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2022, Christmas

Merry Chessmas from the BCN Team!

December 24, 2022 John Upham
A Merry Chessmas to all our readers !
A Merry Chessmas to all our readers !

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By the way TWIC is back up and I got to say much faster than recently. Some might have seen that I split the TWIC archive page up, I did that before it became complete impossible to edit it at all!

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To remind us of the Summer, we have a catch-up report on the highly successful Coventry ChessFest.

The event was held at Broadgate in the heart of the city centre under the watchful gaze of Lady Godiva.

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