Manchester Chess Federation Founded 1890

Caplin British Championship finals online commentray from GM Matthew Sadler and WIM Natasha Regan Round 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBPDMModWQs&t=559s Pairings round 2 http://chess-results.com/tnr543516.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=2... Round 2 commentary will be live from around 7pm GMT time tonight. Live games round 3 https://www.chess.com/events/2020-british-online-championship There will be a Christmas break till the 27th December when the games will resume. at 7pm GMT.

The Caplin British Online Championships will take place over two weeks from 18th December 2020 to 3rd January 2021.

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/british-online-chess-championships/

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/covid-19-latest/

November 2020 online ratings are out. https://englishchessonline.org.uk/monthly-rating/

A big thanks to Mick Norris for updating them. https://www.manchesterchess.com/history-of-the-mcf

Live Games https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/champions-chess-tour-skilling-open-2020-prelims/1/1/1

Live Commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1nDDgCAHfM&feature=emb_title GM Peter Leko and IM Tania Sachdev

The time control is 15 minutes for all moves, with a 10-second increment from move 1. No draw offers are allowed before move 40. The top 8 players will also be invited back for the next event on the Tour. Official website: https://championschesstour.com/

Players in the event https://championschesstour.com/#line-up

you can also watch it on TV  if you have Eurosport.

Lots of events taking place   https://www.englishchess.org.uk/british-online-chess-championships/

Manchester Junior Chess

4NCL and Junior 4NCL

October – December 2020

 Manchester entered a number of teams in the 4NCL and Junior 4NCL

including our own Manticores and club teams from Bolton & Worsley and

Urmston.

 Manchester Junior Chess entered five teams (nearly thirty children) in the

Junior 4NCL and three teams in the 4NCL (seventeen children).

 Children were drawn from a range of MCF clubs including:

1. Heywood

2. Bolton

3. Worsley

4. Three C’s

 In the 4NCL our final positions were:

Manchester Junior A team 3 rd in Division 4

Manchester Junior B team 8 th in Division 4

Manchester Junior C team 8 th in Division 5

There were six divisions. While the B and C Teams found life challenging (they

usually had an average 400 grading point difference) everyone scored and I saw no

games in which we looked as if we had stumbled into the wrong room.

 In the J4NCL our final positions were:

Manchester Junior A 2 nd in Division 1

Manchester Junior B 1 st in Division 3 In the finals.

Manchester Junior C 2 nd in Division 3

Manchester Junior D 49 th in Division 4

Manchester Junior E 55 th in Division 4

J4NCL played 10 plus 15; 4NCL played 45 plus 10.

Big Congratulations to all the children and thanks to their parents.

NEXT SEASON STARTS IN JANUARY AND I THINK WE COULD ADD ANOTHER

TEAM IN EACH TOURNAMENT. For the J4NCL, children with grades around

100 to 140 would find it an interesting challenge. For the 4NCL a similar range,

but children who want to play Standard rather than Rapidplay. I am particularly

interested in children with grades over 160 and we could compete in a higher

division.

Finally I attach a game  http://view.chessbase.com/cbreader/2020/11/20/Game633916812.html  between Freddie W. against Petra Fink Nunn (2042). Freddie

lost (probably his opponent had stronger seconds) but for an eleven year old facing a

very challenging match he answered most of the problems set for him from move 2

GM Magnus Carlsen Online Champions Chess Tour to be shown on Eurosport.Commentary on Eurosport TV with English GM David Howell and English IM Jovanka Houska

https://www.eurosport.co.uk/chess/eurosport-to-screen-champions-chess-tour-across-europe-and-asia_sto7981371/story.shtml