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New ECF Monthly Grading Live 10/9/20
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- Written by sjb
- Category: Club News
The new monthly ECF Grading System has been released today.
Follow the link below to get all the latest Atticus Club Grades.
https://www.ecfrating.org.uk/v2/new/list_players.php?club_code=7ATT
Cross Keys Pub 1/9/20
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- Written by sjb
- Category: Club News
The Cross Keys Pub are continuing with their generous food offer throughout September. All meals have 50% reduction on Monday,Tuesday and Wednesday in September.
Keep Atticus active!
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- Written by Martin Blasczyk
- Category: Club News
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.
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.
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 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
MCA STATEMENT 18/3/20
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- Written by sjb
- Category: Club News
MCA announces the suspension of the Liverpool Chess league.
- Published: Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:38
- Written by Dave Pearcey
Bobby Fischer 9/3/43- 17/1/08
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- Written by iluveu
- Category: Club News
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the passing of the great enigmatic world chess champion Bobby Fischer,
Atticus 2 player John Williams is seen here visiting his Gravesite in Reykjavik in 2018. John a regular Marathon Runner was taking part in the August Iceland Marathon.
The Miracle of Widnes
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- Written by Sanjoy Banerjee
- Category: Club News
2. December 2009, MCA Division 1 |
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Widnes 1 |
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3½-4½ |
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Atticus 2 |
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GM Nigel Davies (B) |
233 |
1-0 |
176 |
Andrzej Stancak (W) |
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Miroslav Gruca (W) |
211 |
½-½ |
176 |
Tom Bimpson (B) |
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Russell James (B) |
195 |
0-1 |
158 |
Dave Stuttard (W) |
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Mark Ellis (W) |
185 |
1-0 |
138 |
Marcus Chard (B) |
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Nicholas Barnaby (B) |
187 |
0-1 |
134 |
Farhad Amir-Afshari (W) |
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Richard Clissold (W) |
160 |
0-1 |
132 |
Sanjoy Banerjee (B) |
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Phil Coughlin (B) |
160 |
½-½ |
123 |
Steve Burge (W) |
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Michael Connor (W) |
147 |
½-½ |
127 |
Martin Blasczyk (B) |
Ten years ago this day, I was involved in one of the biggest upsets in Merseyside Chess history, when Atticus 2 travelled to Widnes for a match where we were significantly outgraded on every board.
Widnes were league leaders at the time and you had to go back to the 2007/2008 season to find when they had last lost a match. Conversely our second team that season was rather a patched up affair, following the loss of a number of players. What unfolded just goes to show that you can never take anything for granted in sport. Whoever the opponent, and however long the odds, nothing is ever impossible!
It was the start of a successful decade for Atticus 2, under Steve Burge’s leadership, culminating in a hat-trick of title successes in 2015, 2017 and 2018.
Ten years on, six of the eight players are still regular club members, and we still like to reminisce from time to time about that memorable night.