English Chess Players
ENGLISH CHESS PLAYERS
This is the official team of the English Chess Federation (ECF), and generally all English
or Anglophile chess enthusiasts.
Click on the "Join team" button to authenticate your Lichess account with your ECF membership and join the English Players Team.
BENEFITS OF JOINING:
- Participate in official regular online ECF tournaments
- Play and find like-minded and local English players or supporters of English chess
- Play for the official English team in international team battles
- Gain or lose online ECF online rating points at blitz, rapid and standard time controls with
rating lists published monthly
(Club matches are all ECF rated with ECF Blitz , Rapid and Standard online ratings
published monthly on the ECF Online Site here: https://englishchessonline.org.uk/
The ratings are based on ECF club games and games from affiliated events including
the 4NCL online and other registered online leagues and competitions).
ECF Online ratings are based on internet club/ team games and online games from
affiliated events only and are completely separate from ECF OTB ratings which will not
be impacted by internet games.)
SCHEDULE
The weekly tournament schedule is as follows:
Monday Afternoon Blitz....| 5-00 pm | 7 round Swiss at 5|2
Wednesday Evening Blitz..| 8-00 pm | 9 round Swiss at 3|2
Saturday Evening Rapid...| 8-00 pm | 90 minute Arena at 10|2
Regular Internationals are as follows:
Sunday Evening Bundesliga................| 7-00 pm | 100 mins team battle at 3|0
Tuesday Evening Champions League| 6-30 pm | 2 hour team battle at 3|0
Thursday Evening Bundesliga............ | 7-00 pm | 100 mins team battle at 3|0
Upcoming and recent tournaments are shown in the list below.
Please see the ECF's Online Fair Play Policy here:
https://englishchessonline.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/ECF-Online-Fair-Play-and-ACv2_2_final.pdf
which should be followed for all ECF online games.
Tournaments
94th Lichess Mega Team Battle3+0 • Blitz • Rated • 2h | Battle of 181 teams | 575 | |
ECF Saturday Evening Rapid Arena10+2 • Rapid • Rated • 1h 30m | Inner team | 0 | |
ECF Sunday Classical Swiss50+10 • Classical • Rated | 4 rounds Swiss | 0 | |
Lichess Liga 7B Team Battle5+0 • Blitz • Rated • 1h 40m | Battle of 10 teams | 7 | |
ECF Monday Afternoon Blitz5+2 • Blitz • Rated | 7 rounds Swiss | 0 | |
ECF Wednesday Evening Blitz3+2 • Blitz • Rated | 9 rounds Swiss | 0 |