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Quoting from an email I just received...

I am very sorry to trouble you but I don’t know who to ask. I have two sets of books that I would like to sell.
New in Chess, Volumes 1-50

Chess Informant, Volumes 1-75

If anyone's interested, email dianagardiner@yahoo.com

I remember once using a dimly-remembered bridge rule to settle a question in pairs chess: what should the arbiter rule if a player shouts out a move while it's their partner's turn? My ruling was that the opposition could choose to insist on the move's being played or insist that it not be.

Sounds unusual, yes. The usual explanations for such a phenomenon would be that he had just recently joined the club, or some other strong player had recently left it.

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 8:40 pm

we need to support the ECF

Ah, is it deepity season already? Excellent.

Your being out by one is surprising; I'd expect being out by two to be much more likely.

Ah good, the November one doesn't clash with the FIDE Grand Swiss (the previously listed date did).

If 1793 were too early, your timescale would be very tight, because Philidor died in 1795.

(You might want to check for "Danican" as well; it may be he was using that as his surname.)

The only book on Karpov I've read is Markland's, which I thought was pretty decent.

How about "because the level of skill required to make a good one is really high, and the payoff for reaching that skill level is not"?

(It's not like, say, getting good at cooking, which rewards you most days; you'd probably be getting good at making chess sets to make one chess set.)

I'm not sure that "parasitical" really makes sense for something like a rating system; you don't in any meaningful sense use up FIDE's resources by using its ratings for your tournament.

I think it's something like this: The people of Western Europe and other places with similar modes of thought (such as the USA) have historically had a particular way of thinking about Asia, Africa and Latin America; that way of thinking has led naturally to the current conception of those regions a...

Ah yes, I've seen bits of that show. It distinguishes between wrong answers and impossible answers (the latter of which can't possibly be right because they don't meet a criterion specified in the question).

[Event "Blackpool Minor"][Site "Blackpool"][Round "5"][Date "2020.03.15"][White "Illingworth, John"][Black "Rogers, Simon"][Result "0-1"]1. d4 Nf6 2. g3 g6 3. Bg2 Bg7 4. e4 d6 5. h3 Nd7 6. Be3 e5 7. c3 O-O 8. Qd2 a6 9. Ne2 Rb8 10. a4 Re8 11. d5 Nc5 12. Qc2 h6 13. b4 Ncd7 14. Na3 Kh7 15. c4 Ng8 16. ...

It varies both by county and by region, I think - WECU never had an U-175 competition.