - play Bazakutsa tomorrow (needs a third non-ENG at 2465+, he's the only one) and score 2.0/2 (I think he is the only non-ENG player still up for a norm as all the others canno...

Looks like Li got an IM norm, though. I'm not sure he does - he's played 7 English players (usually max 6/9), which is only allowed in this event under 1.4.3d : Swiss System tournaments in which participants include in every round at least 20 FIDE rated players, not from the host federation, from a...

Is it right that Freddie Gordon passed 2400 at the last 4NCL weekend and so achieved the IM title at 14? Who is the youngest ever British IM? I don't know the answer. While Freddie has three norms and a 2400 rating, none of the three norms on the FIDE website are a swiss or a national championship,...

Yes, it looks like the two leaders can play each other and the four on six can all be paired. I'm nervously waiting for the final round pairings to see how many of my 4NCL team have a norm chance in the last round. By my maths (presuming the ratings on chess-results are all FIDE ratings and no nati...

Koby's only remaining route to an IM norm is to go 2/2 facing a 2350+ in the last round. None of the other ENG players have any remaining norm chance. White against a 2364 IM born in 2006. Cutting it about as fine as you can get! What I also missed is that a win against a 2346+ would also have been...

Koby's only remaining route to an IM norm is to go 2/2 facing a 2350+ in the last round. None of the other ENG players have any remaining norm chance.

Round 9 draw: 15 62 GM Muradli, Mahammad 2575 5½ 5½ GM Vitiugov, Nikita 2668 7 35 24 GM Rodshtein, Maxim 2636 5 5 GM Fernandez, Daniel Howard 2503 105 76 305 WFM Kochavi, Dana 2166 4½ 4½ IM Wadsworth, Matthew J 2461 129 78 297 FM Olcum, Ahmet 2180 4½ 4½ IM Willow, Jonah B 2454 131 100 154 IM Aizenb...

Surrey Rules "2.8.8 If a player's phone or electronic device makes any sound during his game, then on the first occurrence he shall receive a warning, and for a second offence by the same player in the same game, he shall lose the game. 2.8.9 Where an offending player loses in accordance with the p...

Link to round 9 draw: https://chess-results.com/tnr969132.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=9&turdet=YES&flag=30 Bazakutsa has got his third GM pairing but I think will also fail the TPR requirement as well as having (unfortunately) played nine ENG players. So no norm chances there, but hopefully more norm chanc...

Live norm chances after the Rd.9 draw: Shreyas Royal (GM) - draw as black vs Michael Adams Matthew Wadsworth (GM) - draw as black vs Richard Pallister Alex Golding (IM) - win as black vs Jacob Boswell Aaravamudhan Balaji (IM) - draw as black vs Paul Motwani Bodhana Sivanandhan (WIM) - draw as black ...

It's good pairings for some norm seekers, disasterous for others. Norm chances that are still live as of the Round 8 pairings (again unofficial calculations, opponent requirements are for Rd.9): Shreyas Royal (GM) - 1/2 with a 2547+, 1.5/2 with anyone else Ameet Ghasi (GM) - 1/2 with a 2467+, 1.5/2 ...