Brentwood Chess Congress
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Brentwood Chess Congress
I have had a lot of people enquiring about 2008 and just to let you know I am hoping to go ahead but am having difficultly getting a venue as the hall we used before was very expensive (twice what I have heard other congresses pay). Brentwood has several venues but they do not cater for 200+ people and so the local council, although very nice, can't really help. I will update in a couple of weeks with a yeah or ney on it going ahead but I am running out of venues and it may have to go on tour around South Essex/Outer London!!
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2nd Brentwood Chess Congress 2008
The 2nd Brentwood Chess Congress is going ahead after securing a reduction in the hiring of the venue. It is on 16th-17th February 2008 at the Brentwood School Sports Hall, Middleton Hall Lane, Brentwood, Essex. CM15 8EE.
The 1st Prizes will be: OPEN: £1000; MAJOR:£400; MINOR: £400. There will be prizes for 2nd/3rd places, grading and junior prizes.
The website will have a new address: http://www.bichesscongress.co.uk which will go live by the end of next week (I still own the .com site but have been to busy to transfer it!). You will be able to download an entry form from here.
If you need any help with accomodation or anyother enquiries feel free to email me at [email protected].
Thanks for all the support it has been much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Gavin Strachan
The 1st Prizes will be: OPEN: £1000; MAJOR:£400; MINOR: £400. There will be prizes for 2nd/3rd places, grading and junior prizes.
The website will have a new address: http://www.bichesscongress.co.uk which will go live by the end of next week (I still own the .com site but have been to busy to transfer it!). You will be able to download an entry form from here.
If you need any help with accomodation or anyother enquiries feel free to email me at [email protected].
Thanks for all the support it has been much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Gavin Strachan
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Re: Brentwood Chess Congress
Only one week to go, get your entries in quick! Two GM's and an IM already feature in the Open. Particularly need more juniors for the junior tournaments (two one day tournaments).
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Re: Brentwood Chess Congress
A few days to go...
GM Jonathon Rowson, GM Daniel Gormally, GM Matthew Turner and GM Neil McDonald all feature in the Open.
Still could do with more juniors, especially U14!!
Regards
Gavin Strachan
GM Jonathon Rowson, GM Daniel Gormally, GM Matthew Turner and GM Neil McDonald all feature in the Open.
Still could do with more juniors, especially U14!!
Regards
Gavin Strachan
http://www.brentwoodchessclub.org/
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Re: Brentwood Chess Congress
Hi hope to update the website asap with all games and results but just to quickly announce that the 2nd Brentwood International Chess Congress Masters Open was won jointly by GM Jonathon Rowson and IM Odion Aikhoje in a field that had 3 GM's (same as last year) and 5 IM's. Well done also to Ali Kikoyo who came 1st in the Major and Radha Jain and Adrian Riley who were joint leaders in the Minor. We had 197 entrants which was a cracking achievement especially as their were lots of SCCU county games on the Saturday which meant a lot of people couldn't take part who might have.
See you next year and thanks for the support,
Kind Regards
Gavin Strachan
See you next year and thanks for the support,
Kind Regards
Gavin Strachan
http://www.brentwoodchessclub.org/
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