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My wife said that when she saw the ratio of men to women in the chess world it made her wish she had played chess in her youth. "All these blokes!" The Queen`s Gambit affected that. I have never seen this Netflix thingie The Queen`s Gambit . Just a few snippets. However, just now I logged on to Twit...

Yeah, that´s it.
Ballsed up a relatively easy win... and then played like a tosser to lose the last round against a much weaker player.
(Mind you, Oro does mean Gold in Español..)

I played him with black in a Rapids event in Beniajan five days ago. Pretty sure his father was with him.
I think the game my be on line some place. I´ll see if I may locate it.
I missed a win in the ending and he hung on to draw.

53... ended by my loss, with White, to IM Erling Mortensen in Gausdal 1982.

I also had an unbeaten run of 49 which was ended by Sasikiran classically outplaying me in a GM event run by Adam Raoof in Hampstead in the late 1990s. Although I did win the event.

(In response to C. Kreuzer`s questions about my own norms)

First Paris 1983, with 8/9. (The highest rating performance of all time by a British player which stood until Adams eclipsed it cerca 1992 on a Greek island.)
Second Manchester 1983, 7/9.
Third Jaavenpaa 1985, 7/9.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote

Presumably Timothy Upton?

https://www.olimpbase.org/players/symimwae.html

That is bizarre behaviour.

Indeed.

John McDonald hired me to play for Hampstead in 1991 and I was playing a Scot called Upton (who had I believed represented his country)... and about move thirteen he just got up and left the playing hall.
And did not return to the board.

VERY interesting to learn of Chernaiev´s seconding of Shirov and working as an aide for Karpov. All news to me! Mind you, I`ve played Alex umpteen times over the years... and funny things sometimes happened! https://james-plasketts-coincidence-diary.blogspot.com/2006/03/3-timepieces-stopping-springt...

Doesn´t sound like he ignored the Laws of Chess to me, Kevin. He lost the game.

No.
He SANG that to them.

C4 have it, all done and dusted.
Just keep an eye out for its imminent broadcast.

Sting worked as a bus conductor in Newcastle, too.
Only briefly.

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Sad news. He offered me a draw before our last round game in Bor 1985.. and since that sufficed for his GM title I, of course, agreed. Here´s an episode from my Blog of he being one of a very, very small number of people to fall into a trap in a Pawn ending which his opponent had gleaned from Tim Kr...

I met him just once, in the late 1970s perhaps, chez Bob Wade.I told him I had heard he was something of a bridge player.
He eplied, "Yeah. I`m the best."
Bob then mentioned something about a board game Len had invented - something to do with space travel, if memory serves...