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Ian’s Gallery
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’ walk…
Yuri’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:
Festival off to a great start
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 30…
April 2025 rating lists
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 do…
March 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 April…
Early entry discount
We trust you are enjoying the festivities! If you know what you will be doing at Easter 2025 and that happens to be “playing in the Southend Easter Chess Festival 2025” now is a good time to enter as you can take advantage of the early entry discount, up until and including 5 January 2025.…
Southend Easter Chess Festival 2025
Entries are now open for the Southend Easter Chess Festival 2025, organised by Giant Chess. The dates are 17-21 April 2025 and the venue once more is Southend Adult Community College Ambleside Drive, Southend-on-Sea, SS1 2UN. The Festival embraces the 6-Round Rapid on Thursday 17 April, followed by the 7-Round Congress from Friday 18 April…
Southend 2025
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 pages…
Congress Live Games
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 – guess…
Entry closing dates
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: Online…
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