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Hell, there are still some places that have adjournments and even <spit> adjudications!

Yes, this seems to be a case of something best left well alone.

If somebody desperately needs a toilet break for whatever reason, the arbiter can already allow for that if they deem it justified.

It may have had some basis then (not long after the change to official numerical grades) but did it still do so in the 1980s?

I can't prove that it is true or false; I'm not sure how to test it. Checking whether the shape is the same between regions is a possibility. In other words consistency of the mean, median and standard deviations. In the distant past before national grading was really established there was an alleg...

There's only a thinly veiled attempt to hide that this has been the intention in the UK for many years, our transition to 4 digit numbers was just a temporary bridge until the fide time controls are short enough to force all evening leagues to adopt and then the ecf will mysteriously run out of res...

Analysts are still uncovering new stuff in the Evergreen and Immortal games. Chess is quite remarkable at its best.

He was still, strictly speaking anyway, a teenager. I would cut him some slack personally.

Very likely to become a staple of tactics manuals in the future, that one.

You've now got me wondering what a combined version of those two would actually be like

There is a *lot* of chess stuff on YouTube, and needless to say it is of variable quality.

(though yes, the best is very good)

So more of the same where FIDE is concerned, then.

I'm glad the time control is faster than it used to be. 180 moves over the weekend was a bit much for me - but it makes a difference to finish by 5pm on the Sunday at least. It would have been a lot worse if you hadn't successfully defended R+B v R for 49 moves. I assume he wasn't playing Keith Ark...

Speelman has just turned 70, and was only 19 then. Hartston would have been 28 I think.

ISTR he once admitted he was basically a beginner at chess, he also presented bridge programmes around then and seemed to know a bit more.

Master Game episodes have been on YouTube before, but there was a mass deletion a few years ago (no doubt over copyright issues)