OPEN
1st: GM Mark Hebden 4/5
2nd: GM Keith Arkell 3.5/5
2nd: GM Nigel Davies
2nd: Richard Dineley
2nd: Mike Surtees
Grading Prize: Paul Evans
MAJOR
1st: Richard Desmedt 4/5
2nd: James Nick Hawkins 3.5
2nd: Michael Connor
2nd: David Patrick
2nd: George Brian Davies
2nd: Richard Szwajkun
Grading Prizes: Huw Davies, Timothy Soar, Adrian Cucumber
Slow Starter Prizes: Robin Kirkwood, Robert Klegg
MINOR
1st: Stephen Crocket 4/5
1st: Geraint B George
1st: Gordon Sommerville
Grading Prizes: Patrick Coleman, Martin Gill
Slow Starter Prizes: Terry Burgess, Jim Waddington
Grateful thanks to Stephen Crockett who donated his full prize to the North Wales Junior Chess Association.
Best Junior Prize: Przemyslaw Swiech
1st Colwyn Bay Chess Congress
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Re: 1st Colwyn Bay Chess Congress
Is there any feedback from the application of the 1st July FIDE rules? I wouldn't suppose anyone lost by playing a second illegal move, but how many times did arbiters have to pretend not to notice mobile phones and other electronic devices? For that matter was the now traditional start of play announcement to switch off mobile phones continued?
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Re: 1st Colwyn Bay Chess Congress
This was an interesting one. Kevin Staveley came up with the plan of allowing people to keep their mobiles on them but only if they registered the number with the arbiters first and paid a 50p donation to charity. Everyone seemed to go for this happily. If your phone then made a sound, you defaulted the round as normal. However, if your phone made a sound and you were found not to have registered it, you would be disqualified from the event. I imagine this will be debated at length over the coming events.
Every player received a piece of paper at their board before their first game making these rules clear.
Obviously, players can choose not to register and pay and fair enough. As long as their phone is off and doesn't make a sound, then who's to know?
Every player received a piece of paper at their board before their first game making these rules clear.
Obviously, players can choose not to register and pay and fair enough. As long as their phone is off and doesn't make a sound, then who's to know?
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