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see above, Chess.com's report on the 'Queens Gambit' and the Golden Globes. https://www.chess.com/news/view/golden-globes-for-the-queens-gambit "I love chess! I've had to pick up new skills for the movies that I've been doing, so I'm looking forward to having some time off so I can get back to chess...

I was in my chess man cave playing over a Carlsen game from the Soltis book when I got the call: "Geoff, Chess on the telly." Just watched 'Mysteries at the Museum' on the History channel. It was on Ossip Bernstein and how he escaped from being shot because he was a chess player. The programme said ...

"It's a woman reporting some really unpleasant sexist attitudes." ...either not realising these two clowns were having a cheap laugh at her expense or knowing they were and using it to show this is the kind of nonsense female reporters sometimes have to put up with. Nobody would say such a thing to ...

Stockfish is a machine only doing what it is told to do (I do not frequent chess.com, can you not just turn the analysis off.) Originally thought the thread was about analysis by humans with notes and criticism regarding online blitz games, something I have always deemed pointless stretching to the ...

Proof I never throw anything out. The Blunder Tin. Last used in 2007. https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/s640x640/155001622_10222309325056450_6115974987553337162_o.jpg?_nc_cat=110&ccb=3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=hjaiHPlMOA8AX8Tdc8X&_nc_ht=scontent-lhr8-1.xx&tp=7&oh=8e956c7fe9f7b8c794d226b385...

How would a game against yourself go? I'd take White, sacrifice things, play keep the booty with Black, misplay a combination against myself and lose the ending. Most common position as Black - 2...f5 in the Greco Counter (Latvian) Most Common as White. Bxc6 in the Lopez after Nf6 (with or without a...

Hi Nick, Bells was actually nearest pub and I live literally a stones throw from the tournament hall. (I tried to claim travel expenses but to no avail.) Wife says there was a chess player on 'Tenable' yesterday (24th Feb) he says he was a junior player, represented England in a tournament in Poland...

..er...that was usually me that judged it. I often put up £10.00 for the best 'swindle/daft game' so they roped me in as well to judge the best game. I brought in a specially designed a box for players to put their games in. (Blue Peter would have been proud.) I then played over them in Sandy Bells....

The first brilliancy prize was Bird - Mason, New York 1876. It was put up and judged by the proprietor of the Café International, New York. "This spirited offer should have a marked influence in protecting us from the wearying round of French, Sicilian and irregular openings." The Opening was a Fren...

Ray, the 2nd Feb. this year.

" I am bringing out an anthology of my columns: Fifty Shades of Ray to be published by Hardinge Simpole."

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Good title.

No arbiter, It was a league game. I thought briefly about making an appeal but we won the match 4-2.

....that Leicester City would "turn stalemate into checkmate" I have seen a player who was stalemated resign thinking he had been checkmated. It only came to light a few days after the game. Question: if the player had appealed, say about 20 minutes after the game, would he have got his ½ point. Tr...

A few sources, Chess.Com, NIC and now some newspapers are hinting that the inspiration for Beth Harmon could be Diana Lanni, https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessplayer?pid=134171 Bill Wall seems oi have been one of the first to spot the link between the two. "Diana Lanni (1955- ) was once one of th...

I noticed that someone at ChessBomb was trying to defend MVL by saying it was a mouse slip. Of course these things must always be considered in an online game but in this case that is not really an option. 8/8/5pk1/6r1/6R1/6K1/8/8 w - - 0 1 You cannot 'mouse slip' the Rook to anywhere but Rxg5. It w...

Re: (Chess) Life Returning To Normal. John Nunn at Chessbase: https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-under-covid After the pandemic is over John is of the opinion online play may be here to stay, I hope not but I fear he may well be correct. "On the other hand, there are many advantages to online chess...