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. Gary Hogan won again, this…
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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 Vladyslav Kolpakov (Ukraine) 5/6 IM…
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 about to take place. Boards…
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 Marcin Tazbir; and on board…
IBCA 2024 – reports from Owen Phillips
The last round saw some long tussles, particularly on boards 2 – 5, but GM Marcin Tazbir of Poland disposed of his opponent relatively quickly to finish top on 7½/9…
World Amateur Championship 2024 registration is open
All FIDE Member Federations and eligible players with FIDE rating under 2300 are invited to participate in the FIDE World Amateur Chess Championship 2024. The competition will take place in…
IBCA European Open Chess Championship 2024
Owen Phillips writes — From 15/25 June, Gary Hogan of the BCA and Witney chess clubs will play in his long-awaited second major international FIDE event when he participates alongside…
ECF Manager for Accessible Chess
The ECF is delighted to announce that Surrey player Owen Phillips has been appointed as ECF Manager for Accessible Chess. This is an important appointment for the federation, and means…
IBCA World Individual Chess – final scores and thoughts from Owen Phillips
The medallists were — Gold and World Champion GM Marcin Tazbir (Poland) 8/9! Silver and a good defence of his title IM Predrag Nikac (Montenegro) 7.5/9 Bronze on tie break…
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 say that things have so…
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, the ancient base of the…
UK Open Blitz 2023 entrants
List of entries as at Fri 06 Oct 2023. London 171 entries Num Name Fedn Club ECF Blitz FIDE Blitz ECF RP FIDE RP ECF Std FIDE Std TR 1…
Congratulations to English Juniors – updated 4/5/22
Just in – from ECF President Dominic Lawson To the England Team Juniors On behalf of the English Chess Federation, I am writing to congratulate each and every one of…
Chessable English Seniors 2022 – entrants list
Over 50 Championship Num Name Club Fedn FIDE ECF TR Bye Req. 1 Hebden, Mark L GM Syston ENG 2448 2533 2533 2 Arkell, Keith C GM Cheddleton…