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So I got the job. Nomenclature is about pattern recognition and using rules to create systematic names for chemicals, and then extending the rules, when somebody makes a chemical that doesn't obey the normal rules. In fact I probably became much better at naming chemicals than I was at chess. It st...

If you look, Peter isn't at all sure if he should be allowed to do this sort of thing himself. From his note underneath the game: Does FIDE need to change its laws? I asked the same question after T Foster vs P Lalic, 2023, which lasted for six and a half hours and 214 moves. As long as I avoid a t...

"However, I do feel, as I walk to the newsagent every day, that newspapers nowadays are bought mainly by the old." I see newspapers as kind of a charitable donation to society - I'll find one sitting on the seat of a bus or train, skim the headlines and then leave it for someone else to have a read...

They might also just be being sarcastic that hikaru considered his blitz rating as some great achievement of chess skill to be commended when it's largely just trash games of him flagging people...

Recently I've been having some sightly better games against black with the advance variation (I say "better" because it's such an anti chess position that a negative opponent will often find ways to squeeze any life out of the game) but the one scummy system I've not found an answer to and has resto...

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 18, 2023 10:36 pm

I note there were no MPs in the parliamentary team, even though a few current ones have played serious chess in the past.

Well the lords are members of the houses of parliament by default, not sure about any of the rest of them - I know really recognised the chess celebrities among the team.

Great initiative, the more chess is noticed by thosein government the better recognition it will get.

Surprised to find out that Malcolm pein and Chris fegan are members of parliament though, I always thought they were just Ecf officials?

It's definitely a good example of why clubs should discourage new players from rushing out and getting a rating when they still barely know the game... One thing you probably could do is re register with the ECF and 'retire' your original name - I've seen that happen a few times in the past, includi...

Past greats such as Capablanca - who claimed they reached the top without doing much work - were never telling the whole truth one suspects. Definitely not, they might have been content to rest on their laurels at times but on examination of their games you'll see an unnaturally high accuracy imply...

I think Barbican are top by alphabet difference. Since we joined Division 2, we find ourselves repeatedly surprised by our positive results. Long may they continue.. What would happen if you actually won the division, do you think you would be able to handle division 1 or would you have to decline ...

I don't know... I hear a lot these days about prioritising 'mental health' but to be the best of the best you really need a mind purged of all emotional weakness and never give in to it or even accept it exists - I've never been a world champion at anything but the general trend I've seen among cham...

I was browsing chessbase earlier and came across this article. https://en.chessbase.com/post/where-is-ding-liren You would think he would want to build a somewhat better legacy then this - what with Magnus quitting for no good reason and now Ding nowhere to be seen it is making the title of world ch...

When I was a bit more competitive in the past I would use an app called scid - it's a database viewer which, if you go to the effort of downloading every pgn file from UK tournaments (or even the world, if you are really feeling studious) you can merge them all together into one mega file and have a...

If chess was like football or cricket the players would be paid to play, accommodation and transportation would be provided for them and they wouldn't really mind where they had to go from one match to another - 4ncl (aside from a few div 1 players that might get some recompense and the occasional w...

It's a shame Alan Llewellyn isn't still around, I feel like we would have crossed that 250k posts and be quickly heading towards 500 by this time, sad to think it's been a whole year since he last posted.