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With LMS, instead of waiting for the 7/14/21/28 update, one can accelerate the results so that they're rated overnight. Not a secret I had uncovered. How does it work? Not a secret at all - https://www.englishchess.org.uk/running-club-or-league-events-on-the-lms-and-getting-them-ecf-rated/ .

Currently on the BBC home page - The Indian siblings taking the chess world by storm.

Paolo Casaschi wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 06, 2023 12:49 pm

Last move 54. Rd1 1/2-1/2

Were the last few moves recorded on lichess not played?

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 03, 2023 6:46 pm

So does this mean that both Cumberland and Westmorland/Furness unitaries have got them?

Yes - see the table listing who's got them in the replies to the Twitter post Gerard referred to.

An update on where the chess tables are to be located: https://twitter.com/JackTShaw/status/1730941649478418883 So, as the scheme was under subscribed, any LA that wanted a table could have got one. It also appears that roughly 1 in 6 of all LA's that could have applied did. Was this a missed oppor...

Was reading this Guardian article from nearly a year ago: Dig deep and think as hard as possible’ – the secrets of success in Scrabble, Sudoku, Jenga and more The chess connection in the article, by the way, is at the bottom: ... and in the middle. Good or bad advice from Jennifer Shahade on how to...

I'm a bit embarrassed to admit I didn't see this here or the ECF website until the recent board minutes published. Neither did I, which makes me think it either didn't, or only very briefly, appeared on the ECF website home page. A pity Shohreh stepping down, particularly if indicates she is steppi...

Hans Niemann warms up for the Classic by winning an all-play-all three points clear of the other nine GMs! https://chess-results.com/tnr852516.aspx?lan=1&art=1&flag=30 Ivan Sokolov's thoughts on this: "It is hard to fight 98 accuracy. "There are (apart delay) no anti cheating measures. Not even a s...

I agree, I am not sure exactly where the line is on 'bringing the game of chess into disrepute', but this has crossed it by a long way IMO. Shuffling around to try out different plans is one thing, but there is clearly no point behind these moves other than to deliberately waste time. One reason fo...

If I wanted a consoldated pgn file of all the games, is there a shortcut? Obviously the long winded route is available, namely create a text file by pasting all the games into it. Assuming you're using a Windows PC, put all the pgn files in one folder, open a command prompt, go to that folder and r...

The format of the Champions Chess Tour confuses me. I'm not surprised. If you were trying to create a convoluted format you'd do well to beat the format of the Champions Chess Tour. One curious rule I noticed in the regulations that I've never seen used anywhere else is that in the CCT finals next ...

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 20, 2023 11:36 am

It's irrelevant, most importantly would Diggle object to having his works made more accessible?

If Diggle has sold/given the rights to his work to someone else, that's also irrelevant.

Levy Rozman has just been on Radio 4's Saturday Live. He spoke occasionally throughout the programme, but his main piece was at the end, starting at about 50 minutes into the programme.

My daughter's just started Psychology at Hull; today they have been doing Chess Expertise, with reference to DeGroot (1865) and Chase&Simon (1973) They have been told it takes 3,000 hours to become an expert, and 30,000 to be a chess master so about 10 years Did she question what she was being told...

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2023 3:30 pm

Three pages devoted to Penguin self-glorification? I will give that a miss thanks

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 07, 2023 5:08 pm

Nowhere near as bad as some might imagine, quite good in fact. (RDK's favourite film is; 'Conan the Barbarian' Ray added the original version, not the remake.)

Now available on the ChessBase website.