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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
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
… 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
Gibtelecom Masters 2010
http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com/gib2010/index.html
Congratulations to England’s Mickey Adams who won the tournament after a rapidplay play-off between the top 4 highest placed players on tie-break. There was a massive tie on 7.5/10 involving Mickey, Etienne Bacrot, Sergei Movsesian, Francisco Vallejo Pons, Gata Kamsky, Jan Gustafsson, Chanda Sandipan, Geetha Narayanan Gopal & Alex Lenderman. The top four on tie-break then played a semi-final and final with Mickey overcoming Gustafsson in an armageddon game after winning the 2nd game to tie the match at 1-1. He then defeated Vallejo 1.5-0.5 in the final, winning a controlled first game with white before achieving a winning position in game 2 which although it got messy towards the end was still in Mickey’s favour and he could have easily played on but was naturally happy to repeat moves and therefore win the match in an ending with an extra piece for a couple of pawns.
Aside from Mickey, the leading English scores were as follows: Jon Speelman finished on 7/10, Jovanka Houska 6 and Terry Chapman, Chris Fegan and Anthony Stebbings 5.5. Congratulations also to Philip Tozer who defeated GM Ketevan Arakhamia with black in round 5.
Read more — International Round Up 09/02/10 – Lawrence Cooper
The Turkish Chess Federation has prepared eleven different logos for the 2012 World Chess Olympiad. Seven of them have been shortlisted and a webpage prepared for a worldwide voting contest. Which logo do you want for the Istanbul Olympiad? Vote now and win a prize!
Voting Page (voting will end on the 31st March 2010)
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
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
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
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!
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