Manchester Chess Federation Founded 1890

Dear Club Secretary,

The 2021 AGM will be held online and I will send you the zoom link a bit nearer the time.

Meanwhile, if you could let your members know the date of the meeting I would appreciate it.

Thanks and best wishes,

Andrew Shingleton - General Secretary MCF

Live games https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/sochi-fide-world-cup-2021/1/6/3

Live games https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/sochi-fide-womens-world-cup-2021/1/11/3

Live commentary GM Nigel Short and GM Evgeny Miroshnichenko

https://www.twitch.tv/fide_chess

Live commentary Women's World Cup GM Alexander Shimanov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQDDPejpHWY

4NCL Open Live games Leamington Spa Round 1 https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/4ncl-congress-open-2021/1/1/1

Manchester Juniors and the Four Nations Chess League  During 2020 and 2021 Young People from Manchester or

Manchester Chess Clubs, took part in both the Online 4NCL and

the Online Junior 4NCL. Sixty children have taken part. We had

seven teams in J4NCL and three teams in the 4NCL.

 Teams play on alternate Tuesday evenings (4NCL) and Thursday

evenings (J4NCL).

 The season will start in mid August and go on until Christmas.

 Matches ...

https://www.chess-fest.com/liverpool?fbclid=IwAR0hrYnjyCbAF8EiZ55vQaQ9YJy3kTidP64HGy9Y0lwSMkl5HTehx2H24GA

Magnus Carlsen plays Alireza Firouzja, Hou Yifan & Wesley So as the Goldmoney Asian Rapid, the 7th event on the $1.6 million Meltwater Champions

Online Chess Tour, starts today 12:00 GMT Live Games and lot of new faces playing in the event. https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/meltwater-champions-chess-tour-goldmoney-asian-rapid-2021-prelims/1/1/1

Live commentary with GM Danny King and IM Tania Sachdev https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQc8vUi4nIU

Live co...

Manchester Juniors in an International Online Tournament

Wednesday 23 rd June 2021

Eight teams participated from Russia (Moscow and St Petersburg), Azerbaijan, Riga

(Latvia) and the UK (Manchester and Warwickshire)

Manchester Juniors came fourth having been in contention for second and third for

most of the evening.

Best scores from Aisha Benhamida and Kevin Ye, but very creditable scores also

from Bryony Eccleston, Edward Co...

Manchester Girls took part in the 5 th Inter County Online Tournament. They played in

Division one and came 5 th /7 teams. Best score from Aisha Benhamida

Well done to everyone in the team, Thank you very much for supporting Manchester,

Aisha Benhamida

Bryony Eccleston

Rachel Topping

Rebecca Correa

Thisumi Jayawarna

Tabitha Jordan

Erika Pilditch

Darcy Casserly

Jude Benhamida

1 st Essex

2 nd...

MCF Heaton Cup

The MCF Heaton Cup is an online tournament developed by the MCF to support players wishing to play long games during the pandemic. The tournament also focuses on fun and learning with all the games annotated by the tournament team and shared with participants.

There have been two cycles of the Cup, both played on Lichess, consisting of 1 round per week for six weeks, with the time control of 60 minutes + 15 seconds increment.

The first cycle ran from 24th Augu...

The Superbet Chess Classic is a 10-player classical round-robin taking place in the Sheraton Bucharest Hotel in Bucharest, Romania from 5-14 June 2021. It's the first stage of the 2021 Grand Chess Tour, a series of five events with a total prize fund of $1.275 million. In Bucharest the players receive 90 minutes for 40 moves, followed by 30 minutes to the end of the game, plus a 30-second increment starting from move one.

Official Website https://grandchesstour.org/

Live Gam...