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Vaccines alone will not stop Covid spreading - here's why The Swiss cheese model Many of us are hoping vaccines against coronavirus will be our route out of lockdown, enabling us to reclaim our old lives. But scientists say jabs alone will not currently be enough and other measures are still needed.

The three sizeable countries with the highest vaccination rates are Israel, Chile and the UK. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/israel-and-chile-both-led-on-covid-jabs-so-why-is-one-back-in-lockdown and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/is-vaccinating-against-covid-eno...

The three sizeable countries with the highest vaccination rates are Israel, Chile and the UK. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/israel-and-chile-both-led-on-covid-jabs-so-why-is-one-back-in-lockdown and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/is-vaccinating-against-covid-eno...

2019/20 rules 1.2 Each team in Division 1 must include at least one male player and at least one female player. 1.3 Each team in Division 2 must contain representatives of at least two of the following categories: adult male players; adult female players; junior players who are under 18 years on 11...

Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:40 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:27 pm

Naka tried to take a (losing) move back a few years ago, didn't he?

That probably didn't go down well with many of his peers, now that you mention it.

Yes. Against Aronian.

There was also a double handed castling incident in a play-off game but I forget the details.

Pete Doggers

The 2019/20 regional stages were completed, I think; G Man qualified for the u160 National Stages, which have now been abandoned This seems fair enough to me, as getting enough players willing to travel long distances to play county matches OTB is going to be considerably harder, I'm not sure I fanc...

Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:44 pm

FWIW I also feel the wider chess community is underperforming in terms of how it responds to cheating and unethical behaviour

Indeed, but I doubt we're surprised about that

Syzygy 7 man endgame tablebase too

Recommended minimum charity trustees is five so, even with Eric Schiller's passing, they're presumably still on the right side of that - although, in this case, three are family members and can't by any stretch be considered independent. That's a situation which I imagine many would consider unsati...

Recommended minimum charity trustees is five so, even with Eric Schiller's passing, they're presumably still on the right side of that - although, in this case, three are family members and can't by any stretch be considered independent. That's a situation which I imagine many would consider unsati...

In Manchester, we're launching the second edition of our online individual , currently holding our first online congress, the second edition of our online league is ongoing, we won the Open and u1825 online MCCU county championships , as well as the online u1825 challengers ECF county championships ...

There is lots of information about chess in the rest of the North West

TWIC final report The winners were SF Deizisau e.V. with top board Matthias Bluebaum (2.5 points from 8 games), Alexander Donchenko (4.5/8), Georg Meier (5/8), Andreas Heimann (1/4), Vincent Keymer (5.5/7) and Dmitrij Kollars (2/3) - won 6 matches, drew 2 and lost 1. Clichy Echecs 92 (Jorden Van Fo...

Thank you for the responses received to my discussion document. These allowed the Home Director and I to tailor our recommendations to the Board for the outstanding 2019-2022 competitions, which were accepted and have led to the two motions brought by the Board to Finance Council set for 24th April...

There's a bit about Long Covid on the BBC website which is summed up by Long Covid is an emerging phenomenon that is not yet fully understood This follows on from Covid jab probably does protect those around you Think of it as a ladder, with the worst Covid effects - intensive-care admission or deat...