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league.
This page is the homepage for the 2010/11
season.
All details about the 2011/12 season can be
found
here.
Best Annotated Game Prize
- Mike
Truran.
29.05.2011 -
The 4NCL will be offering three
prizes of £50 each for the best annotated
games from the 4NCL 2010/2011 season, and we
should be glad to receive entries for this
competition.
I imagine that we will not be presenting trophies and prizes until
the Hinckley Island weekend of 14th-15th January when all the teams
except those in the Northern League will be at the same venue. That
said, we should probably set a deadline so that people who want to enter
can do so while last season is still reasonably fresh in their minds, so
can I suggest that entries be submitted by the end of July please?
Anyone wishing to enter a game should bear the following in mind:
Entries will be judged not only on the standards of the play
exhibited, but on the level of insight, relevance, possibly humour
etc. demonstrated by the annotations.
It is not necessary for the annotator to have been one of the
participants in the game, simply that the game needs to have been
played in the 4NCL during 2010/11.
Entries should be sent in PGN or Chessbase format please to the 4NCL Webmaster.
Paul Littlewood, former 4NCL chairman, has kindly agreed to act as
judge for the competition.
Player Crosstables (3)
- Neville
Belinfante.
28.05.2011 -
Results have been sent for grading to the
ECF and for rating to FIDE. The FIDE summary
is at
http://ratings.fide.com/tournament_report.phtml?event16=53251.
Where there are differences in the figures
between the FIDE summary and the
spreadsheet, the FIDE summary has the
correct figures.
Updated
player files have also been uploaded again
to correct further errors that were spotted
by players.
23.05.2011 -
The last few pgns are now
online.
That completes all game files for the
2011/12 season. Many thanks as always to the
game inputters for their Herculean efforts
during a busy year.
Room Rates 2011-13
- Mike Truran
23.05.2011 -
The new bedroom rates for Barcelo (2011/2012
and 2012/2013) and De Vere (calendar years
2011, 2012 and 2013) are published
here.
Barcelo Hinckley Island have asked me to draw to your attention that
they will be offering special triple and quad BB and DBB rates for
2011/2012 and 2012/2013.
I understand that this will entail three/four separate single beds
(if necessary sofa beds or Z beds) in the room, i.e. nobody will be
expected to share beds. If my maths serves me correctly, this works out
at £21.75 per person (BB) and £34.75 (DBB) per person for a quad room
for 2011/2012.
Player Crosstables (2)
- Neville Belinfante.
20.05.2011 - Updated
player crosstables are now available. The
earlier versions had some wrong and missing
results. Included are two more lists which
show the ECF grading performances of all
players.
20.05.2011 - We are
grateful to Malcolm Pein at Chess & Bridge
for permission to publish three articles
about the 4NCL which appeared in recent
issues of
CHESS
Monthly.
View or
download the three articles and a
Chessbase file of games used in the
articles.
Final weekend PGNs
19.05.2011 - More files
are now
available
with just a few to follow for Divs 1 and 3.
Many thanks as always to the game inputters,
Alex Holowczak, Jack Rudd and Katie Smith.
Dates for 2011/12
06.05.2011 - Planning for
next season? Check out the dates and venues
for 2011/12, including those for the J4NCL
here.
Final Weekend Team Report
04.05.2011 -
Many thanks again to John Carleton
(Spirit of Atticus) for sending another
excellent
team report.
Final Weekend report
03.05.2011 -
A report from the final weekend of the season is available
here -
with thanks to Lawrence Cooper.
Divisions 1, 2 & 3 Final Weekend
03.05.2011 -
After an exciting final weekend congratulations should go to the
following winners in the 2010-11 season:
DIV 1: Championship Pool: Pride &
Prejudice
DIV 1: Demotion Pool: Wood Green
Hilsmark Kingfisher 2
Previous updates for 2010/11 can be found on the
News Archives
page.
CONGRESS ORGANISERS
Whilst we are happy to display entry
forms for forthcoming congresses at the
4NCL weekends, please send any such
information to Dave Welch. You can find
Dave's address
here.