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Calling All Micronations – We Need YOU for a MicroChess tournament (and you could win a trophy)!!

29/4/2021

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You may (or may not!) have seen posts on various micronational noticeboards here on Facebook from the Commonwealth of Dracul regarding a MicroChess compeittion.

Their Vice President, Stephen Luke, has kindly set up a MicroChess Tournament for some friendly competition between interested micronations – games are split into Beginners (definitely my category!) and Advanced and the tournament is FREE and fully online via an existing platform.

Sadly, despite the deadline of 26th April for signups, Dracul still need just a handful of more micronations to sign up to make this viable. However, the deadline HAS NOW BEEN EXTENDED TO 3RD MAY  TO ALLOW FOR MORE ENTRANTS.

Whilst the Micronational community quite rightly prides itself on it’s individualism, I truly believe that online competitions / sporting events are a great way of these entities to come together in a shared and friendly manner. Such initiatives have potential to do much more to foster relations than endless ‘treaties’ and conferment of titles (although there is of course a place for these), and fake “virtual” wars more suited to Dischord…

The New Weddington Isles has an active ‘virtual’ and real-world sporting team and feel this is a key part of our culture. Chess is an internationally understood competition and as a nation we are proud to sign up for this and explore further ways of joint working through sport to bring micronations together…

Which is a long-winded way of saying PLEASE if you have the inclination and the most basic knowledge of chess (it’s not the winning it’s the taking part !!) – why not sign up; who knows – you may even come away with a trophy!

If the micronational community cannot muster the small number of participants required for this (10) then I feel that is a little concerning and a missed opportunity.  The Registration link is here, check(mate) it out 😊  
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