As you may have heard from reading the ECF forum thread http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=31&t=3494. The tournament that myself and Adam Hunt were due to play in was cancelled http://www.ajedrezcalamillor.com/en/open.php.

Unfortunately, we only found out about 4 days before we were due to play and obviously by that stage we had paid for our flight and accommodation (there were no conditions).

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Ginger GM is proud to present the first of an (ir)regular series of question and answer columns by ginger International Master Adam Hunt.

Adam, who is full-time chess teacher at Woodbridge School in Suffolk, is currently playing a series of open tournaments in Greece. I (the webmaster) thought it was only fair to fly out to Kavala myself to force him to answer his first set of questions, which he’s been sitting on for far too long!

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