| Four Nations Chess League :: 2000/2001 |
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| Four Nations Chess League 2000/2001 (see all-time tournament summary) |
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| Dates: | October 2000 - May 2001 |
| Cities: | Rounds 1-11: Birmingham, Grand Moat House Hotel |
| Tournament Director: | Mr. Chris Dunworth (ENG) |
| Chief Arbiter: | IA Richard Furness (ENG) |
| Teams participating: | Division 1: 12 (3 down) Division 2: 12 (3 up; 3 down) Divisions 3 and 4: 16 (split into pyramid system after first part of the season; top 3 from Div/3 promoted to Div/2) Total of 40 teams from 26 clubs. Midland Monarchs lost sponsorship (Bigwood) and returned to their previous name. Index-IT and The ADs merged to put two teams in Div/1 and play under the name of their new sponsor Beeson Gregory. |
| Players participating: | Division 1: 158 (incl. 30 GMs, 31 IMs, 4 WGMs, 31 FMs, 4 WIMs and 3 WFMs) |
| Games played: | Divisions 1 and 2: 528 Divisions 3/4: 448 in the preliminaries, 256 in the finals |
| Competition format: | Divisions 1 and 2: Eight board round robin. Divisions 3/4: Two preliminary round robin groups of eight. Top 4 from each group form Division 3 and bottom 4 form Division 4. |
| Final order decided by: | 1. Match points; 2. Game points |
| Time control: | 40 moves in 2 hours followed by 20 moves in 1 hour followed by 30 minutes to finish the game. |
| Website: | 4NCL |
| Other websites: | Then official Website BCM information Chess Oracle reports round 1-4 Chess Oracle information |
| Downloadable game files: | Division 1: 01-4ncl.zip Division 2: 01-4ncl_2.zip Divisions 3/4: 01-4ncl_3all.zip (games from rounds 9-10 are missing) |
| Division | name | flag | code | pts | gms |
| Div 1 | GM Hebden, Mark | |
TADS | 9½ | 11 |
| Div 2 | Lee, Graham | |
WGL2 | 9 | 11 |
| Div 3/4 | Taylor, Peter | |
BRB3 | 9½ | 11 |
| Division | name | flag | code | pts | gms |
| Div 1 | GM Hebden, Mark | |
TADS | 9½ | 11 |
| Div 2 | Davies, Nigel | |
CSOL | 8½ | 11 |
| Div 3 | Taylor, Peter | |
BRB3 | 9½ | 11 |
| Woman | Khoo, Teresa | |
BCCA | 8 | 11 |
| Youth | Jones, Richard |  |
NLIB | 8 | 10 |
| Division | name | team |
| Div 2 | Hayden, Richard | Witney & Swindon |
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