Second Lancaster Standard Play Congress – 9-11 August 2024
We held our second standard play congress at Lancaster Royal Grammar School Assembly Hall over the 9th to the 11th August. It was a full house with 110 entrants from all over the UK. We had sponsorship from Lancaster City Council and Cumberland Building Society. £2,150 was distributed in prizes plus a local 12 year old chess prodigy is receiving 6 hours of tuition from our local International Chess Master. One of our 17 year olds won the intermediate section and another local young man got a grading prize in the Open section. On Saturday evening we also held an optional cash super blitz which attracted 16 players. The whole event was ECF rated and the top two sections were FIDE internationally rated for the first time.
You can see all the result on the global database chess results, which were posted in real time as the games finished, at this link https://chess-results.com/Tnr928626.aspx?lan=1
Big thanks to Brendan O’Gorman for taking the photos of the event some of which are posted here. You can see all of them at the following link https://brendanogorman.smugmug.com/Chess/2024/Lancaster-Chess-Congress-2024