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What are you doing next weekend? If you are free on 5 or 6 April, and within commuting distance of Leeds City Museum, then you are in for a treat if you are a fan of chess, Scrabble or Magic! A beautiful venue and cash prizes galore to be won!

Here are some photos of the event in Birmingham last weekend - https://www.flickr.com/photos/adamraoof ... 212728395/

Mind Sports International give you the opportunity for you to play Chess, Scrabble and Magic all week-end long! The prizes are great!

NO LATE FEES - JUST REGISTER ONLINE.

Details of the tournaments can be found below. The Sunday Rapidplay is a qualifier for the £10,000 grand final in London, to be held on 19-23 November 2014. Click here http://www.jotformeu.com/form/40784684467368 to register.

VENUE: Leeds City Museum, Millennium Square,Cookridge Street, Leeds, West Yorkshire LS2 8BH

Organised by Mind Sports International - http://www.mindsportsacademy.com/chess

There will be discovery sessions each day at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm for you to learn more about the different mind sports. Here's the chess stuff;

SCHEDULE FOR ALL MSI CHESS WEEKENDS IN THE GRAND PRIX

Chess - On Saturday
Chess Rapidplay 'Warm-Up'
Start Time: 10:30am - finish 6pm latest
Entry Fee: £20
£15 for full MSI Academy members
+£6 for players that are not Academy or ECF- Silver and above (+£4 if under 16).
Prizes: £100 for 1st place
A guaranteed £200 will be available in additional grading prizes
ECF Graded
One graded section, 1 Half-Point Bye available in Round 1
Time control: 30 minutes per player
Register here now!

Coaching Tournament
An experienced Chess trainer will be available between games to give you tips and advice to improve your game.
Start Time: 10am and/or 2pm
Entry Fee: £15 per session, £25 if doing both.
Register here now! - http://www.jotformeu.com/form/40784684467368

Chess - On Sunday
Academy National Qualifier - Chess Rapidplay - SIX ROUNDS
Start Time: 10:30am - finish 6pm latest
Entry Fee: £20.00
£15.00 for full MSI Academy members
+£6 for players that are not Academy or ECF - Silver member and above (+£4 if under 16).
Prizes (per section - OPEN, Major Under 160 and Amateur Under 120):
1st place - £80.00 + Free Entry into Mind Sports International Chess World Championship (worth £150)
2nd place - £50.00
3rd place - £30.00
4th place (Open only) - £20
Register here now! - http://www.jotformeu.com/form/40784684467368

The overall winner for the Open Section will also be awarded a £250 appearance fee upon attendance at the Mind Sports International Chess World Championship
ECF Graded - SIX ROUNDS
3 graded sections - Open, Major (U160), Minor (U120)
1 Half-Point Bye available in Round 1
Time control: 30 minutes per player

VENUE

· http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalle ... ation.aspx - most of the information about the venue is there

· Parking on Woodhouse Lane is best, with £5 covering 12 hours of parking. http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/carp ... ls2/leeds/

· free parking, but away from the city centre - http://en.parkopedia.co.uk/parking/carp ... ls6/leeds/

GRAND PRIX SCHEDULE

Here are the dates for the rest of the series, with the grand final to be held in London over five days in November in the Platinum Suite of the Excel Centre in Docklands..


Leeds 5th-6th April
Bristol 10th-11th May
Liverpool 7th-8th June
Peterborough 5th-6th July
Plymouth 16th-17th August
Newcastle 13th-14th September
London 25th-26th October

LONDON GRAND FINAL £10,000 in prizes 19-23 November

REGISTER NOW FOR Leeds!

Would have loved to have come, as I’m also interested in seeing how Magic is played, sadly it clashes with a Yorkshire League match

Had me double checking the fixture list for a second there There isn't a major Yorkshire League clash, just one of the divisions.
(They're on a different format, so 12 rounds not 11.).

Looks a nice event in a nice, central venue. Hope it goes well. No Go, Shogi etc?

MartinCarpenter wrote:Had me double checking the fixture list for a second there There isn't a major Yorkshire League clash, just one of the divisions.
(They're on a different format, so 12 rounds not 11.).

Looks a nice event in a nice, central venue. Hope it goes well. No Go, Shogi etc?

That's good news! No Shogi or Go, though I have run a couple of Shogi events in the past and will suggest this to the organisers. I'm working on bringing Exchange Chess to a venue soon

Andrew Moore had fun at Birmingham judging by these videos;

http://youtu.be/RU1hCOU_btI

http://youtu.be/x2EtIFFKOFw

Would love to have had more notice so we could have advertised it better. However, we have advertised it on the Yorkshire site and through social media so I hope it will be a success.
Sadly I have other commitments this weekend.

I approve of this event's being on the weekend of International Tabletop Gaming Day.

(In case you're wondering: I'm not going to it; I'm going to a boardgaming day in Exeter instead.)

There’s a fair number of chess hustlers that hang around near the big boards at the front of the town hall, someone will have to go round and tell them to come round the back, though I wonder how many can come up with the entry fee

Where will the Liverpool event be held?