48th Congress - 2025
This year will be Scarborough's 48th Congress and will once again be held at the Spa Complex from Friday 24th October to Sunday 26th October 2025.
Our aim this year is to exceed 400 entries so we very much hope everyone will want to attend - we received lots of positive comments last year so we want to continue to be one of the biggest congresses in the UK.
To help us achieve this we have made the following changes .....
- An extra section (Challengers) has been added so we now have 6 sections in total.
- Extra prize money - now over £7000 in total (subject to entries). £1000 first place prize in the Open.
- Entry fees to remain the same as last year.
- Late entries will be accepted but early entries would be preferred.
- We wont be running a Junior Rapidplay this year so juniors will be offered a discount on their entry fee along with Seniors.
- All the Open boards will be aired live over the Internet using smart boards.
- Our leaflet is now being printed and will be distributed accordingly.
Thanks go to Douglas Vleeshhouwer for his work over the past 2 years but this year we welcome back Lara Barnes and we also have Matthew Carr joining the arbiting team who will also be providing the live boards.
Accommodation
The Spa doesn't have any accommodation options available for players but what it does provide out weighs any thoughts on moving so we are now reaching out to nearby hotels to try and get better prices for our players and so far we have received a deal with the Crown Spa Hotel which is located just above the Spa so upon entering via our online entry form you will now receive an email pointing you to the options available. If you've entered by post please get in touch if you want these details forwarding.
Other News
Note that we're still working on upgrading our website to the latest version of Joomla! but this is still on going so for now we'll continue with our current site.
Added features ....
- A new on line entry form has been added which is now active.
- We've a new way of showing 'entries received' which is hoped to be an improvement from last year!
- Events calendar - if you want your event adding please use the contact us form with details.
- Photos from previous congresses added.
- All the games played at our 2024 congress are now available to be viewed via our Games menu and on chess-results.com (thanks to Sean Parker for his hard work reading peoples score sheets!).
- Puzzle of the day added thanks to Shredder.
- Added more useful links
Recent Update
- We've now imported all the results from the congresses since 2002 thanks to the information provided on the ECF past events page which were initially generated by Jon Griffiths upto 2016. Unfortunately, 2003 results are missing due to getting lost and all results prior to 2002 were done manually and are hence unavailable. You can therefore view our 'Past Winners' from the menu under History.
- We are now looking at ways of showing all the result which is under our Games menu .... this is still under development due to there being over 15000 of them!