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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Major investment to transform future of English chess announced
- Replies: 137
- Views: 13740
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:08 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37384
Re: Britbase Updates
No idea, I didn't start going to the Lud Eagle club until late 1945 or 1946.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37384
Re: Britbase Updates
[quote= I think their top board was Mieses, who lost to Croydon's DR Lester. [/quote] . A couple of other minor inaccuracies in memory , but forgivable given that this was nigh on 80(!) years ago... [/quote] I make it at least six errors in a short paragraph, so a more accurate summary would be that...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 11:56 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4850
Re: Reykjavik 2024
Board 2 tomorrow: FM Sohum Lohia 2354 1 1 GM Vasyl Ivanchuk 2625 https://www.chess.com/events/2024-reykjavik-open/02/Lohia_Sohum-Ivanchuk_Vasyl ...and draw just agreed, in a better ending for Lohia! https://lichess.org/broadcast/reykjavik-open-2024/round-2/AQq1bHyz/NZ966siD That's a big rating boos...
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 2:38 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4850
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:02 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37384
Re: Britbase Updates
I played for Croydon against a West London team including Captain Beamish some time in 1945 (probably autumn). I vaguely remember looking at his game and thinking, yes, he does have a military air. My opponent was Dr SP Schotz, on or around Board 15, so the Captain and I may have been quite close. I...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Bodhana Sivanandan's first 2000+ FIDE classical rating
- Replies: 3
- Views: 416
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 9:28 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 2nd Cambridge International Open
- Replies: 109
- Views: 13574
Re: 2nd Cambridge International Open
The round 7 draw just up is headed by Willow v Tiviakov. Fernandez, who shares the lead with them. is shown unpaired and with a zero. Can anybody tell this hack with a deadline to catch what that's all about?
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 8:03 am
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 2nd Cambridge International Open
- Replies: 109
- Views: 13574
Re: 2nd Cambridge International Open
Curiously the same K+B+N v K ending occurred in Round 3 in the game Lazarus v Saine. Black won.
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.a ... 11519&rd=3
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.a ... 11519&rd=3
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 9:01 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Sir George Alan Thomas
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8087
Re: Sir George Alan Thomas
Great to hear about the coming bio on Thomas! Anybody here that also have a clue if he had something against C.O.H´D Alexander, not giving him a single point before Saltsjöbaden 1948? I knew them both and never heard or saw any evidence of mutual antipathy. Probably just Thomas believing that he sh...
- Sat Feb 17, 2024 7:58 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1333
Re: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
An opponent taking one of his own pieces actually happened to me in England v Italy in the 1960 Clare Benedict tournament.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2000390
I can still recall the sense of shock when my opponent suddenly leaned over and grabbed my c8 bishop.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2000390
I can still recall the sense of shock when my opponent suddenly leaned over and grabbed my c8 bishop.
- Fri Feb 16, 2024 8:38 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Sir George Alan Thomas
- Replies: 30
- Views: 8087
Re: Sir George Alan Thomas
Sad that there will, probably, be no bio on, Sir George Thomas. I received a message from Jon Manley in October 2023 saying that he had been invited to co-write a book on Thomas (he didn't say who the other author(s) are/were). He had been touch with Paige, who had nothing further to add, and had a...
- Thu Dec 28, 2023 7:23 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
- Replies: 145
- Views: 13751
Re: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
Firouzja has beaten Kamsky to go to 6-0, round 7 tomorrow 9am.
https://www.2700chess.com/games/firouzj ... 2023-12-28
In tomorrow morning's final round Firouzja plays Black against 2275-rated Kamran Shirazi, aged 71 and a former champion of Iran.....
https://www.2700chess.com/games/firouzj ... 2023-12-28
In tomorrow morning's final round Firouzja plays Black against 2275-rated Kamran Shirazi, aged 71 and a former champion of Iran.....
- Wed Dec 27, 2023 7:53 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
- Replies: 145
- Views: 13751
Re: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
The Chartres matches are no longer mentioned at https://ratings.fide.com/rated_tourname ... ountry=FRA, although Rouen along with completed December events are listed for rating in the January list.
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 10:12 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
- Replies: 145
- Views: 13751
Re: 2024 Candidates qualification revised process
It's listed for rating on January 1, as far as I could see, but the Chartres event has been deleted, suggesting that Firo may need 7/7 at Rouen and to meet and defeat all three 2400+ players.