Four Nations Chess League :: 2014/2015 |
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Four Nations Chess League 2014/2015 (see all-time tournament summary) |
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Dates: | November 2014 - May 2015 |
Cities: | Rounds 1-4, 9-11: Hinckley Island, Hinckley Island Hotel Rounds 5-8: Holiday Inn, Birmingham Airport |
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: 47 from Division 3 + 13 from the Division 3n (4 up) Total of 92 teams from 55 clubs. |
Players participating: | Division 1: 236 (incl. 30 GMs, 45 IMs, 1 WGM, 41 FMs, 8 WIMs, 4 CMs and 7 WFMs and 1 WCM) |
Games played: | Divisions 1 and 2: 704 Division 3s/3n: 1,875 |
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 |
Downloadable game file: | 15-4ncl.zip |
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