Tournament updates daily during the event . The top 8 players in the WICC will qualify for the next FIDE World Championship proper, scheduled for November 2001. Oakham School were the winners for the first time. Full report, games, photographs here . Entry is open to anybody from anywhere, and is free to the first two nominees of each Commonwealth federation.
Entry is also free to disabled players.
The rules of the 2001 Terence Chapman Grand Prix competition have been posted here . It is our sad duty to report the death, on Monday 18th June 2001, of George Smith of Southend and Essex. George's services to Southend and Essex and the BCF go back a very long way indeed. For an appreciation of his work click here . The Links section has been moved to Information .