British Rapidplay Chess Championships 2008

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SUMMARY of MAIN DETAILS

SENIORS
OPEN £32. Free to titled players before 24th November
Major Championship (below 161) £29
Intermediate (below 131) £27
Minor (below 101) £25
Sunday Only £15

JUNIORS
England Under-11 trial qualifier (Saturday) £13
One day rapidplay (Saturday) £13
Under-16 (on 31st Aug 2008) - includes Under-14 (Sunday) £13
Under-12 - includes Under-10 (Sunday) £13

TIME TABLE
Saturday. Opening ceremony 11.45. Round 1 starts 12.00; Round 6 ends 8.30pm
Sunday. Round 7 starts 9.30am; Round 11 ends 4.45pm. Prizegiving 5.20pm approx.

ACCOMODATION
If you are not familiar with hotels in Halifax, you might consider
The White Swan ( 01422) 355 541 www.whiteswanhalifax.com.
It offers us preferential rates and was used last year. Double or twin £55 B&B. Single £45 B&B. Quote “chess”; email - info@whiteswanhalifax.com. Many more are listed with phone numbers, on http://en.venere.com/hotels_halifax/; nine of them are listed on the full entry form.

TEST yourself against the BEST
Juniors and others might enjoy looking at some of the slips made in last year's Open Championship games here. Scroll through the games to any place where Fritz calculates that a blunder has been made. Occasionally you will find that Fritz is wrong - too short-sighted. But usually you will find a line that some of these excellent players have missed in the speed of play. Either way you can learn a lot, and perhaps gain in confidence.

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