English Chess Forum

I'd call it copyright infringement rather than theft, but that doesn't make it any less wrong. I suppose you could make a moral case for it being OK for DVDs that were no longer being produced or sold by the copyright owners, but I doubt that's the case, and of course it would still be illegal.

I'm not aware of any central management for firewalls, ours comes from the LEA at the moment, we control outbound ports, they control inbound ones. We may shortly be moving to running one ourselves. I suspect the general pattern will be mainly local authorities, some BSF companies, RM, Ramesys, Capi...

Here is an unusual one from an Oxfordshire player - http://grading.bcfservices.org.uk/getref.php?ref=115308A Over the couse of 17 years, Graham McInnes has gone from 196, down to a low of 136 and then back up to 201. I suspect that this is the guy who I remember playing for Rochdale at about the ti...

What about a rolling grade based on the performance over the previous 12 months, updated monthly? That would seem to remove problems with too few games being played each month to give a reliable grade based on that month. It also means that it doesn't much matter when results come in as late results...

Rick McMichael must be winning now on 14 with something like moves king off the third, Re3-h3-h8, meanwhile black is playing Bxb4, Kg8-f8-e7, the pawn on f6 must be strong? Presumably Kf8 would be met by Rh8 when the pawn on f6 does indeed look strong. I think the only way to save black would be so...

What a load of tripe. Nothing I have ever heard or read on this ridiculous subject has ever given me the slightest glimmer of a belief that there is intelligent life in Lancashire. Can anyone in the NCCU give any justification that thirty years after the grandparents were upset by the arrival of a ...

It is also interesting that Lancashire’s AGM’s are held in Greater Manchester and all four attendees of the last AGM live in Greater Manchester. So I think that it is relevant how few people attended the AGM. It is of course very dangerous for me to comment on Lancashire’s internal affairs ev...

Take, for example Lancs (and well done to them on winning this years Counties Open section). I see they get a mention in todays Telegraph chess section...!! How many of those players satisfy the core criteria of currently (a) Living in Lancs, (b) Working in Lancs, or (c) paying council tax to a Lan...

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My suggestion would be

W Kc8, Bf1, Bg1
B Ka8, Nc4, Nf2

1.Bxc4 Ka7
2.Bxf2+ Ka8
3.Bd5#

I'm not sure how realistic it is, but at least both side are playing the best moves, and the initial position isn't obviously resignable.

When I first heard about this rule I thought it was ridiculous, but I am starting to come round to the idea. I think it depends what you compare it to. If you compare it to time controls then it starts to look more sensible. E.g. if I take 1 second too long to reach the time control then I lose, and...

The chess nuts site already does a lot of this for Yorkshire chess. It certainly shows all graded games by everyone going back a few years, and I think also allows results to be added automatically. I've found it really impressive to terms of speed and coverage. I don't see any fundamental reason wh...

That's right. Out of town locations = more people staying at the venue = happy hotel/conference centre = free venue in return. City centre locations = more people staying and eating/drinking elsewhere = less revenue for the hotel/conference centre from room bookings, catering, bar takings = less ch...

Reading is the biggest town in England (at least, in the modern sense of the word "town"). I don't really see how it's "in the middle of nowhere", it's a big enough place in its own right. The venue is about 7 miles outside Reading. It's only called the Reading venue because that's the nearest town...

Interesting incident tonight in a league game. Player has long think on move 4 then writes his proposed move down before continuing to stare at the board. Opponent politely points out that you can't do that to which the player replied that someone else had told him that only a few weeks earlier! It...