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This is a qualifying event for the 2008 British Championship. It is also an English Chess Federation Grand Prix Event and it incorporates the 2008 Somerset Championships. Over Ł1500 in prizes are on offer. The events are: The Open (which any player may enter),The Major (for players graded under 155), The Intermediate (for players graded under 125), and the Minor (for players graded under 100).

All tournaments are 5 round Swisses with 4 hour playing sessions. The rate of play will be 40 moves in 1 hour and 40 minutes. All moves in 2 hours (i.e. both clocks to be set back 20 minutes after Black's 40th move).Entry forms and further information may be obtained from G. Jepps, 27 Lockey Road, Shepton Mallet, Somerset BA4 5RQ. Telephone 01749 344191. Or you can e-mail: gn.jepps@virgin.net
They ask that you include a self-addressed STAMPED envelope if a paper receipt/acknowledgment is required. You can view their past congresses at the Congress website at www.somersetchess.org and also download a printable entry form from the same place. Entry fees are indicated on the entry form.

This site is gradually being updated. Until this is complete, you will find that some links currently do not work. In some cases, where you have clicked a link to a page that has not been created yet, you will get an error message and will need to use your back button to return to the page you came from. Only 5% of the links on this site are problematic. Repairing the ones that aren't working isn't inherently difficult, but involves research and inventiveness so please be patient.

The eagle-eyed among you will notice that I have added a link at the top of this page to various forthcoming events. This link can take a while to load, so again, please be patient. This is a fairly definitive source of information about upcoming events!

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I will begin work on creating the the specific fixtures results tables just as soon as I have all the results in for the various matches. I have about 95% of them and have feelers out to have the remaining ones sent to me. I enjoin all of you to analyse the results of the matches played document on this page and if you detect anomalies please inform me of what they are and send me any pertinent results data! I will reinstate a link to the new fixtures pairings for the 2008/9 season when the next season rolls around in the autumn. One tip folks: I've been making a lot of changes lately updating this site, but you're unlikely to see the full benefit of the additions and deletions unless you flush out your browser cache! I've even noticed that unless I flush the cache for EACH new page I load on this site then sometimes my browser will serve up an older one so it is really a good idea to get into the habit of invariably flushing your browser cache each time you load up a 'new' page!(This is by no means a bad rule to follow when visiting your other favourite sites!)

The up-to-date current league standings for the two divisions can be found by clicking on the relevant links immediately below.

CORNWALL CHESS ASSOCIATION

8th of May 2008