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Congratulations to the Club for Winning this Years World Chess Club Dancer of the Year 2019/20. Well done to all those who have contributed so much towards this magnificent achievement.
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- Written by: sjb
- Category: Club News
Just a reminder Martin has arranged another Blitz Tournament on Lichess Site Tonight at 19h30, please register on the site and join in.
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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
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- Written by: sjb
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MCA announces the suspension of the Liverpool Chess league.
- Published: Wednesday, 18 March 2020 11:38
- Written by Dave Pearcey
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- Written by: John Redmond
- Category: Club News
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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- Written by: Carlsen
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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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- Written by: Martin Blasczyk
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Belen Lopez-Perez from Liverpool Hope University is looking for research participants, healthy people (65+ years) who use theirsmartphones on a regular basis to take part in our study on prosociality and well-being over 28 days.
Participants have to fill out an initial survey with different questionnaires online (30 minutes). Afterwards, they will receive over 28 consecutive days 3 links a day (one in the morning, another in the afternoon, and another in the evening) with a very brief survey (2 minutes).
If you are interested in taking part or in receiving further information, please send an e-mail to:
As a token of appreciation, participants will receive up to £ 35.00 in Amazon or Tesco vouchers.
Note: Participants will receive £ 25.00 if they complete a minimum of 50% of the puestionaires of the study. If they complete at least 75% of these days, they will receive £ 35.00.
Please support this study. Thank you.
Martin
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Yes, they're here and there are some 'leapers-forward' in the Atticus ranks. Steve Burge is up an eye-catching 9 to 130. Then there are a number of '7-ups'. Sanjoy is up 7 to 136. Jim McCarthy is up 7 to 177. Tom Webb is up 7 to 128 and Nigel is up 7 to 127. Luke is up 6 to 176. Congratulations to one and all!
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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.
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| Atticus A | Vs | Chester A | ||||
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| 1 | Steve Kee (195) | ½ | - | ½ | John Carleton (208) | |
| 2 | Luke Boumphrey (170) | 1 | - | 0 | David Robertson (187) | |
| 3 | Brian Ewart (148) | ½ | - | ½ | Graham Dobson (180) | |
| 4 | Sanjoy Banerjee (129) | 1 | - | 0 | David Stuttard (149) | |
| 5 | Steve Burge (121) | ½ | - | ½ | Colin White (129) | |
| Final Score: | 3½ | - | 1½ | |||
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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.