The English Schools Championship Final 2024 is a 5-round Swiss for teams, held on the 27th and 28th of June in Nottingham, England.

Time control is 50 minutes for the entire game with a 10-second increment from move 1.

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Schedule
Round 1 Thursday 27th June at 1300
Round 2 Thursday 27th June at 1530
Round 3 Thursday 27th June at 1800
Round 4 Friday 28th June at 0900
Round 5 Friday 28th June at 1130
Prizegiving Friday 28th June at 1345

Venue
Nottingham University Kings Meadow Campus
www.nottingham.ac.uk/about/visitorinformation/mapsanddirections/kingsmeadowcampus.aspx

Format
26 teams qualified – 24 from the regions, plus 2 from the repechages. The tournament will be a 5-round Team Swiss System tournament, with 2 match points (MP) for a won match, 1 MP for a drawn match and 0 MP for a lost match. The tie-breaks will be:
(a) Extended Sonneborn-Berger for Teams (EMGSB)
(b) Gamepoints
(c) Sum of Opponents Matchpoints.

Prizes
1st Championship Trophy
2nd Richard Haddrell Trophy
Plate Plate Trophy (awarded to the highest-ranked team who lost in the first round)

Team lists and their results will be reported on Chess-results

The FIDE Regulations for Captains and Heads of Delegation will apply to this event. The main thing to note is that team captains cannot be involved in draw offers; this must be left to the players to judge for themselves.

Schools who have qualified for the final
Altrincham Grammar School for Boys (Region 5)
Bolton School (Region 4)
Brighton College (Region 23)
Bristol Grammar School (Region 12)
City of London School for Boys (Region 18)
Exeter School (Region 24)
Haberdashers Askes Boys School (Region 14)
Hampton School (Region 13)
Hereford Cathedral School (Region 8)
King Edwards School (Region 7)
King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Boys (Repechage B)
King’s College School (Region 19)
Magdalen College School (Region 10)
North Liverpool Academy (Region 3)
Nottingham High School (Region 6)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital (Region 11)
RGS Guildford (Region 21)
RGS Newcastle (Region 1)
St Paul’s School (Repechage A)
The Grammar School at Leeds (Region 2)
The Latymer School (Region 15)
Tiffin School (Repechage B)
University College School (Region 16)
Westminster School (Region 17)
Wilson’s School (Region 20)
Woodbridge School (Region 9)