Rhodes – rounds seven and eight from Owen Phillips
Leaders after round seven — GM Marcin Tazbir 6.5; IM Predrag Nikac 6; FM Alexey Streltsov 5.5; Yuri Bibikov 5.5; then ten players on 5….
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Rhodes – rounds six and seven from Owen Phillips
Briefly, as we have the IBCA Congress to attend and vote in as well as prep for round seven — GM Marcin Tazbir (Poland) 5.5/6…
Entries open to Hastings!
The Caplin Hastings International Chess Congress this year celebrates its 97th edition, and will take place from 28th December to 7th January, 2024. The organising…
Rhodes – round four from Owen Phillips
The top boards in round four showed up just before the off – seemingly matching the tenseness of the situation, with such key clashes just…
Rhodes – report three from Owen Phillips
STOP PRESS! Round Four Looks like a very important round as the current World Champion IM Predrag Nikac is facing off with Black against GM…
IBCA World Individual Championship – second report from Owen Phillips
For pictures from the event and a particularly useful post explaining the specialised board setup some players us, follow this link — https://www.facebook.com/chessingreece Sad to…
RIP Geoff Gammon
It is with great sadness that I need to let you know of the death of FIDE Arbiter Geoff Gammon. Geoff was a great arbiter…
IBCA World Individual Championship – from Owen Phillips
This is a forerunner of the reports that will be winging their way to the ECF in coming weeks from the wonderful island of Rhodes,…
Clubs & Congress Insurance 2023/24
Clubs and other chess organisations can now renew their insurance through Green Insurance Group by using the renewal/application form link below. All applications and payments…
III Mindsports GM Super Swiss Open 2023 report
It is with great pleasure to announce that the Mindsports Grandmasters Open has been a success! The third edition of titled tournaments at the London…
First Saturday Budapest 7-17 Oct 2023 – GM/GM candidate vacancies
All English 2400+ ELO players – there is a vacancy in this tournament for one GM and one GM candidate. If you’re interested here are…
ECF 2023 Award Winners announced
This year saw a large number of entries for the awards. The winners have now been announced. Together with their citations, all the winning entries…
FIDE World Amateur Championship 2023 – registration deadline extended
The Organizing Committee of the FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship announces that the registration deadline has been extended to September 28, 2023. The competition will take…
England Women’s Team Announcement
We are pleased to announce that England Women’s team for the European Team Chess Championship is — IM Jovanka Houska 2340 IM Harriet Hunt 2316…