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Passwords update

All members of the ECF and congress organisers …
Two areas of the site have been password-protected – the Chess Moves page and the Membership List, which are available to ECF members and congress organisers. Please bear with us through this transitional period by emailing your requests to this address – webmaster@englishchess.org.uk – or calling us on 01424 775222 - with your name and membership number and/or the name of the congress concerned. We will email the relevant passwords to you or relay them by telephone if you prefer – please state which in your email

Chess for Schools Project – Volunteers Needed


We are looking for volunteers to help with the ECF’s ambitious Chess for Schools project. If you can spare an hour or even a few hours, we’d love to hear from you.
Volunteers can help in two ways:
1 By picking up some chess sets and delivering them to schools in your area. You can pick up 1 set or 100 – every little helps!
2 By sorting chess pieces into chess sets.
The chess sets and chess pieces are located at Holloid Plastics Factory in Basingstoke, Hampshire – the full address is below.
If you’d like to help, please contact Kirstie Lapworth on:
07805 515732 (mob), 01424 775 222
Email: Kirstie@englishchess.org.uk
Holloid Plastics Ltd
Stephenson Road
Houndmills Industrial Estate
Basingstoke
Hampshire
RG21 6XR

If you are reading this ...

… welcome to the new ECF website. The task of moving all of the information and details over to this new site was gargantuan, and because of the urgency of the Certificate of Merit initiative hurrying the process along, things may have been missed (this certainly applies to entry forms – please send us links). Please bear in mind that this is in no way personal. If you check for something that is important to you and/or us and it is altered or missing, PLEASE let me know. The new site has a much more stable basis and is a huge improvement on the previous site, which occasionally almost drowned in its own complaints.

Nothing is set in stone – all we need is the relevant information and when necessary, some constructive criticism and we can forge the new site into the resource it should always have been
- Andrew Walker | Webmaster | ECF

Give us your lost, your broken … links


Clubs, associations, leagues … if your website has moved, if your email has changed, if your name has altered, however slightly, then let us know. We want our links to be right, it does no-one any good for things to be broken or half-working – and we’re ready to make any changes you send us

Barnet Chess Congress - from Malcolm Harding

Read more — Barnet Chess Congress – from Malcolm Harding

From Ian Watson - European Chess Solving Championship

You may be interested to know that this year’s chess solving championship of Europe is taking place in England in April. I am handling the publicity for the event on behalf of the organisers The British Chess Problem Society.  British competitors will probably include such well-known OTB players (who are also problem experts) as Nunn, Mestel and McNab. Attached is a Press Release and I would be pleased to give you any more information you want. The website is www.bstephen.me.uk/ecsc2010/home - Email: ian@irwatson.demon.co.uk

Hendon/Golders Green – from Adam Raoof

The next Golders Green Rapidplay is this coming Saturday, 13th February 2010. You can enter online or download and post me an entry form with a cheque.  Use the online entry form to be eligible for the discounted entry fee. Entry online or by post is £15.00, £14.00 for Juniors Under 16, all other entries will be charged £20.00 on the day (£14.00 for Juniors and members of Hendon Chess Club)
A complete list of results from the January event is at http://goldersgreenchess.blogspot.com/

Read more — Hendon/Golders Green – from Adam Raoof

Results - matches played 6th Feb 2010

Click any link below for a results breakdown on matches played on Saturday last …

County Result Open Match Surrey v Middlesex
County Championship Middlesex U140 vs Kent U140
Chess U100 Surrey v Essex
SCCU Open Sussex v Essex
Essex v Sussex U140

Stockport Rapidplay results (unverified)

Read more — Stockport Rapidplay results (unverified)

Hendon Blitz - 4 Feb 2010 - from Adam Raoof

The ‘First Thursday’ Hendon 10 minute Blitz takes place every month on the first Thursday of the month
http://www.hendonchessclub.com
=1st: Phil Makepeace and Jacob Bigio 5/6 and £15 each
=3rd: Mike Bennett (Hendon, £10 for the highest club member), Charlie Fry 4.5/6
Jonathan Ellis, Chris Jones, Robin Haldane, Salvatore Pepe, Shane McCabe 4/6
Daniel Ellis, Albert Ballardini 3.5/6
David Whitehead, Faye Ainscow, Frank Sabin, Graeme Lennard, Ivan Valigurskyy 3/6
Kishan Pattni, David Bluestone, David Iwi, Robert Feather 2.5/6
Jay Unadkat, Alexander Abboud, Steve Goodman, Tony Hulstrom, Ray Pliskin 2/6
Arun Mahtani 1.5/6
Tom Dziedzic 1/6
NEXT WEEK: a four round, graded, 15 minutes per player per game rapidplay starting at 7.30pm.  £10 for non-members, all welcome.  Email me your entry!

At GibTelecom

GOVERNOR OF GIBRALTAR VISITS CHESS FESTIVAL!

Another visitor this week at the Gibtelecom International Chess Festival was the Governor of Gibraltar, Sir Adrian Johns. Like all other guest throughout the past week he was shown around the Masters tournament when it was in session, as well as visiting the new broadcasting facilities at the Archie Suite. He was shown round by tournament organiser Brian Callaghan, while James Humphreys from Tradewise Insurance representing the sponsors. In the main hall he was shown round by David Welch (above)

Meanwhile in Delhi ...

Dear chess friends,
Please find attached the Circular for the Commonwealth Chess Championship 2010. All players from Commonwealth countries are most welcome to take part in the Championship, taking place in New Delhi from 9-19th May 2010
There are special conditions for Grandmasters and International Masters
Bharat Singh Chauhan
Honorary Secretary, Delhi Chess Association