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That must be the record for the longest running chess website -1998 to 2021. And I never heard of it at all until today. I suspect the record belongs to TWIC, which has just celebrated its 27th birthday. As far as I know without ever missing a week (it's on issue 1406), a remarkable achievement by ...

It was also on the C&B bookstall at 4NCL last weekend, I did wonder why.

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 03, 2018 8:56 am

and the Iranians, who may be the best group of the lot. Where have they come from?

Taking a wild punt, Iran?

Is 1. Sam Lloyd? Van Buren famously lost the presidency at least in part due to his lavish personal consumption while imposing austerity in response to the economic crash in 1837 and Lloyd was born 1841 (I cheated and checked Wikipedia on that), so the dates fit. 2. Blackburn? He was nicknamed The B...

Though the very first Lone Pine tournament was earlier than that - 1971 or '72? 1975 may have been the first where a significant number of GMs (certainly from outside the US) participated. I never knew that but you're right. 1975 was the first one where international title norms were possible, ther...

While idly flicking through BCM 1975 I stumbled on a report about the first Lone Pine tournament. The comments to the game Kushnir - Evans claims that it was the first win by a woman against a GM since before WW2, presumably alluding to Menchik. As the GM title didn't become official until 1950 you ...

Specifically, rule 1.48a from here: https://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=174&view=article "The minimum average ratings Ra of the Opponents are as follows: GM 2380; IM 2230; WGM 2180; WIM 2030." Does anyone know when that criterion was added (presumably to avert precisely this sort of thing)? ...

Hi Tristan
Did you get my PM, you've not been in touch.

Not a single word about div 3N, so they obviously don't understand what the main event is

Intriguing just how similar the max 12 board strength for 3C's and York over 12 boards would be to that Drunken knights team. +-1 average grade! Not sure how (m?)any other non 4NCL outfits there are that can get close to that. Not over 12 boards but how about this Hendon team? Hendon 1 v Kings Head...

Well, the record listed in the original post didn't last long!

http://www.londonchess.org.uk/match_car ... n=20152016

The vital rule has to be that an individual cannot play for more than one team in the same division. For me that is necessary, and sufficient. You won't like me very much then, I managed to play for all 3 Drunken Knights teams this season. Next season when the 3rd team will be in Div 2 this may wel...

About the Dubai Open, NOT about David Howell: There has been a cheating scandal at the event. http://chess-news.ru/en/node/18610 Shocking indeed. If true the player has been doing this for a long time. Can he/ will he be banned and/or stripped of his rating and GM title like the French players who ...

Beliavsky got 13/13 in a tournament in Spain, from memory Alicante, sometime in the late 70's. There is an anecdote in his games collection about how he at the time thought his success was due to the sound of the sea, which helped him to sleep well. Later he realised that although the sea helped him...

Jacques Mieses played well into his eighties, his international career must have stretched over at least 60 years.
Blackburn also had a pretty decent innings.