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The US Chess Championships start's tonight with a very strong field. This year it will be played on- line. With a rapid time control.25) minutes per game, with a five (5)-second increment from move one (G/25+5). 6:00pm GMT start.

Players https://www.uschesschamps.com/2020-us-championships/2020-us-championship/the-field

Live commentary With GM Maurice Ashley GM Yasser Seirawan and WGM Jen Shahade.

 https://www.twitch.tv/stlchessclub

Chessable interview with WFM Sarah Longson https://www.chessable.com/blog/

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A special thanks to John Reyes for picking the team and to all the players, who played and help win the match for Greater Manchester. Indvidual Results can be found at the link. https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/62798

Greater Manchester beat Worcestershire 8.5-3.5 on Saturday October 10th 2020

A Special thanks to John Reyes for the getting the team out. Also to all the players who took part in the online match. Individual results can be found at the link.

https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/63267

Two major junior events forthcoming

Manchester Under 18 Team to play in the ECF Under 18 County Championship

 Saturday 21st November 2020

 All day. Seven round Swiss

Full details at the link https://www.manchesterchess.com/manchester-junior-chess

Saturday 31st October 2020

Manchester Junior Team to play in International On Line Tournament

against teams from St Petrsburg Russia; Imara, Finland; Rybnik, P...

the first undisputed supertournament held over-the-board since March 2020 ! The games start at 17:00 CEST, with GM Vladimir Kramnik & GM Judit Polgar commentating: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/altibox-norway-chess-2020/1/1/1 All players and commentators had to quarantine for Ten days before the event started.

Pairings round 1

Levon Aronian vs Magnus Carlsen

Aryan Tari vs Fabiano Caruana

Jan Duda ...

New September 2020 ECF online rating list is now live on-line. https://englishchessonline.org.uk/monthly-ratings/

Congratulations to GM David Smerdon The Complete Chess Swindler is the ECF Book of the Year 2020. Read Ray Edwards and Sean Marsh's comments on the book at https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-book-of-the-year-2020/