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Out first tournament on Lichess was a success. We will continue this and co-operate with other chess clubs to limit the amount of work for organisers and to imptove the number of players to make the tournaments as attractive as possible.

This are our next tournaments:

Tuesday, 26/03/2020, 7:00 p.m.: Open Blitz Turnier Arena
Organiser: Michael Schulz-Runge, FS 98 Dortmund
URL: https://lichess.org/team/fs98 Michael will give you access
direct link: https://lichess.org/tournament/7ZZjllz8
Time: 4 Minutes + 2 Seconds per move
Duration: 90 Minutes

Monday, 30/03/2020, 7:30 p.m.: Atticus Blitz Arena, password: AtticusBlitz
Organiser: Martin Blasczyk, Atticus Chess Club
URL: https://lichess.org/team/atticus
direct link: https://lichess.org/tournament/wmEwIcK3
Type: individual blitz tournament
Time: 5 Minutes + 5 Seconds per move
Duration: 2 hours

See you there!

Martin

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Extraordinary times need extraortinary measures: Atticus Chess Club goes online! You all are invited to join our online club.

Tonight we played for the first time online @Lichess.org and we organised a Blitz-Tournament against FS 98 Dortmund. 8 Atticus players and 7 FS 98 players joined this tournament. The result was:

Atticus 132 points and FS 98 Dortmund 66 points.

After some time we got used to the system and I think, everyone enjoyed playing.

If you want you may become a member of FS 98 at Lichess too. Then you can join their club night as well. They are playing every Thursday from 6:30 p.m. Here is the link: https://lichess.org/team/fs98

On Lichess.org you can challenge other players. Simply move the mouse on their nick, an info-box opens, click on the crossed swords, choose the options and click on one of the kings at the bottom. Wait till your opponent accepts the challenge.

We will organise regular tournaments on lichess. We will keep you informed on our website.

Have a good time!

Martin

 

PS It was great night of chess lasting for around 90mins and playing a number of 5minute blitz games.

Maybe we play some games against other MCA Clubs in the near future?

Thanks to Martin for organising this and hopefully the next match will take place again soon. Steve B

 

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Let's play online against each other!

Become a member of Atticus at Lichess.org!

A few words at the beginning

Lichess is a French charity, non-commercial, without ads. It keeps your privacy, does no data-mining and does not transfer data to third parties. You may read their Terms of Service and their Privacy Policy to check for yourself. It is free and costs nothing.

About lichess.org

lichess.org is a free/libre, open-source chess server powered by volunteers and donations. Most “free” websites subsist by selling ads or selling user data. Others do it by putting all the good stuff behind paywalls.
Lichess does none of these things and never will. With no investors demanding profits, Lichess staff can focus on improving the site as their only goal.

Lichess Privacy Policy

4. Disclosing your information.

Your information will only be disclosed if it is legally necessary to do so. For example, if Lichess is ordered to hand over a certain user’s information, or if someone hacks Lichess.

Lichess Terms of Service

Lichess is a registered French charity. Lichess is open source, non-profit, mainly operated by volunteers, and funded by donations. A full breakdown of costs and expenses is publicised monthly, and can be viewed here.

Please read the "Fair Play and Community Guidelines", they are part of the Terms of Service.

How to become a member of Atticus at Lichess:

Register yourself at https://lichess.org/signup (Username, Password, e-mail). I would like to suggest that you register with your real name to enable everyone to recognise you.

Join the team "Atticus". Click on this link https://lichess.org/team/atticus or click on "COMMUNITY, Teams", search for "Atticus" (see the magnifier-icon at the top-right) and click on the green button "Join team" at the top-left. As I am the Team Leader I will activate your membership.

Edit your profile: login at https://lichess.org/login, click on your name, then on "profile". On the top-right click on the tool-icon ("Edit profile"), enter "Given Name", "Surname" and your ECF-grade/rating. This is important for generating the pairings in a tournament.

Our first tournament:

Let's have a try and test it, let's play a blitz chess tournament on Monday, 23/03/2020 at 8:00 PM. Please register at the latest by 7:30 p.m.,  to enable me to activate your membership in this team so that you can play.

See you there next Monday!

Cheers,

Martin

 

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MCA announces the suspension of the Liverpool Chess league.

Published: Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:38
Written by Dave Pearcey

MCA announces the suspension of the Liverpool Chess league.

Due to the ongoing coronavirus problem and recommendations from HM Government,

all fixtures in the Liverpool league and cup competitions are suspended until 30th April 2020.

By that date a decision will need to be taken whether matches can be resumed or the league programme cancelled. If cancelled, we will need to decide how best to finalise the 2019-2020 season.

David Pearcey 

President MCA

You may follow the FIDE Candidates 2020 Tournament in Yekaterinburg, Russia from March 15 until April 5. Today (18/03/2020) they are playing Round 2.

 

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As Chairman of Atticus CC I have to inform club-members that, owing to the ongoing coronavirus crisis, Atticus CC has reluctantly decided to withdraw from all chess competitions immediately until further notice. We have notified the MCA to this effect.

  As many of you will be aware the Warrington League - in which many MCA members play - formally suspended all its competitions on Saturday (until April 18th). Various leagues around the country have done the same thing and many chess tournaments have been cancelled. 

 Our decision has been shaped by a number of considerations that have grown more urgent in recent days: chess is an activity which places people together in close proximity, often in less-than-hygienic environments, with enhanced risk of cross-infection. Many players in our club are in the 'at-risk' age-profile. We have to put the health and safety of players before everything else.

  We understand that there are different views on these matters in the chess community. However we believe we are acting with the interests of that community very much at heart.

John Redmond (Chairman, Atticus CC)

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The games of FM Dave James and Brian Ewart playing in the World Seniors Championship in Prague can be followed live on the following link:

http://www.wstcc2020.net/games/live-coverage/open-65-live/

 

 

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