(Nearly) all of the games in the first Bradford Online Slowplay event have now concluded. Pool A I got off to a flying start with three wins but collapsed a bit finishing off with three draws, when I could easily have lost all of them. This all...
I'll be updating the results for Round 7 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 28th June. Group A Paul Clarke 0.5-0.5 Alex Vijatov Bill Tait 0-1 David Barlow David Adam 0.5-0.5 Andy Bak Group B Alw...
I set up a Lichess group for the Bradford league some time ago but never did anything with it as most people were on Chess.com. I'm going to look into running some events on there as they seem to handle Bullet tournaments and Arena tournaments be...
I'll be updating the results for Round 6 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 21st June. Group A Andy Bak 0.5-0.5 Bill Tait David Barlow 1-0 Paul Clarke Alex Vijatov 0-1 Anna Szasz Group B Vivien...
I'll be updating the results for Round 5 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 14th June. Group A Anna Szasz 0.5-0.5 David Barlow Paul Clarke 0.5-0.5 Andy Bak Bill Tait 1-0 David Adam Group B Nige...
I'll be updating the results for Round 4 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 7th June. Group A David Adam 0.5-0.5 Paul Clarke Andy Bak 1-0 Anna Szasz David Barlow 1-0 Alex Vijatov Group B Paul Gr...
I'll be updating the results for Round 3 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 31st May. Group A Alex Vijatov 0-1 Andy Bak Anna Szasz 1-0 David Adam Paul Clarke 0.5-0.5 Bill Tait Group B Steve Harr...
I'll be updating the results for Round 2 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 24th May. Group A Bill Tait 0.5-0.5 Anna Szasz David Adam 0-1 Alex Vijatov Andy Bak 1-0 David Barlow Group B Dave Syke...
I'll be updating the results for Round 1 of the Bradford Slowplay as I receive them on this page. Fixtures to be played by 17th May. Group A David Barlow 1-0 David Adam Alex Vijatov 0.5-0.5 Bill Tait Anna Szasz 1-0 Paul Clarke Group B ...
Thank you to all who have entered the Online Slowplay competition. We received 21 entries so I have divided the competitors into 3 groups of 7 who will all face each other in an all-play-all format. All the information about this event has been ...
Congratulations to Alan Walton who has won the last two Lockdown tournaments. The most recent one saw Alan and Matty Webb duke it out for top honours in the Arena format. The next event will be at slower time controls than some of the previous e...
Mike Bramson made it 2/2 in the BDCA Lockdown tournaments, sweeping aside all his competition in dominating the Arena format, winning his first 11 games in a row. Mitchell Burke finished 2nd and Dale Cullum 3rd. Thanks to all who have provided fe...
To maintain the Community spirit, a few of you have asked if a list of usernames can be published with people's real names alongside them, so everyone knows who is who. So here it is! There's a few real names missing as I can't remember who thes...
Thanks to everybody that has joined the group and took park in the 1st BDCA Lockdown tournament. Mike Bramson played excellently to win the event, half a point ahead of Mitchell Burke, Gawain Ako and Dave Shapland. Click to see the full Cross-ta...
Unfortunately, I must report that a member of this group has been banned from chess.com for violating the website’s Fair Play Policy. For those unfamiliar with the policy, please read it by clicking the link. To briefly summarise, members must NO...
Hope you're all keeping safe and well through this Covid-19 pandemic, Whilst we are in the lockdown and practicing social distancing as advised by the Government, I've set up what will be the first of a series of weekly tournaments taking place o...
