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Notices
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(notice date)
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New Players on LMS
Message to captains
re identifying new players
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30/09/2024
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Minutes of the S&DCA Fixture
Meeting 2024
now available
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21/09/2024
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Winter League Fixtures 2024-25
available
for checking
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10/09/2024
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FIDE Olympiad 2024
with a
Sheffield presence
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09/09/2024
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League Structure for 2024-25
now
with 5 divisions
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09/09/2024
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Minutes of the S&DCA AGM 2024
now
available
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09/09/2024
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ECF Awards 2024
Jonathan
Arnott in the list!
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26/08/2024
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Appeal for County-Match Players
from
Steve Westmoreland
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20/08/2024
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Sheffield Congress 2024
cancelled,
but replaced by a similar event
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14/08/2024
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Paul Blackman
1945-2024;
obituary
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08/08/2024
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S&DCA Annual General
Meeting 2024
Notice
of meeting, including rule-change proposals
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04/08/2024
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ECF Grassroot Chess
Development
Scheme
announced
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16/07/2024
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Time to Enter the Crabb Shield
2024
to be
held on Saturday 20/07/2024
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01/07/2024
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8th Darnall & Handsworth
FIDE-Rated Rapidplay
entry
form now available – also notice of 9th D&H Rapidplay
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30/06/2024
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Rotherham Chess Cub has a New
Venue
The
Blue Coat (a Wetherspoon pub)
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12/06/2024
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Winter League Player Statistics
Who
scored most points or scored highest percentages.
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14/05/2024
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Hope Valley 5-Minutes
Tournament, Crabb Shield
Details
of these and other imminent events
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10/05/2024
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ECF Finance Council
Meeting Report
Fee
increases; important info on Government grants
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27/04/2024
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South Lakes Congress
Cancelled
Message
from congress organisers
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26/04/2024
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Sheffield Congress 2024
date
now set
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21/04/2024
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Yorkshire Under 1450
Team Update
Date
and venue finalised
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01/04/2024
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Yorkshire Under 1450
Team
Player
recruitment appeal by team captain
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29/03/2024
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Summer League 2024
An
announcement from the General Secretary
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16/03/2024
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Sheffield
International
IM-qualifier
and FIDE-rated Open
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02/03/2024
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EJCOA Individual Championships –
South Yorkshire Zonal
at
Sheffield Chess Centre on 20th April
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05/02/2024
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2nd Sheffield Chess Centre
Rapidplay
on 18th
February
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05/02/2024
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Darnall & Handsworth
FIDE-Rated Rapidplay
On
Saturday 23rd of March. Now open for entries.
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22/01/2024
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Sheffield Individual
Championships
Round 1
pairings
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01/01/2024
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Sheffield Individual
Championships
Renewed
invitation to enter (lest they not take place)
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21/12/2023
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Sheffield Chess Centre
One-Day Rapidplay
16th
December 2023 – entries invited
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25/11/2023
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Mike Grimsley
Funeral
and Wake
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04/11/2023
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Passing of Mike Grimsley of
Stannington / Hillsborough
aged 79
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01/11/2023
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ECF AGM 2023
Gold
& Silver Membership levels merged; Bronze retained
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15/10/2023
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Yorkshire Chess County Teams
A county
player-recruitment e-mail
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22/03/2023
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Fixture Meeting 2023 Minutes
now available
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20/09/2023
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Revised Fixture Meeting
Agenda
and promised
wording for guidance on mobile phones etc
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19/09/2023
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Fixture Meeting 2023 and Fixtures
2023-24
comments on
Fixtures and FM Agenda
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14/09/2023
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Number of Games Generated
by successive
seasons’ league structures
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08/09/2023
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League Structure for 2023-24
No new clubs but 4
new teams
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06/09/2023
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Draft Minutes of the 2023 AGM
received less than
3 hours after the end of the meeting!
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06/09/2023
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Sheffield Chess Centre
Junior
open to all aged under 18 as at 01/09/2023; entries
invited
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03/09/2023
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Summer League
Controller’s Report
to next Tuesday’s AGM
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01/09/2023
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Sheffield
Congress 2023
Entries to date
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15/08/2023
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Death
of Chris Marley
past Ecclesall player
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04/08/2023
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Chess
& Pizza Night
at the Sheffield Chess Centre, Friday 28/07/2023
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27/07/2023
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AGM and Fixture
Meeting
Advance notice of dates and venue
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20/07/2023
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Manchester
Summer Congress
Entries invited
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01/07/2023
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Mobile
Phones
A reminder arising from a meeting of the Executive
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26/06/2023
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Darnall &
Handsworth Rapidplay
Advance notice and downloadable entry form
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26/06/2023
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Crabb Shield
2023
Notice of this year’s edition of the traditional
rapidplay event
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23/06/2023
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Sheffield
Junior Rapidplay
on 24/06/2023, incorporating Sheffield Junior
Championships
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16/06/2023
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Change of
Match Venue for SASCA
with immediate effect
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15/06/2023
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Notice of
Hope Valley Rapidplay 2023
and a further reminder about ECF membership
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11/06/2023
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Cleethorpes
Rapidplay
Entries invited
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06/06/2023
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Important
Message re ECF Membership
etc from Alan McIntosh
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24/05/2023
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Summer
League Registrations
page now set up
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24/05/2023
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Death of
Sue Maroroa Jones
formerly of Hillsborough Chess Club
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16/05/2023
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Inaugural
Derbyshire Congress
to be held 24th-25th September 2023, Long Eaton
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14/05/2023
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Sheffield
Wins Woodhouse Cup
and other Yorkshire team-event results
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25/04/2023
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Sheffield
Chess Congress
venue and date now fixed
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20/03/2023
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Summer
League 2023
entries invited
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20/03/2023
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Sheffield
Chess Congress
Plans are afoot for a revival in 2023
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12/03/2023
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Darnall
& Handsworth Rapidplay 2023
details announced
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17/01/2023
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Christmas
Quiz
offered by Mike Smith
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27/12/2022
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Rotherham
Online Winter Cup Rapidplay
Entries invited
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21/11/2022
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Messages from Geoff Brown Re
rescheduling of “Cup”
semi-finals and
finals, & extension to Individual entry closing date
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24/10/2022
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Sheffield Individual Tournaments
Notice from
Controller Geoff Brown, seeking more entries
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10/10/2022
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AGM and Fixture Meeting 2022 Minutes
have now been
issued (link is to Minute page)
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28/09/2022
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Withdrawal of Worksop C
from the Athenaeum
Cup (league division 4)
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27/09/2022
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Report on Fixture Meeting 2022
webmaster’s summary
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21/09/2022
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S&DCA Fixture Meeting Update,
including
re-jigged
divisional
structure and slightly revised agenda
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13/09/2022
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Report on AGM 2022
webmaster’s summary
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07/09/2022
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Notice of S&DCA
Fixture Meeting 2022
with agenda
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06/09/2020
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General Secretary’s Report 2022
from Geoff Brown
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06/09/2020
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Notice of S&DCA AGM 2022
with agenda and
2019 AGM Minutes
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07/08/2022
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2022 Summer League
Round-Up
A
report by Alan McIntosh
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26/08/2022
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Chess Teaching Training
Course
1st
Sept, Leeds; expressions of interest sought
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24/07/2022
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Rotherham Online Summer
Cup
Entries
invited
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14/07/2022
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Message from Geoff Brown
looking
to get the S&DCA back on track for 2022-23
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22/06/2022
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Sheffield Area Schools Chess Assocation
looking
to the future
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16/06/2022
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Sheffield Junior Open,
9th July
1-day,
5-round junior rapid-play
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16/06/2022
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Developments in the ECF Rating
System
Rating
categories A, K, P and H introduced
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06/06/2022
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English Chess Championship
Oskar
Hackner performs well
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22/05/2022
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“Blind Faith” by Chris Ross
Book
launch organised by Jonathan Arnott
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17/05/2022
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Next Rotherham Rapidplay
Entries
invited
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01/05/2022
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Postscript to University: Current
v Alumni
inc
link to article by Richard Hughes
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24/03/2022
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Doncaster Jamboree Round 3
to be
held on 16th March
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11/03/2022
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New Rotherham On-Line Event
Entries
accepted up to midnight on March 8th
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03/03/2022
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Summer League 2022 & On-Line
Season 4
Note to
clubs from Gen. Sec. Geoff Brown
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28/02/2022
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Chess and Pancakes
Jonathan’s
rapidplay event on Tues 01/03/2022
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19/02/2022
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Imminent OTB County Matches
including
request for players from David Mills
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07/02/2022
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Outcomes of Executive
Meeting “Summer” League
to
start 28th Feb; next on-line league to start in April
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28/01/2022
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Nottingham Rapidplay and
Congress
20th February , &
23rd-24th April respectively
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22/01/2022
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Looking Towards Resumption of
Over-the-Board Play
Executive
Meeting scheduled, and clubs consulted
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16/01/2022
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Next Rotherham Online
Tournaments
Entries
invited
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06/01/2022
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Doncaster “Jamboree”
Competition
Easy-going
individual event open to all
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14/11/2021
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Next Rotherham
Online Events
Still
time to enter the rapidplay events
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13/11/2021
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Funeral Arrangements
for
Mike Johnson
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23/10/2021
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Passing of Mike Johnson of
Chesterfield
at the
age of 59
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13/10/2021
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Advanced Training
Tournament for c. 1600-2000 Rating
either
adults or juniors, on 20th November 2021
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12/10/2021
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Training Tournament for c.
1100-1500 Rating
either
adults or juniors, on 6th November 2021
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11/10/2021
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Competition/Training Event
for Junior Beginners
on the
Wednesday 27/10/2021 (in school half-term)
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11/10/2021
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3rd Mini-Standardplay Event
(U-1800)
on
October 22nd/23rd 2021
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11/10/2021
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Doncaster
Chess Congress, 2022
details now published
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11/10/2021
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Sheffield
Online League - Season 3
Fixtures now on LMS, and there is a knock-out this time
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27/09/2021
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Next Rotherham
Online Events
Entries being taken for next Rapid and Classical events
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18/09/2021
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Doncaster
Chess Congress 2022
announced for 25th – 27th February 2022
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16/09/2021
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Sheffield Online
League - Season 3
Entries invited - REMINDER
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14/09/2021
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Kelham
Island Entries Invited
The next date is 19/09/2021 (last one this year)
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07/09/2021
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Sheffield Online
League - Season 3
Entries invited
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03/09/2021
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Barnsley Chess Club
New web address; club re-opens; Covid measures
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13/08/2021
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ECF Award for
Contribution to On-Line Chess
awarded to Oliver Brennan
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09/08/2021
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Sheffield
Junior Open Rapidlay, Aug 28th 2021
Entries invited
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09/08/2021
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Kelham
Island Entries Invited
The
next date is 22/08/2021
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09/08/2021
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2nd Mini Standardplay OTB
Tournament
1675+ & U-1675,
20th & 21nd Aug, entries invited
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09/08/2021
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Yorkshire League
Fixtures
Provisional ones published
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05/08/2021
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ECF 1st August
Ratings
An extract of Sheffield players
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04/08/2021
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New ECF
Arbiters
Jonathan Arnott among 29 new appointees
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02/08/2021
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Vox Populi
Finding out what players really want
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23/07/2021
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Executive Meeting
Outcomes
League deferred to January 2022 at earliest & more
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22/07/2021
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Responses
to Covid Easing in the Bridge World
by English Bridge Union and Sheffield Bridge Club
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17/07/2021
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S&DCA
Season 2021-22 ?!
Executive to meet to discuss possible way forward
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14/07/2021
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Impact of Easing of Covid
Restrictions
Personal
views
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13/07/2021
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Kelham
Island Entries Invited
The next date is 18/07/2021
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08/07/2021
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Another
Locally-Written Book
1.e4 Coffeehouse Repertoire by Gawain Jones
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07/07/2021
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Forward Look to Sheffield
League 2021-22
Revised,
and to be updated soon maybe
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17/06/2021
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Hope Valley Tournament
27/06/2021,
Kelham Island
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16/06/2021
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The Queen's Gambit - Accepted!
Book by
Jonathan Arnott and Rosie Irwin
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16/06/2021
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3rd Kelham Island
Mini-Tournaments 20/06/2021
Entries
invited
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16/06/2021
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ECF Membership Renewal
Bargain
offer from the ECF
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14/06/2021
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Entries Invited for
2nd S. Yorks. Online Open
Rapidplay,
and slower Rating-Limited events
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06/06/2021
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Death of Peter Ballard
of
Rotherham (work in progress)
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21/05/2021
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Mini Standardplay OTB
2-Day Tournament
2nd
& 3rd July 2021, Spa View Community Church
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13/05/2021
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Farthing Cup
on its
way by post to Geoff brown; photograph
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17/04/2021
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Sheffield Players’ March 2021 ECF
Ratings
for
what they are worth during present situation
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18/03/2021
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On-Line League Registered Players Added
See
Registrations link in the left-hand panel.
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11/03/2021
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S&DCA Online Season 2
Announcement
of arrangements, rules, fixtures
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05/03/2021
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New ECF Registered
Coaches Scheme
Info,
including how to become registered
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19/02/2021
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S&DCA Online Season 2
Format,
and call for entries
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16/02/2021
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On-Line Chess in Yorkshire
Present
state, a game, and a lesson in Gaelic
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14/02/2021
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ECF Newsletter’s Interview
with Gawain Jones
Additional bits
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13/02/2021
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Outcomes of Executive Meeting
11/02/2021
Online League
Season 2; new website
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12/02/2021
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Next YCA On-Line Team
Event Plans
“Ridings” (or
“Farthings”) Cup
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10/02/2021
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S. Yorkshire Online Rapidplay
Tournament
Entries invited
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10/02/2021
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Next Rotherham Online
Tournaments
Follow supplied
link to enter
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13/01/2021
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Yorkshire On-Line League Round-3
Fixtures
Date and pairings
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05/01/2020
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2019-20 League Wind-Up
Trophy winners,
promotion & relegation decided
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06/11/2020
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Death of Andy Baxter
of Rotherham
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22/10/2020
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