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Might lowest average grade be better than lowest total grade to cater for the situation where there is a default?

This results of this study don't seem at all surprising to me. The idea that mental abilities don't start (even to a small extent) to decline until after the age of 60 on average seems very counter-intuitive (when one considers the age of world chess champions, when mathematicians do their best work...

As above, Player A should continue to record the game. The position is not adjudicated; an obvious and simple example of when an adjudication would be a win, but a 10.2 claim would be a draw is KBN v K where the player with the B and N has not succeeded in driving the opposing K towards the correct...

The only Bishop promotions were where the promoted piece would be captured next move or where someone was prolonging a game against a non-resigner. Probably the most interesting thing to have happened in my time playing chess happened in my game against Steve Boniface from 1995, fifth one from the ...

In choosing a chess move (say which rook to move to a central file) it is surely possible to benefit from good luck. If you happen to choose the right option for the wrong reasons, or for no good reason at all, then you have surely been lucky under any reasonable definition. But taking Stewart Reube...

With apologies to my opponent (who couldn't have been friendlier about it), I was quite pleased with this:

http://www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=2732177

What's the correct form if during a game you become worried that you might have left your phone on (in the same way that you might leave home and worry that the gas has been left on)? Should you dig it out of your jacket and check, or surreptitiously take your jacket with you to the toilet and check...

Tuesday 3 August's Guardian had 'Cunning chess player takes castle after start of play (8)'. Not such a satisfactory clue though for chess palyers, as it seems to feature a highly dubious abbreviation, as discussed here (which also gives the solution - it's 7 down): http://fifteensquared.net/2010/08...