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| London Junior Chess Championships - U8’S, U12’S, U16’S & U21’S, 28-30 December 2003 [7/1/04] (updated 8/1/04) London Christmas Congress, 28-30 December 2003 [7/1/04] (updated 8/1/04) Central London Rapidplay, 14 December 2003 [7/1/04] CCF Christmas Congress, 20-21 December 2003 [7/1/04] Knowsley Quick Play, 7 December 2003 [7/1/04] 5th Ormskirk Rapidplay, 19 October 2003 [7/1/04] 50th Hertfordshire Chess Association Congress, 6-7 December 2003 [17/12/03] London Junior Chess Championships (U10's & U14's), 13-14 December 2003 [16/12/03] Boston Manor Rapidplay, 13 December 2003 [15/12/03] London Open, 13-14 December
2003 [15/12/03] Nuneaton Congress, 7 December 2003 [11/12/03] Bury (Manchester) Rapidplay, 7 December 2003 [8/12/03] Kilkenny Congress, 28-30 November 2003 [8/12/03] Oxford University Rapidplay,
29 November 2003 [5/12/03] Central London Congress, 29-30 November 2003 [5/12/03] Preston Congress, 28-30 November 2003 [3/12/03] 4th Royal Beacon Seniors Congress, 17-21 November 2003 [3/12/03] CCF Open Rapidplay, 29th November 2003 [2/12/03] Royal Grammar School Guildford Chess Tournament, 22-23 November 2003 [1/12/03] 38th Torbay League Congress, 21-23 November 2003 [27/11/03] Preston Congress (Friday 28 - Sunday 30 November) willl be broadcasting live games from the congress onto the internet. They will be shown on the Blackpool Chess Conference website, so the link will be www.blackpoolchess.org.uk, then follow the link to Preston Live Games. The congress website is www.mpeacock.demon.co.uk/chess/congress.html Attention British Seniors: there are now a substantial number of events available for seniors in the chess calendar, click here for a summary. Players eligible are those born before 1 January 1944 (male) 1 January 1954 (female for World and European events). [24/11/03] Chess World Record... A new competition will be starting in The Times
from 6 December to 3 January. Details of the Winning Move competition
are as follows: Basildon Rapidplay, 16 November
2003 [24/11/03] Braille Chess Association's International Autumn Tournament, 14-16 November 2003 [24/11/03] (updated with photos 2/12/03) 50th Richmond Rapidplay, 9 November 2003 [24/11/03] English Deaf Chess Association
31st Chess Congress, 8-9 November 2003 Hampshire Congress, 7-9 November 2003 [11/11/03] Bury St Edmunds Congress, 1-2 November 2003 [10/11/03] Lancaster & Morcambe Rapidplay, 2 November 2003 [7/11/03] Robert Ward Memorial
Rapidplay (formerly Wolverhampton Rapidplay), 1 November 2003
[4/11/03] NJCA Kings Congress, 1 November 2003 [4/11/03] Hull Congress, 31 October - 2 November 2003 [4/11/03] Glasgow Congress, 31 October - 2 November 2003 [4/11/03] Can you play chess? If the answers is 'yes' why not go along to Wellington College, Crowthorne, on Saturday 21st February where Andrew Martin, International Chess Master, will attempt to beat the world record for simultaneous chess games! Click here for more info... [3/11/03] Scarborough International Congress, 24-26 October 2003 [29/10/03] 29th Guernsey International Chess Festival, 19-25 October 2003 [29/10/03] Chess in Parliament: on Tuesday 28 October at 2.30pm the House of Lords will be discussing, amoung other things, "how the recent initiative of the Department for Education and Skills to promote chess in schools and colleges will be developed and implemented". Go to www.parliamentlive.tv or www.bbc.co.uk/bbcparliament for more information. National Chess Week, 20-26 October [24/10/03] Buckinghamshire Junior Congress , 12 October 2003 [24/10/03] Metropolitan Congress, 11-12 October 2003 [24/10/03] West Wales Congress, 10-12 October 2003 [24/10/03] Manchester Chess Federation Autumn Congress, 27-28 September 2003 [16/10/03] Monarch Assurance International, 27 September - 5 October 2003 [14/10/03] Leamington Rapidplay, 14 September 2003 [14/10/03] CCF Rapidplay, 4 October 2003 [13/10/03] Chess Challenge: Ray Dolan reports on this match between himself and Richard Shepherd MP, held in Walsall Wood on 4 October 2003 [13/10/03] Northumberland Congress, 26-28 September 2003 [9/10/03] 4NCL News [7/10/03] Obituary: Tony Bridson, who was the Isle of Man Tournament Administrator, sadly died today. [2/10/03] Central London Rapidplay, 21 September 2003 [1/10/03] Richmond Rapidplay, 14 September 2003 [1/10/03] Braintree Congress, 13-14 September 2003 [30/9/03] Grangemouth Congress, 12-14 September [26/9/03] Leek Congress, 12-14 September 2003 [19/9/03] Obituary: We sadly report the death of Norman
R Oliver who died peacefully on Sunday aged 59. Norman had been Secretary
and Treasurer of The London Chess League for more than 10 years, and it
was a mark of his absolute competency and the respect that clubs held
for him that there were almost no appeals against his decisions during
his long tenure. Obituary: David Parr died in August totally
unexpectedly of natural causes at the age of 58, although still active...competitively
in the Horsham area and when he was at his best he was rated approximately
2350 internationally and had a fine understanding of the game. South Wales Autumn Congress [15/9/03] Kasparov will be at the London Chess Centre on 21st October for a book signing go to www.chess.co.uk/gkvisit2003 for more info... [11/9/03] CCF Autumn Congress, 6-7 September 2003 [9/9/03] UK Chess Challenge Terafinal - Press Release (pdf file) [9/9/03] Chorley Chess Congress, 23-25 August 2003 [2/9/03] Hereford Rapidplay, 24 Aug 2003 [1/9/03] Thanet Congress, 15-17 August 2003 [1/9/03] CCF Blitz, 25 August 2003 - A field of 32
players competed in the first quick play Grand Prix event of the new season.
Being a Blitz, scores were multiplied by 1, but being an open they were
multiplied by 5 for the Grand Prix. It was a 7 round event with 10 minutes
each on the clock and the prize winners were as follows: UK Chess Challenge Press Release (pdf file) [29/8/03] Berks & Bucks Congress, 23-25 August 2003 [29/8/03] Your Chance to Play Chess Against a Grandmaster: Every Saturday throughout September, October and November, a Grandmaster will be playing blitz chess against visitors to the exhibition The Art of Chess at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House. Participating Grandmasters include John Nunn, Danny King, John Emms, Jonathan Levitt and Chris Ward. Everyone, whatever their ability, is welcome to come and test their skill for free - just drop in between 2 pm and 5pm any Saturday to the Seamen's Hall in the South Building of Somerset House. Each game will last approximately 10 minutes. The programme is as follows: Braille Chess Association British Championship, 9-16 August 2003 [29/8/03] Central London Rapidplay, 17 August 2003 [29/8/03] Hilton Blackpool Rapidplay, 10 August 2003 [29/8/03] Lancashire Chess Festival, 3-10 August 2003 [15/8/03] The Simpson's/Staunton Anniversary Chess Tournament, 24 August - 1 September 2003. To celebrate its 175th anniversary as the home of chess and to honour its famous patron Howard Staunton, Simpson's-in-the-Strand will be hosting the first Simpson's/Staunton Anniversary Chess Tournament ... [14/8/03] UK Chess Challenge Press Release (pdf file) [8/8/03] Barnet Congress, 12-13 July 2003 [6/8/03] BCF Management Board & Council News Middlesex Congress, 5-6 July 2003 CCF Open Rapidplay, 19 July 2003 [21/7/03] Middlesbrough Congress, 11-13 July 2003 [21/7/03] Smith & Williamson Young Masters, 9-17 July 2003 at Millfield School, Somerset [18/7/03] The Under-21 Chess Championship for the blind,
organised by the Braille Chess Association, took place at RNIB New College,
Worcester, 9-11 July 2003. It was played on the Swiss system over
5 rounds. It was a very close competition with many exciting games. The
eventual winner was New College student Richard Allen, with 4.5/5 (four
wins and one draw). Runner up was Michael Sharkey on 4, followed by Alastair
Irving 3.5, Richard Claridge and Robin Williams 2.5, and Adam Pritchard
and Jonathan Wapples 1.5. 1,800 Turn Out For British Land National Gigafinal... [17/7/03] Central London Rapidplay, 13 July 2003 [16/7/03] 48th Richmond Rapidplay, 22 June 2003 [9/7/03] Chess in Pieces - 21st Centrury Art, is documentary which will be broadcast on Monday 7 July at 8.30 pm on BBC4 (tv). It looks at how chess has challenged some of the sharpest minds in the world and driven its champions to obsession and insanity, and how, at the height of the Cold War, the board became a battlefield for rival superpowers to thrash out their intellectual superiority.The film illustrates how chess was a universal language which brought together artists in exile during the second world war, and continues to inspire even in the cynical commercial art world of today [2/7/03] David Howell made another giant step in his chess career when he comfortably held Sergei Karjakin , the youngest Grandmaster in the world, to a draw in an exhibition match held to launch The Art of Chess exhibition at the Gilbert Collection, Somerset House...[1/7/03] Central London Rapidplay, 29 June 2003 [1/7/03] Manchester Summer Congress, 27-29 June 2003 [1/7/03] MacDonald De Montford Midland Open Championships, 20-22 June 2003 [27/6/03] Peter Turner (BCF Director of Junior Chess & Education) has released the BCF Selection list for 2003... [25/6/03] Heywood Congress, 21-22 June 2003 [24/6/03] Yeovil Congress, 20-22 June 2003 [24/6/03] Stewarton Bonnet Guild Chess Allegro, 15 June 2003 [23/6/03] Silence in Parliament! Order was called at the House of Commons on Wednesady evening (18 June) and debate was commenced, yet for the majority of the next hour barely a word was uttered. The fact that the debate was between 6 Members of Parliament and 6 Teenagers may make that sound even more unbelievable... [20/6/03] The Art of Chess at the Gilbert Collection: An exhibition of Chess Sets by Major Artists from Fabergé to Hirst, 28 June - 28 September 2003 [19/6/03] Forthcoming Event: Charity British Simultaneous Record Attempt, 9 August 2003 ... more info [17/6/03] South Lakes Open Congress, 6-8 June 2003 [17/6/03] Frodsham Rapidplay, 1 June 2003 [9/6/03] CCF Rapidplay, 31 May 2003 [9/6/03] Ilford Congres, 24-26 May 2003 [9/6/03] West of Scotland Championship, 23-25 May 2003 [9/6/03] Hartlepool Congress, 21-23 May 2003 [9/6/03] Forthcoming event: Under 18 Girls Counties Championship, 21 June 2003 [6/6/03] 47th Richmond Rapidplay, 18 May 2003 [28/5/03] CCF Open Blitz, 26 May 2003 [27/5/03] Central London Rapidplay, 25 May 2003 [27/5/03] Walsall Kipping Rapidplay, 10 May 2003 [27/5/03] ChessBrian announces that esteemed Chess Organiser Peter Wilson has joined the project...click here to read more and find out about ChessBrian. The ChessBrain project is dedicated to creating the worlds largest chess computer by utilizing the combined processing power of interconnected machines throughout the Internet. [23/5/03] Frome Congress, 9-11 May 2003 [23/5/03] Rhyl Congress, 16-18 May 2003 [23/3/05] Norfolk Congress, 25-26 April 2003 [23/5/03] Nottingham Congress, 25-27 April 2003 [22/5/03] National Chess Junior Squad Championships, 25-27 April 2003 [14/5/03] Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship (WCBCSC) is run annually by the British Chess Problem Society (BCPS). The 2003/2004 competition has now started, click here for more information and the starter problem. [7/5/03] CCF Blitz, 5 May 2003 [6/5/03] 21st South Herts Congress, 12-13 April 2003 [6/5/03] Central London Rapidplay, 27 April 2003 [30/4/03] David Howell has won the award for Best Young Chess Player at this year's Britain's Brilliant Prodigies [29/4/03] 3rd Oxford University Congress, 26-27 April 2003 [29/4/03] West of England Championship Congress, 18-21 April 2003 [24/4/03] Bolton Easter Congress, 18-20 April 2003 [24/3/03] Obituary: Peter Wason, who has died aged 78, was a cognitive psychologist as well as being a correspondence chess International Master. [23/4/03] Maurice Brown Rapidplay, 19 April 2003 [23/4/03] 110th Scottish Chess Championships incorporating the Edinburgh Congress, 5-13 April 2003 [17/4/03] CCF Rapidplay, 5 April 2003 [9/4/03] Letchworth One Day Congress, 30 March 2003 [7/4/03] Huddersfield Congress, 28-30 March 2003 [7/4/03] British Land UK Chess Challenge Report [4/4/03] Chess Scotland Team Competitions, 29 March 2003 [1/4/03] British Blitz Championships, 23 March 2003 [1/4/03] Braille Chess Association's AGM Tournament, 21-23 March 2003 [27/3/03] Lincolnshire U14 & U19 Team Championships, 22 March 2003 [26/3/03] Kings Head Rapidplay, 15 March 2003 [26/3/03] 27th Blackpool Chess Conference, 7 - 9 March 2003 [19/3/03] Portsmouth Congress, 21-23 February 2003 [19/3/03] Bunratty Chess Festival, 21-23 February 2003 [14/3/03] Obituary: Lim Kok Ann [11/3/03] Doncaster Congress, 28 February - 2 March 2003 [6/3/03] Does your club wish to play in the 4NCL ? Click here for more information... [5/3/03] East Devon Congress, 28 February - 2 March 2003 [5/3/03] CCF Junior Grand Prix - Round 2, Saturday 1 March 2003 [3/3/03] Nottinghamshire Rapidplay, 23 February 2003 [26/2/03] Jersey Festival of Chess, 16-22 February 2003 [26/2/03] Leyland Rapidplay, 17 February 2003 [26/2/03] BWCA National Girl's Championships, 8-9 February 2003 [20/2/03] Yateley Manor International, 24 January - 3 February 2003 [20/2/03] Central London Rapidplay, 16 February 2003 [19/2/03] 4th Dudley Congress, 8-9 February 2003 [10/2/04] Bentley Motors: Crewe Congress, 7-9 February 2003 [17/2/03] Kidlington Congress, 1-2 February 2003 [10/2/03] Vernon Stockport Rapidplay, 2 February 2003 [10/2/03] Coulsdon Rapidplay, 8 February 2003 [10/2/03] Obituary: Eriks Tregeris [4/2/03] Cleveland Congress, 24-26 January 2003 [31/1/03] Birmingham Winter Congress, 4-5 January 2003 [29/1/03] Lancashire Junior Congress, 18 January 2003 [29/1/03] Central London Rapidplay, 19 January 2003 [22/1/03] Coulsdon Open Blitz, 18 January 2003 [22/1/03] Richmond Rapidplay, 12 January 2003 [21/1/03] Heywood Rapidplay, 12 January 2003 [20/1/03] Fulprint York Congress, 3-5 January 2003 [20/1/03] |
England will be competing in the European Community Youth Chess Championships 12 & 14 in Graz, Austria from 22-29 November, for more info go to: ECU; Austrian Chess Federation; or www.chess003.at Chess news from ICC Scolastic Chess Tournament:
at this moment the results of the sixth round of the tournament 2003 are: Garry Kasparov v X3D Fritz for the title of Man-Machine World Champion [4/11/03] Results from the European Team Championship, 11-20 October 2003 [24/10/03] The first Samba cup took place in Denmark 10-19 October. 1-4= Peter Nielsen (who will be defending his title in the Hastings Premier), Curt Hansen (both Denmark), Darmen Sadvakasov (Kazakhstan), Nigel Short all 5.5/9. Nigel had a rating performance of 2712 against his current rating of 2701. The 7th Essen Open took place in the Netherlands 11-18 October. 1-2= Zviad Izoria (Georgia), Ernesto Inarkiev (Russia) 7/9. 3-5= Nicholas Pert, Ian Rogers, Alexander Motylev 6.5/9. Nicholas had a rating performance of 2668 against his current rating of 2488. This should be sufficient to take his rating over 2500 and the ex-World Under-18 champion will finally be awarded hi GM title, hopefully in Greece. The World Chess Olympiad venue has been switched to Majorca, the dates are 14-30 October 2004. Organisers are negotiating with Tour Operators to set up special deals for holidays to coincide with the Olympiad. [22/10/03] European Club Cup Men & Women 2003 - Report from the Barbican Chess Club...you can also visit the official at www.venizelia.gr/ecc2003 [9/10/03] The official website of the European Team Chess Championships is now open - www.etcc.chessbg.com The 1st European Internet Championship will take place from October 20, 2003 until November 09, 2003. The organizers are the ECU the ChessBase GmbH. Blitz-chess will be played. The tournament is divided into eight qualifiers, one candidates' tournament and one final. All qualifiers, the candidates and the final will be played on the playchess.com server. The English teams for the European Team Championship
taking place in Plovdiv, Bulgaria from 11-20 October 2003 were announced
on Friday (19/9/03). They are: European Club Cup Men & Women 2003 - The chess champions league in Crete 52 Men teams & 18 Women teams will take part in the top chess event. The Organising Commitee of the 19th European Club Cup 2003 and the 8th European Club Cup for Women 2003 inform you that the official site is now available: www.venizelia.gr/ecc2003, that will be daily updated. For more details, you can contact: thebest@caissa.gr Attention Seniors - there are now a substantial number of events available for seniors in the chess calendar, click here for a summary [15/8/03] 27th World Chess Solving Championship took place in Moscow from 26th July to 2nd August. Russia took the team title with 158½ points from a possible 180, ahead of the defending champions Germany, who scored 149, and Finland, who scored 139. The British team, who were sponsored by Winton Capital Management, finished 10th with 128 points (23 teams competed) [6/8/03] The results of the starter round of the Winton Capital British Chess Solving Championship are now available at www.bstephen.freeuk.com/0304/bcsc.html [26/8/03] FIDE has announced the World Chess Championship for September/October 2003. Kasparov vs Ponomariov will take place in Yalta, Ukraine on September 18th (opening ceremony) to October 7th, 2003. The twelve match days are September 19 & 20, September 22 & 23, September 25th & 26th, September 28th and 29th, October 1st & 2nd and October 4th & 5th. The closing ceremony will take place on Monday 6th October, or in the case of a draw, Monday will be a free day and October 7th, 2003 will be the tiebreak and closing ceremony. Further information will follow on the FIDE website [6/8/03] The Glorney & Faber Cups 2003, 14-17 July 2003,
Prague World Junior Championships in Azerbaijan, 21 June - 4 July 2003. Information about this tournament can also be found on the FIDE website: www.fide.com/news.asp?id=146 [24/6/03] 4th European Individual Championships, Turkey: Luke McShane has finished on 8 points and qualifies for the next FIDE World Championships. British schools participating ICC Scolastic Chesstournament [9/6/03] European Individual Championships (which includes the Women's Championship) has now been rescheduled. Mediterranean Chess Association Press Release [4/4/03] Chess Festival Easter in Crete 2003, 18-24 April 2003 [4/4/03] European Individual Women’s Championship, 29 March -12 April. This event has now been postponed...click above for more information. 6th Tanta Open, 7-17 April 2003, Egypt [14/3/03] European Senior Team Championship, 23 February - 1 March 2003 - Report by Stewart Reuben [4/3/03] Position for Chess Coach in Portugal [4/3/03] European Club Cup, 27 September - 5 October 2003 [24/2/03] The Linares Supertournament 2003 (21st February - 9th March) includes participants such as Garry Kasparov RUS 2847, Vladimir Kramnik RUS 2807, Viswanathan Anand IND 2753, Peter Leko HUN 2736, Ruslan Ponomariov UKR 2734, Francisco Vallejo Pons ESP 2629 and Teimour Radjabov AZE 2624. www.ruschess.com will give online transmission of the Linares Supertournament games and their annotations by Saint-Petersburg Grandmasters. [19/2/03] World Chess Champion Ruslan Ponomariov reaffirmed his willingness to defend his title against World no 1 rated player Garry Kasparov...click here to read more [17/2/03] Gibraltar Chess Festival, 28 January - 6 February 2003 [18/11/02] {Updated 7/2/03} Press Release [20/1/03] — 1st World Ranked Garry Kasparov v World Champion among computer programs 'Deep Junior' [23/12/02] {Updated 27/1/03} European Senior Team Championship, 23 February - 1 March - the BCF Teams have been announced [21/1/03] |