48th Congress - 2025
This year will be Scarborough's 48th Congress and will once again be held at the Spa Complex from Friday 24th October to Sunday 26th October 2025.
Our aim this year is to exceed 400 entries so we very much hope everyone will want to attend - we received lots of positive comments last year so we want to continue to be one of the biggest congresses in the UK.
To help us achieve this we have made the following changes .....
- An extra section (Challengers) has been added so we now have 6 sections in total.
- Extra prize money - now over £7000 in total (subject to entries). £1000 first place prize in the Open.
- Entry fees to remain the same as last year.
- Late entries will be accepted but early entries would be preferred.
- We wont be running a Junior Rapidplay this year so juniors will be offered a discount on their entry fee along with Seniors.
- All the Open boards will be aired live over the Internet using smart boards.
- Our leaflet is now being printed and will be distributed accordingly.
Thanks go to Douglas Vleeshhouwer for his work over the past 2 years but this year we welcome back Lara Barnes and we also have Matthew Carr joining the arbiting team who will also be providing the live boards.
Scarborough Rapidplay 2025
Scarborough Chess Club will be holding their 2nd Rapidplay event on Saturday 14th June 2025.
Full details can be found on their website. And their leaflet with all the details can be found here.
Other News
Note that we're still working on upgrading our website to the latest version of Joomla! but this is still on going so for now we'll continue with our current site.
Added features ....
- A new on line entry form has been added which is now active.
- We've a new way of showing 'entries received' which is hoped to be an improvement from last year!
- Events calendar - if you want your event adding please use the contact us form with details.
- Photos from previous congresses added.
- All the games played at our 2024 congress are now available to be viewed via our Games menu and on chess-results.com (thanks to Sean Parker for his hard work reading peoples score sheets!).
- Puzzle of the day added thanks to Shredder.
- Added more useful links
Crown Spa Hotel
The Crown Spa have given us a group booking for their rooms providing the following prices ...
| Room Type | No. of adults | No. of children | Cost/night | No. allocated |
| Standard Single | 1 | £62 | 6 | |
| Standard Double | 2 | £98 | 30 | |
| Family Double | 2 | 1 | £107 | 10 |
| Family Twin/Double | 2 | 1 | £107 | 10 |
| Standard Double Sea View | 2 | £117 | 9 | |
| Family Twin/King Sea View | 2 | 1 | £131 | 12 |
| Executive Double | 2 | £117 | 16 | |
| Executive Double Sea View | 2 | £150 | 8 | |
| Family with Annex | 2 | 2 | £136 | 4 |
| Feature Double with Sea View | 2 | £164 | 10 |
Extras
Infants 0-2 years - no charge
Children 3-15 years - £9
3rd Adult - £12
Single occupancy of double room - discount of £12
The rates given are per room per night and all include a full English breakfast.
All of the rooms are en-suite. The bathrooms have a rainforest shower over a double ended bath, with mood lighting. The bedrooms have LED TV’s with Freeview, tea, Coffee & Hot Chocolate making facilities on a courtesy tray, iron & ironing board, hairdryer, direct dial telephone & TV, HDMI, VGA & Audio outputs. There is wireless broadband access (WIFI) within each room, complimentary.
Booking
To book telephone 01723 357400 & speak to reservations, quoting 'Scarborough Chess congress'.
The first nights stay will need to be paid for to confirm the booking.
Facilities at the hotel
The Retreat Suite, which comprises of a Hemlock Sauna with Mood Lighting, Hemlock Sanarium with Fibre Optics, Steam Room, Ice Cave, Foot Spas & lounges with complimentary newspapers.
The Fitness Suite with Gymnasium, Cardio Vascular & Aerobic Stations, Computerised weight machines, fixed weight machines, free weight apparatus & aerobic dance studio.
The Aqua Suite, which includes a 40-foot Swimming pool, Spa & Warm Tub.
Available at an extra charge are ....
The Spa Therapy Suites are available to book for Massages, Facials & other Beauty Packages.
The Elemental Rejuvenation Suite includes the Rasul Mud Treatment Room, Ice Room, Steam & Sauna Rooms & the Relaxation Suite.
They are also able to offer complimentary porter service on arrival and departure, along with a complimentary Tea or Coffee at Taste Bar on arrival.
Parking for all guests
We have a loading bay at the front of the hotel to park (20 minutes’ grace) whilst guests can check-in at reception.
On check-in, guests will either receive the on-street parking scratch card (£5 per 2 days) or the Hotel Car park ticket. The Hotel Car park must be pre-booked & is £15 per night.
The receptionist will advise on-street parking streets (this is all the streets around the hotel in the 3L Zones) & direct guests to the car park (at the rear of the hotel)
For those guests in the car park, there is an entrance at the back of the hotel going down to the Spa; this will lead to the hotel lounge & reception.
Website
Below is a graph showing when entries have been received.
Observations show that our 45th and 46th congresses were very similar despite our 46th being released for entry around 2 months before the 45th's. Last years congress (47th) was available later than the others but entries came in a lot quicker resulting in a higher entry level. We've opened up entry for this years congress (48th) earlier than all the others in the hope it will help us achieve our 400+ entry level and so far so good. Note that the graph has been made to show 0 for future weeks to highlight were we're currently at!
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