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The Southend Easter Chess Festival 2023 is officially launched with publication of the Entry Form (pdf) and online entry. We hope you will like the simplified entry fees with just one flat rate for the Rapid (£30) and the 7-Round sections (£45). We look forward to seeing all our friends again at Easter for thisContinue reading “Online Entry is live!”

Breaking news. The SCCU has invited the Southend Congress to host the SCCU Individual Championship for 2022-23. We are delighted to accept this invitation to add this prestigious event to the congress. As last year, the SCCU Individual Championship 2022-23 will be awarded to the highest placed eligible competitor in the Southend FIDE Open. TheContinue reading “SCCU Individual Championship”

The Southend Easter Chess Festival 2023 will take place from Thursday 6 April 2023 to Monday 10 April 2023 at the Southend Adult Community College, Ambleside Drive, Southend, SS1 2UN. The splendid picture of the venue above is by Brendan O’Gorman. On Thursday 6 April 2023 will be held the 3rd Southend FIDE Rapid, overContinue reading “Southend Easter Chess Festival 2023”

The Organisers have considered comments made by Gert de Block on a previous blog article headed “Rating Prizes”. We thank Gert for having expressed these views and agree to reinstate the Rating Prize for the U1750 section. We apologise for having withdrawn the prize in contradiction to the prizes as published in the Entry Form.Continue reading “Retraction and apology”

The Guaranteed Minimum Prize Fund of £3,000 has now been replaced by the Congess Prize Fund and is increased to £4,170 with both enhanced and new Prizes. The new prizes are Third Prize in each section of the Rapid and a second Rating Prize in the Open. However, the Rating Prize in the U1750 sectionContinue reading “Congress Prize Fund”

The Rating Prizes in this year’s Congress will be as below. The second Rating Prize in the Open is additional to those advertised in the Entry Form. However, no Rating Prize is being awarded in the U1750 which had only six players, playing for three prizes. Update 20 April 2022: The U1750 Rating Prize hasContinue reading “Rating Prizes”

We hope you are enjoying the live games broadcast round-by-round – the top three boards in the FIDE Open. We have added a couple more buttons to link to those games from the Home page, a button on the Congress page and there’s another link below. A few tips for finding your way around theContinue reading “Live games online”

All the games from R1 of the FIDE Open have now been uploaded to chess-results.com together with two games from R2. More to follow… To find these games follow the link below and scroll down until you see the links for each round. Now you know where to find them; further games will be addedContinue reading “More games…”

Thanks to the industry of Assistant Arbiter Lance Leslie-Smith, there are now 39 games from the Rapid, played yesterday (14 April) available for download. Thanks also to players who recorded their games (optional in Rapid chess) for handing in their score sheets. These games are available from the chess-results.com website, via the links below. WhenContinue reading “Games online”

Fifty-nine players contested the 2nd Southend Rapid, played 14 April 2022, divided among Open, Major U1700 and Minor U1400 sections. In each event, there was an outright winner, but a tie for second. Open1st FM David Haydon, 5½/6;=2nd FM Joakim Nilsson, John Potter, Mohammaed Aayan Ismail, 4½.22 entries.Full results: 2SR_Open Major U17001st Luoke Wang, 6/6;=2ndContinue reading “2nd Southend Rapid”