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The bloggers position that this is a situation where there is a clear factual answer and anyone arguing something else is lying seems wrong to me. This is Prof Alex Edmans . As a fellow academic I find his statements... puzzling. There are very few professions that operate under an 'absolute duty o...

The bloggers position that this is a situation where there is a clear factual answer and anyone arguing something else is lying seems wrong to me. This is Prof Alex Edmans . As a fellow academic I find his statements... puzzling. There are very few professions that operate under an 'absolute duty o...

I don't think it is because she is a woman. My impression is that in recent years politicians have been scrutinized more and are likely to come under heavy fire in connection with smaller infringements than in the past. In fact, I'm a bit concerned we might be heading for a scenario in which politi...

100% what Mick Norris just said. A Labour Chancellor, AND a woman, AND not smoothly posh. Triple strike. The British press are a national embarrassment. My German spouse says that to find out what is happening in the UK she reads the Sueddeutsche Zeitung. "More factual coverage, and more objective a...

Wondering if contestant 'Kel' could be Kelechukwu Nkwonta, who plays for the Bolton Chess Club 1st and 2nd teams in the local leagues. He's an 1850-1900 rated player with an attacking style.

Genuinely baffled by the obsession some people on here have with single winners for titles, tie-breaks etc. Probably my age, but... If two players have battled through a lengthy tournament, played multiple play-off games, are mutually respectful, and exhausted, and aren't able to be split after seve...

I'm a bit unconvinced someone could stubble across this forum without some basic knowledge about information on the internet. Talking of which... If I search 'English Chess Forum' using Bing I get this: Your current Bing SafeSearch setting filters out results that might return adult content. To vie...

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Gukesh's Na1 !?! is going to be famous, or at least 'widely hailed', I reckon. Ding spent half his remaining 14 min looking at it and never solved the problem if what to do about Na1-b3-c5. So you could call it kind of a winning move. Going to be tough for Ding to come back from that, surely? He loo...

I was looking at today's extended ending and thinking Ding might be playing for a win though accrued small advantages... In other words, by adopting the patented style of our own Keith Arkell, including the trenchant ...g5! Anyone else think this match is headed inexorably for the tiebreaks? The gam...

Neither specifically chess nor German related, but one of the things that sometimes throws the translation algorithms is abbreviations, notably if the abbreviation is actually also a word in the relevant language. E.g. when I get my French online weather forecast translated into English, the days We...

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Sun Apr 07, 2024 9:08 pm

I hope it survives better than the Farnworth Bradford Street one

That's a bit sad, especially given it had only just gone in. I know some people aren't chess fans, but mindless vandalism of free facilities is deeply depressing.

Nepo wins to move to +2 The other 3 games were drawn, so Gukesh and Caruana on +1 Rest day next Anyone else getting the impression that bits of Carlsen's playing style have rubbed off on Nepo after their 2021 match? Kept thinking all the way through yesterday's win by Nepo that he was playing 'ches...

The other chess table in Bolton today in the sunshine; looks in better nick and a better location in this park too A similar-looking concrete slab - well, two, in fact - has/have just appeared in my local park... we've been wondering what was going to go on them. We were thinking concrete table ten...

As others have said 'Alan would always play', even on very short notice - so very much the sort of club stalwart team captains depend on. A fixture through my first decade at Chorlton (2010-20). Sadly, Alan never returned to the club when we re-opened after the Covid lockdowns. Even before the pande...