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After chess genius Hans Niemann wins Zagreb by 3 clear points and the best performance ( 2946!) of anyone on the planet all year, the organiser of the event said the following in an interview for the Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten: ''Niemann's performance is out of this world, but we have no defini...

I recall playing in the Centenary of the 1886 tournament - except that in the end it ( a 10 player round-robin) happened in 1987.

With the ripple of deflation I have spoken of for more than a decade having at last worked its way up to the top, 2850 is the new 2900.

Very sad to hear. Formerly a driving instructor, we in the chess world knew Geoff as a very correct and reliable arbiter. However, I knew him as much more than that. We often socialised and chatted during meals and/or drinks after events in the Bristol area. Geoff and my brother Nick also made frien...

Snooker players can certainly play to quite an age at a still decent level, and there is a quite a thriving seniors scene in the game now. Good to hear about the snooker senior scene! And some of those seniors seem to still compete at the very top - eg Mark Williams and Ronnie must be closing in on...

There’s £50,000 in the world seniors snooker, and they probably do a lot of appearances at clubs. TV commentary. There must be a lot less pro snooker players than chess players I’d guess?https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Seniors_Championship Cricketers? Coaching I suppose if they want it. With ...

Appearance fees, prizes, simuls, club chess, 4NCL, England teams, lectures, articles, books, Chessable stuff, coaching and private sponsorship are some of the more obvious ways those of us lucky enough to enjoy the pro chess life finance it. I sometimes wonder how snooker players, darts players and ...

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 20, 2023 12:44 pm

Happy birthday, Leonard - you have enriched all chessplayers' lives.

I’ll echo Kevin’s sentiment. Many Happy Returns, Leonard!

Worth looking at Keith defending bishop v rook and pawn Why? I knew that ending was usually a draw, but both players made many mistakes according to chess.com's tablebase evaluation, and it was winning for White in the final position. Near the end, Black missed 76 ... Bb6 to reach an easily drawn p...

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 17, 2023 11:51 am

Hi Keith, yes might call in tomorrow evening, been a busy week, Kristin's reasonably happy with her A level results today so she's off to Hull in a month to do Psychology, and passed her driving test yesterday

Congrats to Kristin on both counts. How time flies!

Hi Mick, Perhaps see you there?

Cheers Mick.

I couldn't find any OTB games for Peter after 1975 so he may have stopped playing OTB chess then. (The 2022 Mega Database includes two 4NCL games from 2010 but they may be confusing him with someone else of the same surname.) I'd completely forgotten but my games collection shows that we played in ...

entrants Interesting that Mark Hebden is playing in the British, but Keith Arkell in the over 50s Hi Mick! This was a difficult decision for me, especially after last year leading the British most of the way through. The problem is I travel back from Poland on Friday and the British starts on Satur...

And in other news the Sun rose this morning in the East and the Pope remains a Catholic. Actually, the sun didn't rise - the earth rotated. You're technically correct from the framework of the Solar System, but on a grander scale uncle Albert taught us that there are no fixed points in space which ...