| 4NCL Division 1 :: 2013/2014 |
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| Four Nations Chess League 2012/2013 (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Dates: | November 2013 - May 2014 |
| Cities: | Rounds 1-11: Hinckley Island, Hinckley Island Hotel |
| Chairman/Team Representative: | Ms. Claire Summerscale (ENG) |
| Finance Director: | Mr. Mike Truran (ENG) |
| Team Representative: | Mr. Mark Adams (WLS) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Dave Welch (ENG) |
| Teams participating: | Division 1: 16 (4 down) Division 2: 16 (4 up; 4 down) Division 3n/3s: 49 from Division 3 + 14 from the Division 3n (4 up) Total of 95 teams from 57 clubs. |
| Players participating: | Division 1: 243 (incl. 45 GMs, 41 IMs, 40 FMs, 10 WIMs, 7 CMs and 6 WFMs) |
| Games played: | Divisions 1 and 2: 704 Division 3s/3n: 2,004 |
| Competition format: | Divisions 1 and 2: two eight board round robin preliminary pools of broadly equal strength. The top four and bottom four teams in each preliminary pool will form two final championship/promotion and relegation pools respectively. Results from preliminaries are carried forward to the final pools. Division 3s/3n: Each section played six preliminary rounds. At the final two weekends (rounds 7-11) Division 3 and 3n were combined into a single division, with match and game points carried over from the first three weekends. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points in the final pool; 3. Game points overall; 4. Direct match result |
| Time control: | 40 moves in 2 hours followed by 20 moves in 1 hour followed by 30 minutes to finish the game. |
| Website: | 4NCL |
| Other websites: | ChessBase reports: part1, part2, part3, part4 The Guardian column |
| Downloadable game file: | 14-4ncl.zip |
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