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Last updated - Wednesday, August 17th
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Recent updates
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17/8
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Barbican 4NCL to enter European Club Cup
Barbican 4NCL will, for the third time in four years, represent the BCF in the European Club Cup, held this year in St Vincent, Italy, on 18-24 September. The team will again be generously financially supported in this competition by the Friends of Chess.
Click here for more details, including a selection of games. With thanks to Jonathan Rogers.
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17/8
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Teams and Players wanted
A list of players looking for teams, and vice versa.
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13/8
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2005/06 season
The list of teams for next season is almost finalised - click here for the details. As luck would have it, we have an odd number of teams entered so far, so there will be some amendments before the season starts. Details to follow on the web site.
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24/6
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4NCL Statistics 2004/05
Paul Dupre, Addlestone's Captain, has put together a fantastically comprehensive web page showing statistics from the season just gone. Paul's page analyses performance for each club, nationality, male / female, and probably loads of other stuff that I haven't managed to figure out yet! You can find this mine of information here. Highly recommended browsing!
If you have any comments or queries about this page, you can contact Paul directly.
One word of warning - this web page is huge. Depending on your browser settings, you may get a message saying something like "A script on this page is causing Internet Explorer to run slowly ...". If you let the script finish, it should work OK.
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22/6
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BBC Radio Five Live
Mark Hogarth, the 4NCL's Sponsorship, PR and Marketing Director, made a guest appearance on Tuesday night's Anita Anand show.
If you want to listen to the show, you can find a recording here. The entire show is 3 hours long, but Mark did his turns at about 50 minutes in, and then again at about 1 hour 40 minutes in, and you can fast forward through the other bits. Subjects covered include Michael Adams's match against Hydra, women / girls in chess, how does chess compete with Nintendo games for kids' attention, etc.
If you do want to listen, I believe you have about a week before the recording is removed from the BBC web site.
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17/6
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2004/05 4NCL complete
All the games from the 2004/05 season are now available for download.
PGN format (size 1.87 MB)
ChessBase format (size 311 KB)
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11/6
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Division 4
Please note - contrary to what you may have heard, the November weekend is at West Bromwich and the February weekend is at Nottingham. The full schedule is here.
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10/6
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Divisions 3 and 4 - Final Weekend
Congratulations to Division 3 Champions OXFORD 1 and also to SLOUGH SHARKS 2 and HILSMARK KINGFISHER 2 who won Divisions 4A and 4B respectively.
GUILDFORD-ADC 3 and CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY 1 join Oxford in gaining promotion to Division 2 for next season, whilst HILSMARK COVENTRY and SLOUGH SHARKS 3 are promoted to Division 3.
Division 3, Round 9 results
Division 3, Round 10 results
Division 3, Round 11 results
Division 3 score table
Division 3, Round 9 games in PGN or in game viewer
Division 3, Round 10 games in PGN or in game viewer
Division 3, Round 11 games in PGN or in game viewer
Division 4A, Round 9 results
Division 4A, Round 10 results
Division 4A, Round 11 results
Division 4A score table
Division 4B, Round 9 results
Division 4B, Round 10 results
Division 4B, Round 11 results
Division 4B score table
Division 4, Round 9 games in PGN or in game viewer
Division 4, Round 10 games in PGN or in game viewer
Division 4, Round 11 games in PGN or in game viewer
There was a dramatic climax in the final game in Division 3, as board 1 of the Numerica 3Cs 2 v. Poisoned Pawns 1 match reached its conclusion after almost 7 hours play. Poisoned Pawns had long ensured that the match was won, but needed to win the last game to bring their game score level with that of Cambridge University 1. Then, with match and game points equal, the third promotion place would have been theirs, having beaten Cambridge in Round 9, when four of the Cambridge team, delayed by traffic, arrived more than one hour late to find their games lost by default. Phil Adams bought off a fine last minute win to the rousing cheers of Cambridge players. Play through the decisive game here. Sadly Numerica were still relegated to Division 4.
Earlier, Brown Jack's hopes of promotion from Division 4, dented by a loss to Slough Sharks 3 on Sunday, were extinguished by a loss to the league leaders Hilsmark Kingfisher 2, whilst Slough Sharks 3 romped to a 5½ - ½ win versus Addlestone.
In Division 4B, Hilsmark Kingfisher 2 set a record by becoming the first team in 4NCL history to win all their matches in a season.
With thanks to John Robinson, Robert Parker, Mark Hogarth and Paul Dupre. Also to Chris Ross, for helping us with the Braille Chess Association game scores throughout the season.
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10/6
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More on ratings
With thanks again to Neville Belinfante ...
This Excel spreadsheet, calculated by Neville's own software, shows the FIDE rating calculation for each player last season. It particular, it gives clear information on which of their opponents were rated and which were not.
Please note that FIDE rules for national leagues are that the player's ratings when the league starts should be used for the rating calculations for that league. Therefore the ratings shown on the crosstable are those from the July 2004 rating list which was the list in force when the league season started last September.
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5/6
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Ratings & Grades
The 4NCL results for the 2004/05 season were submitted for international ratings and BCF grading immediately after last weekend's games had finished, and so made FIDE's deadline of the end of May for inclusion in the July list.
You can find the FIDE crosstable here and the BCF grading summary file here. Both documents are in Microsoft Excel format.
If anyone spots any errors they should contact Neville Belinfante pronto. With thanks to Neville for the information.
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CONGRESS ORGANISERS
Whilst we are happy to display entry forms for forthcoming congresses at the 4NCL weekends, please send any such information to John Robinson. You can find John's address here.
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Previous news updates can be found in the Archive.
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