Tournament Details
The ECF National Online Clubs Championships is taking place over the weekend of June 26th – 28th 2020. The Championships are being held as an All play All for the top section together with two five round Swiss competitions in the Intermediate and Minor Sections. Fixtures are played between teams of six players (from a pool of up to 12). There will be a £10 entry charge with trophies for the winners.
The event is taking place on the lichess platform and managed through LMS.
The tournament Controller is Stephen Greep (sjgreep@gmail.com), Chief Arbiter and Fair Play Controller Douglas Vleeshhouwer (douglas.vleeshhouwer@gmail.com).
The competition and Online Fair Play rules can be found at the links below and will be in force throughout.
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/National-Online-Clubs-2020-V6.pdf
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-online-fair-play-and-anti-cheating-rules/.
Club entries will be placed in the LMS (National Online Club Championship section as they are made. https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60234/home
There are three sections in the tournament with 34 teams competing as below. The Major will be an All Play All over the five rounds. The Intermediate and Minor will be in Team Swiss Format.
Major
Broadland
DHSS 1
Harrow 1
Kings Head
Muswell Hill
Solihull
Intermediate
Downend & Fishponds
Farnham
Hackney
Hebden Bridge
Horsham
Leeds University
Letchworth
Lewisham
The Six Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Trelawney’s Army
Uxbridge Knights
Wimbledon
Minor
3Cs
Battersea Pawnbreakers
Beckenham and Bromley
Bude surfers
Colchester Juniors
DHSS 2
Harrow 2
Hull
Limewood A
Noisy Neighbours
Rugby
Stroud
Telepost
Uxbridge Bombers
Watford
Watford Juniors
Round times will be as follows:
The times of each rounds are as follows:
• Round One: Friday 26th June 19.30 – finish
• Round Two: Saturday 27th June 10.00 – finish
• Round Three: Saturday 27th June 14.30 -finish
• Round Four: Sunday 28th June 10.00 – finish
• Round Five: Sunday 28th June 14.30 -finish.
Fixtures – Fixtures for the five rounds will be announced in advance with the team lists entered in LMS and visible an hour before the start time for the relevant round.
Spectator Viewing: Spectators can watch games during the rounds by going to the LMS NOCC page below. (Players are advised against watching other games while their games is still in progress, but may want to watch their team mates once their games are over.)
https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60234/home
Once in LMS the spectator should click on the relevant section on the left of the screen (major, intermediate, minor) and select the relevant fixture and then the game they wish to watch. Alongside each player’s name there will be a small image (below highlighted) – click on this and the game will appear in a lichess window. This will work for any game throughout the weekend and not need to be logged in to the LMS for this to work.
This is a mock-up of the spectators game selection screen in LMS.
Standings After Round 3
Rounds 1 – 3 – Rounds 1 to 3 are now complete with the Championships entering the last two round today. Harrow, Wimbledon and 3C’s are clear leaders on 3/3 in Major, Intermediate and Minor sections respectively. Please see the links below for the tables for the three sections.
Major
http://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60670/table
Intermediate
http://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60558/table
Minor
http://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60671/table
You can watch all the games in the last two rounds live on https://ecflms.org.uk/lms/node/60234/home (click on section and then results numbers of the games in progress to show individual games).
Final Rounds
Rounds 4 and 5 start today 10.00 and 14.30.