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Jacqui Thomas · King Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 340

Please see the link below from the Irish Union giving our Scottish Team a glowing report & thanks.

http://www.icu.ie/articles/display.php?id=209

Phil Thomas · King Joined: 26 Mar 2007 Posts: 758

For those who didn't click on the link and read the key paragraph in the ICU report here it is.

Luckily that night (Friday) the Scottish team who were also in our hotel officially adopted us. I call them our knights in shining armour. They called us over to their corner in the bar and cheered Ronan right up. Over the next week they went over his games with him, played umpteen games of swap and blitz chess and gave him help preparing for his games. They are a lovely bunch of people (players, coaches and parents) and we are ever so grateful to them for taking us in.

This year the event is well into into planning stage. This year the host nation is Italy - Round1 starts August 31st. Lets hope the squad can achieve a feelgood factor as good as that evidenced by this unsolicited testimonial from the Irish contingent (contingent of just 2 = non chess playing mother and U10 son).