British Championship Update

In the Championship Gordon Evans and Freddy Bush are early leaders with three draws apiece. Meanwhile in Candidates 'A', Richard Ward takes the lead with three draws also. Early results on the webserver appear to favour these early draws but I will take a look at these and let you know if they represent theory lines/evaluations or titanic tussles. Candidates 'B' was disrupted by the unfortunate withdrawal of Chiedu Maduekwe whilst in the Reserves there is just one result with Sandy Smyth being the winner in his game versus Martin Hardwick. Nothing to report from Candidates 'C' as yet.
The BFCC EC meeting meet soon and one of the items being considered is the amount of leave available within the British Championship. The ICCF Webserver handles leave on a calendar year basis, therefore we have currently set the leave period to 14 days per calendar year. Normally an ICCF event has 30 days per calendar year but the 'British' has an adjudication date and early finsih compared to standard ICCF events. Please let me know if you feel 14 days is or is not sufficient. Special leave remains available at the Tournament Controllers discretion.

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