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Zhao-Longson. 16...Rc3 is begging to be played. If the exchange sac ever works, it is here. Figured must have missed something, so on with the PC. Skynet agrees. Bosh.

carrying on from Stewart: RZA from Wu Tang Clan is famously a big fan: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/music/07clan.html http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEa8aOZYcTY Closer to home, purveyors of masterly sardonic social satire, Half Man Half Biscuit. And my favourite group: http://www.youtube.c...

Agree, an awful piece. Trolling dressed up (barely) as an article. No sense of history, minimal knowledge shown of either Korea, bewildering ignorance. For those of you interested in DPRK, Sue Lloyd-Roberts's work was amazing. Here to get going: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8701959.stm Required viewin...

Harry is of course right that d.o.b. should be kept out of the public arena. Not just banks of course, online ID theft more of an issue. Remember from IT teaching, we were hammered on this in the training as we were responsible for student records and for teaching school kids to be careful. Forced t...

"How about providing small soundproof containers for those competitors who are not absolutely sure about their mobile phone's status" Indeed. Not sure where organisers could find such. Do you have the name of a reliable supplier at zero cost? Or maybe players could make their own and bring. Shoe box...

Knew Rachel a fair few years back. Top lass. She was a decent player. I think she went to a fair few tournaments, including the British, a genuine player as a kid. Wouldn't surprise me too much to read that she had won one of the titles somewhere along the way. Yes, her younger sister Ellie played t...

Best of luck with this Nick, Simon and all. Splendid idea to combine with guest speakers. Interesting to have the psychology component. Educational psychology presumably? Any particular areas therein? Generous to see that the price includes food too. Something to consider is making lectures availabl...

I am intrigued by those folk who lump together huge swathes of incredibly disparate peoples.
To pick just one, what is happening with Asians exactly? What is the trap? Really thought Edward Said had largely put paid to such.

Interesting theoretical issue here. Highest rateds thus appears to be favoured with whites as highest rateds, thus given an extra boost. Is this correct from what Bates san has noted above? If so (would like to see meta-analysis of this across several hundred tournaments) two possible solutions come...

Do we have a description of the T-shirt from those present? Tasteful? A garish affair? Jimmy Somerville wedged between d5 and f5 pawns perhaps. Would work. Whimsy aside. Best not jump on this as a gay prejudice thing. Thought that had died a decade or two back, long gone, no? Nowt of the sort I woul...

Interesting to read. Am a liberal expat liberal arts uni lecturer here, and an occasional player. I simply object to T-shirts in professional settings. I have strong views regarding the Japanese government's lack of consideration toward the people, and lack of action toward those people who live nea...

http://www.karpov2010.org/2010/07/kirsans-inaction-broken-promise-in-khanty-mansiysk/ What's Russian for Fawlty Towers? :shock: I think you should pay a visit here . Which takes us to one of my favourite lyrics by HMHB: "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets" http://www.you...

For some reason this incident reminds me of a famous dispute at Hastings about fifteen years ago, when a player insisted that he couldn't play without having a large mascot next to the board. His opponent objected that the mascot was extremely off-putting, a view upheld by the arbiter. I remember i...