Mind The Gap

MY participation at tournaments in Basel (Jul 17-20) and Gateshead (Aug 26-30) means there is a roughly five-week gap to fill chess-wise.

In pre-covid times I would have probably solved this with a series of weekend events in the UK.

A search of the calendar at the English Chess Federation supplies two promising candidates: Oxford (Aug 7-8) and Ilkley (Aug 21-22), although the former is likely to be a junior-fest.*

I am also considering another longer tournament somewhere in Europe, but will hold fire on any such decision until nearer the time as I fear more countries will soon return to banning visitors from Britain.

*Incidentally,  the word likely is an anagram of Ilkley!