LOUGHBOROUGH CHESS CLUB


Summer Cups 2008

Leicestershire and Rutland Chess Association runs four Cups during the summer months.

The Chapman Cup is an open, handicapped knockout tournament.

The Birstall Cup is a handicapped knockout tournament for first-round losers of the Chapman Cup.

The Harrod Cup is a five-round rapidplay Swiss tournament for teams with an average grade below 100.

The Wylie Cup is a rapidplay tournament originally designed to be open, but now limited to teams with an average grade below 138¾.  It is a five-round Swiss, except when we don't get enough teams to do this, in which case it runs as a round-robin tournament.

In 2007, we entered the following teams: