No more e2e4 events?!

[andrew martin]

I'm trying to get to the bottom of this apparently unfortunate situation. I thought these events were successful and well-regarded?


If there are to be no more e2e4 events, why is this? It all seems very sudden.

[E Michael White]

Perhaps Sean could organise them as Chess Scotland or WCU events but played at the same locations in England. At one time consideration was being given by the ECF/BCF to playing the British Championships in France.

[Ljubica Lazarevic]

Given that Sean has single-handedly created some of the most high-quality tournaments available in England, successful for a number of years, it is imperative to find out what has lead to this.

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournament in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

[Sean Hewitt]

Given that Sean has single-handedly created some of the most high-quality tournaments available in England, successful for a number of years, it is imperative to find out what has lead to this.

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournaments in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

Thank you for the kind words. Perhaps you should organise a petition?

Send it to [email protected]

[Ljubica Lazarevic]

You're, welcome, however I'm not entirely sure I like being described as intransigent!

[Carl Hibbard]

Sean, a little more clarification is needed on what is "actually" going on??

[Ljubica Lazarevic]

Carl --> http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... 0&start=30

[Gareth Harley-Yeo]

Given that Sean has single-handedly created some of the most high-quality tournaments available in England, successful for a number of years, it is imperative to find out what has lead to this.

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournaments in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

Thank you for the kind words. Perhaps you should organise a petition?

Send it to [email protected]

yeah, organise one under the WCU... I'm still in credit for 1 congress entry fee

[John Upham]

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournament in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

Can we know what this event was and perhaps more people can avoid it?

[andrew martin]

This is a tragic situation for English Chess. I really do hope a compromise can be found.

[Jon D'Souza-Eva]

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournament in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

Can we know what this event was and perhaps more people can avoid it?

It seems that it was the 4NCL rapidplay: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/livechess ... stable.htm

Ms Lazarevic lost in the last two rounds, to people graded 199 and 204. I suspect that her opinion of the tournament is not entirely unrelated to this fact.

[Ljubica Lazarevic]

It is Miss Lazarevic, and my opinion of the tournament has absolutely no bearing on my poor performance at it. You will find I am not the only person very unsatisfied with the event.

[LozCooper]

Having had to experience the most horrendously organised and administered tournament in my chess-playing history this past weekend, it is critical to encourage tournament organisers like Sean.

Can we know what this event was and perhaps more people can avoid it?

It seems that it was the 4NCL rapidplay: http://www.bcfservices.org.uk/livechess ... stable.htm

Ms Lazarevic lost in the last two rounds, to people graded 199 and 204. I suspect that her opinion of the tournament is not entirely unrelated to this fact.

This strikes me as a rather odd comment to make. It's hard to imagine someone graded 142 basing her judgement of a tournament on losing to two players graded 57 and 62 points above her.

[Carl Hibbard]

This strikes me as a rather odd comment to make. It's hard to imagine someone graded 142 basing her judgement of a tournament on losing to two players graded 57 and 62 points above her.

Not sure on the actually relevance either no

[Rob Thompson]

Complaints about pairings, perhaps? Apart from that, i see no relevance