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Author: Ian Gallagher

Chess Club Christmas Cwiz

23rd December 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

The university chess club moved its Christmas social online this year with a chess adjacent quiz and a lichess arena.…

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Despite Everything, Thursday Lichess Tournament

20th November 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

Our second social Lichess tournament took place yesterday, probably surfing in on the success of Netflix shows. Sign up to…

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Filed under: lichess, tiger king gambit, tournaments

Thursday Lichess Tournaments

13th November 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

The university chess club has started hosting weekly tournaments on lichess every Thursday between 7pm and 8pm. The aim is…

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Filed under: 1986 Ford Cortina, lichess, tournament

4NCL Online Playoffs

21st June 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

After an exciting regular season going down to the very last game, Bristol University 1 went into the playoffs to…

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4NCL Online

11th June 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

The regular season for the first 4NCL Online tournament finished earlier this week, so alongside the previous instalment, this report…

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Bristol Online Chess – Grand Prix 1

1st June 2020 Ian Gallagher 1 Comment

We all know why these events are taking place, so we skip over that and say that the first Bristol…

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4NCL Online Update

8th May 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

As chess moves towards online only competition, there have been a number of high-level tournaments set up to replace over…

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A Cheeky Scandi, Part 3

17th April 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

In the last part of this mini-series about me trying to constructively maintain my sanity during the lockdown, and also…

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A Cheeky Scandi, Part 2

13th April 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

Unsurprisingly, my gushing admiration of a Cheeky Scandi meant that my previous article went on long enough to warrant a…

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A Cheeky Scandi, Part 1

11th April 2020 Ian Gallagher Leave a comment

There are a few openings that have a special place at the University. The two obvious examples being the all-conquering…

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