... and the winner is:
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Second: Colin Horton
Third: Kevin Sartain
The fixtures of the new season are now final. All clubs are invited to have a MCA Leagues and Tables. If there might be clashes of other reasons for changes clubs can contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
Spreadsheets are available for download:
Club-Fixtures2021-2022-final.ods and Fixtures-2021-2022-final.ods
Regards,
Dave
First of all, you are the real winners of this tournament. You all made this tournament a success. Thanks to your fairness and co-operation there were no real problems. You made it possible. Thank you for creating no conflicts. It was a pleasure to be your tournament controller. I hope you enjoyed our first MCA Online Tournament at least as well as I did.
We thank Atticus 1 for the great chess exhibition. For everyone it was a challenge to play against high rated players and I assume we all have learned something.
And the winner is...
In a dramatic race in the last rounds the Waterloo Vintage Boys took their chances and won their last four matches. Congratulations!
On second place:
On third place:
312 games were played.
The "Home Team" won against the "Away Team" 165.5 -v- 146.5
124 wins for White, 110 wins for Black and 67 draws.
For futher details please visit:
League statistics for MCA Online Tournament 2020/21
Unofficial grading analysis of the MCA Online Tournament 2020/21
Two chess players spending hours playing a chess, creating with their thoughts and ideas and interaction a unique piece of art. A threat here, a defense there, another attack followed by a counter-attack. Both are making their plans, communicating with each other by moving pieces and every move challenges the oppontent. It is up to him to prove the move to be a mistake. At the end the whole game is a unique piece of art created by both players. Is it important who won the game? Important is to have fun and enjoy playing chess.
Everyone interested might calculate the theoretical possibillity for winning all or nearly all games and draw his own conclusions. I am not interested in this.
I am not aware of any cheating in this tournament. If someone cheated, then he has to live with this shame, his guilty conscience and his moral failures.
Round 12, Atticus 4 -v- Prescot 1, Board 2, Sanjoy Banerjee -v- David Owens:
Can black get an advantage after playing 28. ... Bb2 instead of 28. ... fxe4?
(to be continued... Please send me your highlights. Thank you.)
Regards,
Martin
Peter Jenner: "A big thank you from Southport and myself for your time and trouble to organise this competition. Some very hard fought matches and close games."
Dave James: "I want to thank you for all your efforts in running the online tournaments. (...) The online chess was definitely a positive development for me in the lockdown days. Possibly I will return to it more as I get even older!"
Dave Barnes: "I just wanted to say many many thanks for organising this. It's been great being able to play some competitive chess during these strange times and I really appreciate the effort it must have taken to organise this. It seens to have gone really smoothly, which is obviously down to the effort you have put in to it. Many thanks again."
Alan Jackson: " Its been a great tournament. Thankyou very much for all your good work."
Steven Kee: "Martin, you have done a brilliant job in running the MCA tournament, and a concurrent Online Tournament may wellbe a possibility too (although perhaps an individual Swiss may well be of some interest, as it offers somethinga little different from OTB team play)."
Mike O'Mahony: "This is our last match and I would like to thank you Martin for a excellent run tournament and it looks like it is going to go to the last round of results to decide the winner."
Phil Ramsey: " Thank you very much for organising the MCA online tournament, it has been very enjoyable. (...) we all really enjoyed the games."
The ECF offers a "Club Finder" and an "English Online Club finder". Registration is free, no costs involved.
To register your club or to ammend your club details, please visit: Submit Your Chess Club
Aigburth Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/aigburth-chess-club
Atticus: https://lichess.org/team/atticus
Formby Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/formby-chess-club
Prescot & Knotty Ash Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/prescot-and-knotty-ash-chess-club
Liverpool Chess club (current club members only): https://lichess.org/team/liverpool-chess-club
Liverpool Chess Club and friends: https://lichess.org/team/liverpool-chess-club-and-friends
Ormskirk Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/ormskirk-chess-club
Southport Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/southport-chess-club
Wallasey Chess Club: https://lichess.org/team/wallasey-chess-club
Waterloo https://lichess.org/team/waterloo
Please inform me about your Lichess-team. I will publish this link. This enables us to play fixtures (after the MCA Committee has agreed) and matches against each other.
With Lichess (info on wikipedia) you can organise club nights online. Lichess offers tournaments, trainings and much more. Have a look: https://lichess.org/
Lichess is a french charity, non-commercial, without ads, keeps your privacy, does no data-mining and does not transfer any data to third parties. You may read their Terms of Service and their Privacy Policy to confim 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.
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.
Every club may create a "team" on Lichess and invite for online tournaments. If you want to play on this chess-server, you have to register yourself.
Register yourself at https://lichess.org/signup (Username, Password, e-mail). I like to suggest that you may register with your real name to enable everyone to recognise you.
If your club has set-up a team on Lichess, you can join this team. Simply click on the link provided by your club or click on "COMMUNITY, Teams", search for the team (see the magnifier-icon at the top-right) and click on the green button "Join team" at the top-left. The Team Leader will then activate your membership.
Edit your profile: login at https://lichess.org/login, click on your name, then on "profile". Click on the at the top-right on tool-icon ("Edit profile"), enter "Given Name", "Surname" and your ECF-grade/rating. This is important for generating the pairings in a tournament.
Have a good time and stay healty!
Regards,
Martin