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4NCL 2011-2012 final weekend - 5-7 May 2012, Hinckley Island
Mickey Adams & Jonathan Rowson ponder ... [pictures by Ray Morris-Hill]
The final weekend of the 2011-12 4NCL season was hosted by the Barcelo
Hotel, Hinckley Island who provided good playing conditions and accom-
modation.
Wood Green Hilsmark Kingfisher 1 powered to the Division One
Championship Pool title finishing with maximum points and five points
clear of second place. Round 9 saw them demolish Jutes of Kent 7.5-0.5,
Cheddleton only managed one game point in round 10 whilst Barbican
managed a creditable five draws in round eleven but wins for Michael
Adams, Nick Pert (who scored 8/9 overall) and Pia Cramling ensured their
one hundred per cent record was maintained. Luke McShane, David
Howell and Jonathan Rowson were among the many other grandmasters
that contributed to the team’s success.
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Guildford 1 finished in second place with nine points
from fourteen, White Rose were placed ahead of
Cheddleton on game points both having eight match
points. There followed Barbican 1 with seven, Jutes of
Kent 5, Barbican 2 (IM norm for Sam Franklin) scored
three and e2e4.org.uk two.
Notable results were White Rose defeating Guildford in
round nine with wins for Richard Palliser (GM norm),
Colin McNab, Iain Gourlay and Jean-Luc Weller against
Antoaneta Stefanova, David Smerdon, Stuart Conquest
and James Plaskett. Guildford recovered with a 5-3 victo-
ry over Barbican in round ten, there were six draws with
Antoaneta Stefanova and Stuart Conquest securing victo-
ry.
Individually, Ingrid Lauterbach had a fine weekend, draw-
ing with David Eggleston (2327), Marcos Camacho
Collados (2422) and GM Alexander Baburin (2535).
The three European Club places went to White Rose,
Jutes of Kent and e2e4.org.uk as the higher placed
Championship Pool teams declined a place.
Cambridge University 1 topped the Demotion Pool with
maximum points but Oxford 1 with seven points, The
ADs six, Bristol 1 two and Anglian Avengers 1 one were
all relegated. Blackthorne Russia survived on game points
ahead of Oxford, largely due to their 7-1 victory in their
match in round nine. Harriet Hunt scored two out of two
to help them to safety. Michael White, of Oxford, made
an IM norm.
Olivia Smith had draws with IMs Malcolm Pein (2382)
and Gavin Wall (2330) and a win against Nicole Miranda
Gonzalez (2027)
AMCA Dragons won the Division Two Promotion Pool
with twelve points and were therefore promoted along
with Warwickshire Select on ten and South Wales
Dragons and Sambuca Sharks on nine. Pandora’s Box nar-
rowly missed out with eight points.
Significant results included South Wales Dragons 4-4
draw with Pandora’s Box with John Cooper and Sven
Zeidler defeating much higher rated IMs on the top two
boards and Sambuca Sharks 4.5-3.5 win against Kings
Head with wins for GM Robin Van Kampen on board
one and Chris Russell on board eight in round nine.
Sambuca then beat Pandora’s Box 4.5-3.5 with wins for
Tom Rendle, Peter Roberson and Sam Williams in round
ten whilst in round eleven SW Dragons, Sambuca and
Warwickshire all won meaning that Pandora’s Box 5.5-2.5
win against AMCA was insufficient to secure them pro-
motion.
Barbican Youth won the Division Two Demotion Pool
with Cambridge University 2, Bradford DCA Knights A,
Brown Jack and FCA Solutions all being relegated.
Important results included Rhyfelwyr Essyllwg defeating
Bradford 4.5-3.5 in round nine, Spirit of Atticus 6.5-1.5
win over Bradford in round ten and 3Cs victories over
FCA Solutions and Bradford (4.5-3.5). Cambridge could
only draw with Brown Jack in round eleven whereas an
extra half point would have meant they stayed up by one
game point ahead of 3Cs!
e2e4.org.uk 2 were champions of Division 3 with 18
match points and were promoted along with KJCA Kings
and North East Eagles on seventeen and Wessex on six-
teen. Three victories for e2e4, 5-1 against AMCA Rhinos
followed by 3.5-2.5 against North East England and 4-2
against Wessex saw them take the title. KJCA Kings and
North East England drew in round nine before round ten
defeats meant they had to win in the last round, which
they both did. Wessex won in round, nine and ten which
proved sufficient for them to take fourth place. Hackney,
AMCA Rhinos and Guildford 3 on fifteen points were
among the many frustrated teams that missed out on the
top four.
Various links to the results and league tables can be found
as follows:
League tables: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/tbs_1112.htm
Results: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/resdiv1.htm
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/resdiv2.htm
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/resdiv3s.htm
Crosstable: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/fide_crosstables.htm
Games: http://www.4ncl.co.uk/downloads.htm
2012-13 dates:
http://www.4ncl.co.uk/2012_13_dates.htm
In closing I would like to thank the many people who help
towards the continuing success of the league including
Mike Truran, Claire Summerscale and all of the arbiters
and game inputting team.
- Lawrence Cooper
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Above - Anantha Anilkumar, Mark Hebden | Right - Stuart Conquest
Below (L-R) - Matt Carr & David Clayton, Nick Pert, Jack Rudd
Bottom (L-R) - Elizabeth Paehtz, Bogdan Lalic/Brian Smith/Jon
Speelman & Sheila Jackson, Antoaneta Stefanova
Very bottom - Phil Ehr
Pictures on this page courtesy of Dr John Upham - http://johnupham.smugmug.com/chess
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FINANCE COUNCIL MEETING
The ECF Finance Council met in London on Saturday, 14 April.
Chief Executive Andrew Farthing offers his personal diary of the
course of the meeting. Any views expressed are his own.
1.30 p.m. Start on time. It’s a formidable, 24-item agen-
da, with a maximum available time of 5 hours (less a short
tea break), i.e. about 12 minutes per item on average.
Piece of cake…
1.34 p.m. Items 1-3 completed and Minutes approved.
1.35 p.m. Matters arising from the Minutes not otherwise
on the agenda. Alex McFarlane, representing the
Scarborough congress, read out a statement asserting that
the President’s Report approved at the previous Council
meeting should be considered inaccurate in the light of
subsequent information. Discussed for 25 minutes with-
out clear conclusion.
2.02 p.m. Chief Executive’s Report. Updated Council on
the Board’s decision regarding the online membership
solution. This prompts 8 detailed questions from one
person alone. Council not being asked to approve Board
decision, but discussion continues regardless.
2.25 p.m. Still on my report. It mentions the CAS lawsuit
against FIDE. Despite my pointing out that this is the
following agenda item, discussed for 10 minutes, mainly
regarding the non-reporting of the case to Council at the
2011 meetings.
2.35 p.m. Back to the events following the 2011 British
Championships and, in particular, matters relating to a
teleconference of the Board directors, referred to erro-
neously by me at the time as a Board meeting but techni-
cally not one. This leads to mild hilarity when Mike Gunn
refers to his having been overseas and therefore “not
present at the non-meeting”.
2.52 p.m. A few delegates are starting to grow concerned
at the slow progress and press the Chairman to move to
next business. The Chief Exec’s Report is approved, with
– if memory serves – one vote against.
2.56 p.m. Update on lawsuit. Delegate comments are
overwhelmingly disapproving of the Board’s judgement in
deciding to initiate the action and of its failure to brief
Council on it. It is decided that the most appropriate way
to express approval or disapproval is to vote on accept-
ECF News
ance or rejection of the FIDE Delegate’s report. On a
hand vote, the score was 17-15 in favour of approval, but
the closeness indicated the need for a card vote. This saw
the report rejected, 73 to 103.
3.13 p.m. The first piece of finance business: item 7
(Report on ECF accounts for the year ended 30 April
2011). We’ve averaged 22 minutes per agenda item thus
far, but this is a quickie. Approved with none against after
four minutes.
3.17 p.m. Introduce the report of the Chairman of the
Finance Committee, who is unavoidably absent.
Discussion of the first half, concerning the annual
accounts, takes just over five minutes. Questions stray
onto the second half, which concerns the accounts of the
2011 British Championships. John Philpott explains to
Council the work that he completed on these and talked
through the figures. Council is satisfied with the correct-
ed accounts as presented but concerns are expressed over
lapses in the processing and approval of transactions,
which are breaches of the ECF’s Financial Bye Laws.
Connecting this to earlier discussions, a motion is pro-
posed which, after debate, is modified to the following:
‘Council considers that the conduct of the President
brings his performance in the role into question and calls
for a full review of his activities.’
After a close hand vote, the resulting card vote saw the
motion defeated 84 – 93.
4.05 p.m. Just past halfway in terms of time; a third of the
way down the agenda, with the most substantive topics
still to come. With some relief, delegates welcome the
Chairman’s announcement of a ten-minute tea break.
4.20 p.m. The meeting resumes with item 9, a motion
proposed by Sean Hewitt to move responsibility for inter-
national rating from Home Chess to International Chess.
Despite the momentary absence of the proposer, the
motion is overwhelmingly approved on a hand vote.
4.22 p.m. Council is invited to approve the Business Plan
for 2012/13. This is approved with none against after the
usual extensive discussion.
CONTENTS
4NCL - FC, 2-3
ECF News - 4-8
International - 9
Results Round-Up - 9
World Schools - 16-21
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ChEx Bookshelf - 22
Book Reviews - 25
Grand Prix - 27
Batsford - 28
Calendar - 29
4.24 p.m. Next item – the report of the Finance Director,
including the forecast for the 2011/12 financial year just
concluding. There is a motion to insert item 21 - the con-
sultation paper on a junior membership scheme – at this
point, i.e. to discuss it before getting into the meat of the
2012/13 budget. There is insufficient support for this
request. Slightly alarmed by the reason for opposing the
suggestion given by one delegate, “If I had known that
one of the consultation papers was going to be discussed
as a concrete proposal, I would have read them,” but I
understand what he means. The Director of Finance’s
report is duly noted.
4.44 p.m. Finally into the meat of the Finance meeting.
Item 12 is the proposal for Membership Fees from 1
September 2012. These are as presented to Council at the
last AGM. A proposal from the floor to increase the rec-
ommended subscription rates for Bronze, Silver and Gold
by £2 is defeated on a hand vote 11-21. A further propos-
al to remove the £1 discount for online payment is also
defeated.
A proposal to increase the proposed 3-year rates so that
they are simply three times the annual rate (i.e. no dis-
count, but protection against price rises) was approved
22-8.
As amended by the above, the proposed membership fees
were approved 28-3.
5.15 p.m. An hour and a quarter left, and the halfway
point has been reached on the agenda, numerically if not
necessarily in terms of substance. Not good.
Item 13 – the proposal to keep the minimum Membership
Fee for Member Organisations at £58 – is quickly
approved. Under the new arrangements, this will apply to
very few organisations anyway.
5.17 p.m. Here’s where it became complicated. This was
the proposal for the Game Fee rates to apply from 1
September 2012. Many different amendments were pro-
posed from the floor. The final outcome was as follows:
Paragraph 4.6 of the Game Fee Bye Laws were amended
in October 2011 to state:
“The payment of Game Fee is hereby waived …. with
effect from 1st September 2012 in respect of games
played by Direct Members in competitions organised by
the Federation (including the British Championships, the
National Club Championships and the National Stages of
the Counties Championship) and competitions registered
pursuant to 4.3 hereof (i.e. competitions run by Chess
Leagues Congresses and Clubs which are registered by
31st October).”
So Game Fees will only be payable in respect of games (or
half games) played by non Members:
The Board proposes the following level of Game
Fee for results as from 1 September 2012: the alignment
of all rates for standard graded games at £2 and for rapid-
play graded games at £1 is consistent with the relative vot-
ing entitlements under Article 30 that will apply from 1
September 2012.
(a) Standard graded games – £2;
(b) Rapidplay graded games – £1;
(c) Standard graded games submitted by clubs (for
internal club competitions) – £2;
(d) Rapidplay graded games submitted by clubs
(for internal club competitions) – £1:
Provided that:
(1) for Congresses the respective rates shall be
reduced to a total fee per event of £6 per adult player and
£4 per junior player irrespective of the number of games
played and where a Bronze Member takes part in a
Congress such fee shall be effective to upgrade his or her
membership for the year in question to a Silver
Membership.
Rates for junior events
(e) Standard graded games played between junior
players under the age of 18 in solely junior events – 50p;
(f) Rapidplay graded games played between junior
players under the age of 18 in solely junior events – 25p:
(g) Standard graded games submitted by clubs (for
internal club competitions played between junior players
under the age of 18 in solely junior events) – 50p:
(h) Rapidplay graded games submitted by clubs
(for internal club competitions played between junior
players under the age of 18 in solely junior events) – 25p:
where each graded game will comprise two results and
Game Fee shall be payable for each result (all of which
terms are defined in the Game Fee Bye Laws).
What’s the significance of this amended version? The
answer is not straightforward and not necessarily pre-
dictable. This is my take on it:
(1) Removal of complexity. In process terms, the removal
of the different rates depending on the achievement of an
85% threshold of membership makes things clearer and
easier.
(2) Addition of new complexity. There are now different
‘pay to play’ fees (in non-junior only events) depending on
whether the player is an adult or a junior. Also, the pro-
posed simplified game fee structure has been “de-simpli-
fied” again.
(3) Increased risk of discouraging new/ungraded players.
With the passing of the 85% threshold also went the
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