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5th CITIES CUP 2015 - Preliminary Round- Cutoff: March 15 2015 (challenges 20 Nov., matches 30 Nov.). Players 5+ The 16 matches of the preliminary round start on 30 of November 2014. Challenges to be send on 18-20 of November 2014. Good luck to all 32 teams 1. Rasht vs Grad Nis 2. Singapore vs Berlin: http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match?id=466122 3. Moscow vs Burgas 4. St. Petersburg vs Bradford 5. Athens vs Budapest 6. Tabriz vs Toronto 7. Zagreb vs Toulouse 8. Poznan vs Bangkok 9. Yerevan vs Hastings 10. Thessaloniki vs Austr.-WA (Perth) 11. Istanbul vs Team Phoenix 12. Kyiv vs Guadalajara 13. Beograd vs Queretaro 14. Paris vs Bucharest 15. Bordeaux vs Klimavicy 16. London vs Seichamps

Daz Bedford has requested that I post my ridiculous game v Zana on here for your vivesection... I'll do my best to copy the comments of DeepRybka4 which gave post match analysis: thank you chess.com for wasting 1 hour of my time annotating a game; when posting I get an advert... I'm now going to invoice you at my standard rate of £60/hour

Hi All, A big congratulations to everyone, we have made it into the 1/4 finals of the World Cities league again, The Link Below shows our group and the games we have coming up http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/2013-wcl-14-final

http://www.chess.com/echess/game?id=65202782

An interesting 5 minute Scotch on Chesscube

tonights game against Mitchel lol, not that bad really.....

A couple of months since my last OTB game, and it was quite interesting. Any ideas on where I could have capitalised, or where I messed up, would be great....

The Schedule for the World Cities League Div 1 2012 http://www.chess.com/groups/forumview/2012-wcl-shedule

This was originally for people who play in Leeds but I have extended it to the Leeds & Bradford championship, who will be the online champion of Leeds & Bradford combined? If you don't enter then it can't be you! To enter, please click here. Thank you.

the new bradford website is live www.bradfordchess.co.uk

Your county needs you calling all bradford players we need as many as we can for this match, please sign up as soon as you can http://www.chess.com/groups/team_match.html?id=87166

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This is a really pissed of me posting this for the second time having just spent nearly 2 hours posting the first time for it to vanish. Anyway as most of you will know Pete Shaw has been playing in the British championships this past 2 week in sheffield. I wanted to take the opportunity to post some analysis of his round 9 game which he played a slav defense as black. Both players are around the Candidate master level and as such the ideas and concepts they employ are not over complicated to the layman. I felt this game was instructive for me as it highlights some of the key themes that black must play in the slav set up. This analysis is by no means comprehensive and there are stronger players than me on this site so please add your own analysis, comments or challenge mine. Key points for me from this game are 1. Black must play the e5 or c5 break as early as possible in order to change the pawn structure. Here black missed an opprtunity to do this and this resulted in a weakness in his position which cost him the game. Blacks failure to play the thematic dxc4 in the end allowed white to play cxd5 and create the backward d pawn 2. Whites pressure on the d5 pawn reaulted in blacks position becoming lost, although he didnt take the pawn the pressure allowed white to get in moves like a5, and when the last minor peices were traded white had also created a passed pawn. 3 whites peices controlling key squares preventing black from being able to defend his weakness. Like I said i already spent a few hours this morning analysing this game for it not to load correctly so my second analysis is not quite as in depth as my first but hopefully i have made my points. This is in no way a critiscism of pete as he is a stronger player than i will ever be, i just though this game could teach me valuable lessons about the key idea of the c5 or e5 breakthrough.

I am going to post my game from Tuesday night, I dont think there will be much learning in it for anyone but your comments/feedback would be appreciated.

Just a reminder that the 20th Brighouse Rapidplay Event is taking place on June 4th at the salvation army citadel in Brighouse. See the tournament list for further details and link to download your entry form.See you there! Bruce

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