Category: 4NCL
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4NCL and My Birthday
This year I had to play a game on my 26th Birthday, I can’t actually remember the last time that happened. I’ve heard more often than not people don’t like playing on their birthday but I wont this year so it was fine :-). We arrived back from sunny Bali early on Wednesday morning and…
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4NCL & Holiday time in Malaysia and Indonesia
After a few days at home we headed to Northampton for Round 5 & 6 of the 4NCL. We missed rounds 3 & 4 while in Wijk, and our teams played each other in Round 3. White Rose lost but we managed to get some points off them! This was our first time playing in…
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4NCL – A Success
NB: I wrote this on the 8th of May but Gawain hasn’t yet proofread it.. so now I am attempting to 🙂 So last week, my team captain Paul Townsend sent me an email saying he did some calculations and thought that I was on for a WGM norm. Ga & I were walking back…
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4NCL Round 7 & 8
White Rose has been performing well in the 4NCL. I put it down to good team spirits. This is the second time I have played for White Rose, the first being in 2008 when I was a replacement for Anya Corke who had a family emergency. Since then I’ve switched teams every year, playing for…
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Holiday Blues & 4NCL
So now we are back in the UK. We arrived at Heathrow on Thursday afternoon then we had a day to rest before coming up to Hinckley Island for the 4NCL. Am I looking forward to playing? I think so, but let’s see how I get on in my games. Yesterday at 2pm I was…
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4ncl season 2012-2013
As usual normal day-to-day living has got in the way of this update but I’ll try and write a few words on the 4ncl season and see if I can get some photos from Sue. This year I joined the Guildford team and we were looking to challenge Wood Green’s hegemony. The 4ncl (Four Nations…
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4NCL Final Round Today!
Today is a bank holiday and it’s also the final round of the Four Nation Chess League. Guildford play Wood Green Hilsmark in what is the match we have all been waiting for! Here’s the lineup for today. In the demotion pool we have another Guildford vs Wood Green Hilsmark line up! You can watch…
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4ncl Round 3 and 4 Update
We left Friday evening to make it up to Daventry but while we were on the train we realized we weren’t sure which hotel we were going to. Since we don’t have smart phones we couldn’t just google it so we had to call up our flatmates and learnt it was the De Vere hotel…
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4NCL Round 3 and 4 This Weekend
Follow the live boards at the main 4ncl website. Gawain’s team Guilford is in Division 1, Pool B. Here are the pairings below. I on the otherhand will be playing in Division 2 for North East England. A lot of female players play in Division 1 as the rules state “In Division 1 each match shall be…
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4ncl Guildford Debut
The Four Nations Chess League started this weekend. This season I’m playing for Guildford and we had a good start, winning the first match 7-1 against Warwickshire Select and the second 6.5-1.5 against Barbican’s second team. In round one I had Black against IM Ameet Ghasi. Ameet is the same age as me and was…
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4NCL 2013/14 Season
I’m pleased to announce that Gawain has been recruited to play for Guilford in this year’s 4NCL season. After Pride and Prejudice breaking down, he switched back to his childhood team White Rose for last’s year season where they managed to finish 3rd=. I on the other hand will be playing for North East England,…