Saturday
1st / Sunday 2nd November 2014
Great Hall, James Graham
Building,
Leeds Metropolitan University,
Beckett’s Park Campus,
Headingley LS6 3QS [map]
An English Chess
Federation supported Grand Prix event | Entries - Steve Burton (0113)
2568157
Tournament Secretary - Brent Kitson kitson453@btinternet.com
For more detailed maps of the venue - click HERE and HERE
Jonathan Hawkins G.M. wins on
10.5/11 in The Open
Congratulations
to this year’s champion.
Congratulations to our newest
upcoming star James Moreby who plays for Jesmond.
Last year he won the Junior under 11, this year he wins the Major, next year the
Open??
George Harman who
plays for Worsley won the under 11 Junior tournament
…and
then went on to win the Sunday Junior tournament jointly with Anum Sheikh
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British Rapidplay
Chess 1986-2014 - a little bit of history
Welcome to our webpage for The
British Rapidplay Chess Tournament. Please read on
to find about the past , present and future of the
event… The country’s premier weekend chess
rapidplay event started back in 1986. It was mainly
set up through the work of Nick Nixon from Leeds, who continues to coach
youngsters at chess. Tetley's Brewery and the Yorkshire Post sponsored the
first event, which took place at The Queen’s Hotel, Leeds, donating a
generous several thousand pounds. The winner of that first event with
11/11 was Nigel Short. The event continued, and saw many fine winners
including John Nunn, Murray Chandler, Nigel Davies, Mark Hebden
and William Watson. Further sponsorship came from the National Westminster
Bank, thanks to Bill Hartston. However, the event
disappeared in 1993 along with all its sponsors. In 1994 the event fell
deeply in the red. |
New for
2014
You can now enter by
email and pay with Paypal. ;Details
here.
NB. Paypal
prices will increase by £10 per event at midnight Monday 27th October
to reflect our standard
late payment surcharges. It will be withdrawn completely
midnight Thursday 30th October
and will only thereafter be
available at the event for on the
day payments.
As Paypal
has been a success it will be available again for future events.
It appears we have fallen afoul of Paypal receiving limits so we are removing that facility
completely.
This counts as demand being too
successful. We will sort this out for next year.
You can still email your entry to Sburtonchess@aol.com and pay on the day
or by bank transfer.
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