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As a counterpoint to Yuri’s excellent Gallery, specialising in documenting the developing story of this year’s Festival, I have added my own Gallery highlighting a couple of jewels in the City of Southend crown; local interest only a few minutes’ walk from the Festival venue. Ian’s Gallery Southchurch Park is close by 5-10 minutes’ walkContinue reading “Ian’s Gallery”

We are delighted to add the pictorial record of arbiter Yuri Krylov, as he builds images from this weekend’s events. You can find Yuri’s splendid images HERE Or scan the QR code below to get the link on your device:

The 2025 Southend Easter Chess Festival began on Maundy Thursday with a vibrant Rapid, the 5th in the series of Southend Rapids, with a record entry of 68, beating the previous record of 64 in 2022. All the details are on chess-results.com – just click this link. We are delighted this year to have 30Continue reading “Festival off to a great start”

The April rating lists are out (1 April 2025) which sets all players’ eligibility for rating-limited sections. All ratings on the website Entries lists have been updated and all players are in the right section according to their April ratings. Players who were waiting for the April lists before submitting their entry(ies) may now doContinue reading “April 2025 rating lists”

Entrants’ ratings on the Entries page have now been updated to the March 2025 ratings, FIDE and ECF. The good news is that no entrant to date is showing as ineligible for the section(s) entered. However, the final indicator for eligibility will be the April 2025 ratings lists, which will be published on 1st AprilContinue reading “March 2025 Rating Lists”

The details are in place for the Southend Easter Chess Festival 2025, which takes place between Thursday 17 April and Monday 21 April 2025 the venue as before at Southend Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2UN. The Entry Form is available, link below, and we are in process of building the 2025 pagesContinue reading “Southend 2025”

We’re off! After Yesterday’s Rapid tournaments (see chess-results.com), today sees the start of the 7-Round Congress, 66th in the series. You can find results on chess-results.com (link below) and can follow the top three boards in the FIDE Open, also link below. Also, you can follow all the games in the Southend Masters – guessContinue reading “Congress Live Games”

Not long to go now! Entry closing dates Entries for the Southend Easter Chess Festival 2024 will close the evening before each event starts, as follows: Postal entries all tournaments are now closed. If you wish to enter and cannot do so online, call 07855 036 537, but please observe the entry deadlines below: OnlineContinue reading “Entry closing dates”