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Hi Martin - the board order as reported for Holmes Chapel is a result of our Board 4, Ben Scattergood, being upfloated in Round 1 by the pairings table. In round 1, he played your Board 3 despite being Board 4 in our submitted board order. Triangular matches -arrggh!!

LawrenceCooper wrote:I also think it's very important to ask the players in that age group what would keep them interested.

Castration?

Because you're a rational human being Well, thank you for that, Alex! You are more generous than many of my friends .. However. I owned a Canon 300D digital camera. At the same time, Canon had brought out the 10D, which was more substantial (heavier), and was able to do rather more things than the ...

Well, now you've played one game with it, and know the ropes with them, there's no problem, right? If you used one in another game, you'd know exactly what was going on. Well, Alex, I don't think it's quite as simple as that. When you have played with analogue clocks for as long as I have, the angl...

What a shame. I've just checked at http://www.newportchessclub.org.uk/links.html, where it says that "Newport Chess Club meets each Wednesday from 7pm at the Baneswell Community Centre, Baneswell, Newport." And only Newport Bishops and Newport Rooks are still going. The third is called Newport A, bu...

As a teenager, I used to play for Newport Bishops, one of three teams based in the YMCA. That was 50 years ago. Browsing the web a few months ago, I noticed that three teams with the same names (!) still play in the Newport & District League. If memory serves me right, club night was a Tuesday. Nip ...

matt_ward wrote:I have had many a problem with people not resigning and I guess, at the end of the day, they are not really doing anything wrong.

I have had this problem as well. Over the years, I think it has affected my rating.

Your memory must be playing tricks on you, Pat, as you lost round 2 of the 1960 British Championship to one CM Malcolm. You won three games - against RM Bruce in round 4, JB Hawson in round 6 and and DG Levens in round 10. Which one 'played as a sweeper'? Rats! I thought it was in Round 2 - I looke...

Has anybody ever had an opponent knock all the pieces off the board and storm off as a method of resignation? Yes, in the British Championship at Leicester, 1960. I lost to Leonard Barden in Round 1, and my next opponent must have thought he had an easy draw - I was seventeen years old, played in a...

Excerpt from the programme of the 47th British Championship (1960):

"Five-Minute Chess" is strictly prohibited, as clocks used for the purpose are liable to be damaged.

To my great surprise Staffordshire beat the holders Yorkshire 8.5-7.5. :shock: Obviously the loud music we had to put up with during the games was more distracting to the Yorkshire team than Staffs. At least we could analyse in total peace outside :oops: It was the Stones wot done it! My era ... Pat