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soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 9:29 am

What do you call babies who still drink milk? I think it cannot be 'infant', as infant covers only1 year of age.

Suckling. (assuming you mean they drink only milk). It's a bit archaic though, and is more commonly used with reference to animals, e.g. 'suckling pig'.

Barrow AFC chairman Paul Hornby, writing in today's match programme on the frustrations of trying to sign players during the transfer window - "At times it’s almost like playing chess and waiting for teams higher up to make their move. "

"What does it mean by 'valid' in no 7?" I took it to mean that you could use them in shops and nobody would complain. "Valid" might mean that shops should accept them... Well, they are not legal tender (not even in Scotland) so no shop is obliged to accept them. However, if any shopkeeper refused t...

"What does it mean by 'valid' in no 7?" I took it to mean that you could use them in shops and nobody would complain. "Valid" might mean that shops should accept them... Well, they are not legal tender (not even in Scotland) so no shop is obliged to accept them. However, if any shopkeeper refused t...

What does it mean by 'valid' in no 7?

Not quite the same thing - undeveloping a knight to the other knight's starting square. This appeared in the December issue of Chess magazine. [Event "Chicago"] [Site "?"] [Date "1989.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Rachels, S"] [Black "Gaillard, E"] [Result "*"] [Annotator "Sean Marsh"] [ECO "B00"] [Ev...

I wish pundits would stop the .."it's like a game of chess." every time a game gets a bit turgid it's thoughtless, lazy and makes my blood boil!! Rant over. It's used so often these days in football commentaries that it's hardly worth reporting any more. Even Barrow v Scunthorpe was a game of chess...

John Upham wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 15, 2021 4:27 pm

One of the more extreme examples of this is the Brooklyn Variation of the Alekhine Defence. Not to everyone's taste.

I'd never heard of this before, but as soon as I read your post I thought it must be 2...Ng8. Has been played in Blitz by quite a few top GMs.

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 13, 2021 2:37 pm

I think that one "of" at the end of that quote should be something else?

'and' would make sense.

I was wondering who the two female players were in the picture of the 1985 Varsity match. John Saunders' Britbase site has a picture of two different players, Laura Cohen (Cambridge) vs Anita Rakshit (Oxford). One of the pictures must have the wrong date? Perhaps Leonard Barden can enlighten us, as ...

I thought it was decent. I knew about quite a lot of the goings on already, but there was quite a lot more that I didn't know. Interesting to hear the views of some of the other players, including from those who were probably too young to have known much about it at the time, e.g. Anand, Adams, Svid...

Apologies if I'm opening a can of worms with this one but it is possible to construct a checkmate with K+B vs K+B (provided the bishops are on opposite coloured squares) and two inexperienced juniors might conceivably arrive at such a position. Naturally it's a helpmate but put a black king on h8 a...

This is pure speculation, but I wonder if, when several threads are being analysed simultaneously, they are for some reason allocated different amounts of system resources (e.g. RAM, CPU share) which makes them perform differently. I don't have Stockfish but I've noticed the version used by Chessbom...

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 29, 2020 7:52 am

What's the difference between 'toward' and 'towards'?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-a ... ards-usage

I remember his 'double act' with Andrew Martin at the British, it was very entertaining.