Manchester Chess Federation Founded 1890

Manchester Junior Chess

Junior 4 Nations Chess League

18/19th January 2020

South Normanton

Manchester entered two teams in the J4NCL, one each in the FIDE rated A Division and one in the ECF Rated B Division.

The A Team came third which was an outstanding result given that we were including two very new players to the FIDE rated tournament.

Sam Parry Leek & Cheddleton

Kyle Pelling Heywood

Edward Jackson Three C’s

Ethan Gardi...

Gibraltar Masters 2020 starts Many top English GMS in action including Adams and Jones. Also 3Cs GM Stephen Gordon is playing.  Commentary live daily from 2pm GMT. with GM David Howell and WIM Fiona Stelli Antoni.

Twitch TV Live commentary  https://www.twitch.tv/gibchess

Live Commentary https://www.gibchess.com/live-commentary

Live games https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/gibraltar-masters-2020/2/1/1

Players https://chess-results...

http://www.stockportchessclub.org/rapidplay.html

Prizes!

OPEN Open to all

MAJOR For players graded below 170

INTERMEDIATE For players graded below 140

MINOR For players graded below 110

 Each player will be allowed 30 minutes for all moves. Players can have a First Round ½ point bye if requested at time of entry.

In each there will be prizes of £140, £90 and £40 along with grading prize of £40.

The highest scoring ...

MANCHESTER JUNIOR CHESS

Manchester EPSCA Team Trial

Every year Manchester enters teams in the EPSCA Associations Championships. There are three teams, Under 11, Under 9 and an Under 11 Girls team. Children who wish to represent Manchester need to either attend the Manchester Trials or register to play.

Manchester Juniors Trial

Where: Cleveland School

425 Chorley New Road, Bolton, BL1 5DH

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Super strong 13 round all play all starts to day.  Games start 12:30 pm GMT

Live games Masters https://www.tatasteelchess.com/live/live-games

Livw games Challengers https://www.tatasteelchess.com/live/live-games-challengers

Players in the Masters https://www.tatasteelchess.com/players/masters/all-masters

Players in the Challengers https://www.tatasteelchess.com/players/challengers/all-challengers

Live Commentary GM Jan Gusti and GM Peter Svidler...

MANCHESTER JUNIOR CHESS

ANNUAL OVERSEAS CHESS TOUR

SHANGHAI JULY 2020

Following successful visits over the last ten years to Poland (x2), Germany, Eire (x2) Spain and Russia (x2), Manchester Junior Chess has agreed with the Shanghai Ex Pat Chess Academy for a summer tour to Shanghai in July 2020.

The itinerary would include chess matches against children in Shanghai, an open Rapidplay and some social chess against our hosts. There will also be opportunities for seeing...

The ECF will be running an ECF Arbiters course at the Daventry Court Hotel, Sedgemoor Way, Daventry NN11 0SG on 15th – 16th February 2020. The lecturers will be Adrian Elwin and Alex Holowczak. For more details and registration go to https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-arbiter-course-registration/

Congratulations to Bolton Chess Club's IM Joe Mcphillips 4.5/5 who won the sponsored Telford Open,outright this weekend. Beating IM Ameet Ghasi 2497 in the final round.To score 4.5/5 winning £1000. Open results. http://www.shrewsburychessclub.org/Tournaments/2020/SC2020/PairingsResults/Open/round5results.html   All Tournament results http://www.shrewsburychessclub.org/live-chess/

Women's World Chess Championship game 1 GM Alexandra Goryachkina vs GM Ju Wenjun GM Nigel short and WGM Zhang Xiaowen live now with commentary https://www.twitch.tv/fide_chess

Official website https://wwcm2020.fide.com/

Caplin Hastings international Masters 2019-2020 starts today. strong field this year GM David Howell is number 1 seed pairings round 1 can be found here.

http://chess-results.com/tnr468458.aspx?lan=1&art=0

Live games.https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/hastings-masters-2019/1/1/1 14:15 GMT each round.