Congratulations are in order to Tom Thorpe who was recently awarded the FIDE Arbiter title at the 88th FIDE Congress in Antalya, Turkey.
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| Welsh Chess Union (Undeb Gwyddbwyll Cymru)Patron: Lord Greg Mostyn |
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Congratulations are in order to Tom Thorpe who was recently awarded the FIDE Arbiter title at the 88th FIDE Congress in Antalya, Turkey. Wales at the European National Chess Team Championships – Catez, Slovenia November 11th 2021 – November 22nd 2021 – Jason Garcia In the current Covid-19 world holding over the board competitions, which are considered safe for chess players, is harder than it has ever been. When the European Chess Union announced this year’s National Team […] Following on from the success of the 1st online Olympiad in 2020 and with the continuing travel restrictions due to Covid 19 it was unsurprising that FIDE organised a second online Olympiad. Once again the time limit for the event was 15 mins each for all moves plus 5 second increments from move 1. This […] The 2021 Welsh Correspondence Chess Championship will commence in June 2021. Entry to the 2021 Championship is open to all Welsh flagged chess players; there will be no entry fee for this season only. The tournament will be played online using the ICCF webserver https://www.iccf.com All players must be registered […] A recent update to Google Chrome has disabled the left-click on links in this website. Users are advised to either: right-click and view in a new tab, or use an alternative browser i.e. Edge. Welsh players acheived the following: Mens Championship Name Seeded Pts Final Position Grzegorz Toczek FM 15/37 5/9 =13th Jonathan Blackburn FM 16/37 5/9 =13th Ifan Rathbone-Jones 24/37 0.5/9 =33rd
Mens Rapidplay Championship Name Seeded Pts Final Position Grzegorz Toczek FM 9/28 4.5/7 5th Nazir Rizvi 18/28 2/7 20th
Mens Blitz Championship Name Seeded […]
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We are looking for suitable persons to become Welsh Arbiters. All applying must be WCU members. A Seminar will be held during January over two evenings (dates to be confirmed). Those seeking to become Welsh National Arbiters need to take part in such a seminar and sit and pass an examination at the end of […] The Management Board require urgent expressions of interest from any WCU member to fulfill the following vacant posts of: Role Job Description Deputy Executive Director Link Director Women’s Chess Publicity Director Anyone interested should contact the Execevutive Director Mark Adams at executivedirector@welshchessunion.uk.
[…] This can be viewed here There is now a very popular mini-series streaming on Netflix called ‘The Queen’s Gambit’ which I am sure our members will find very entertaining. What is probably less well known though is that a former Wales Junior International, Paul Atkinson from Gwent, (who currently lives and plays in Berlin), worked as an on-set consultant and […] |
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