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Am I the only elderly player who enjoys facing enthusiastic young opponents and doesn't obsess over whether they might be underrated? No you're not, it's much more interesting to face a variety of opponents, and after all rating declining with age is just a fact of life, however much one might want...

Somebody - on twitter I think - said it was nicely on-brand that the lorry parked diagonally.

In the south, Hastings to Chicester is 65miles, but I think they play in different leagues despite both being Sussex. Correct, though Chichester or Bognor v Hastings can be a possible fixture in knockout competitions. Horsham v Hastings is the longest journey in Sussex for a regular evening league ...

Cute interview with 79 year old Peter Lee and 8 year old Bodhana Sivanandan also showing clips of 3 10 minute games they played. Peter was overtired by the 3rd gsme. At the Atheneum club. https://youtu.be/BSzZwRBJVvY?si=yzFYcXHXKr-gpFac Yesterday in the Sussex v Middlesex match, Bodhana Sivanandan ...

Whoops Ummm, yes but then... I really don't get why they came back the next day, just to play two 10 min games and an Armageddon; why not at least play 1/2 hour games or maybe another two 10 minute games. The whole thing was over in an hour. it was odd that Yu's mistake in the Armageddon was almost...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 18, 2022 11:10 pm

Absolute tragedy for Yu

Shocker.

Meanwhile Thalia Cervantes has gone from 3/7 to 8/12 and is no longer tilting at windmills; could even win the tournament if she beats Yu in the last round.

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Tue Oct 18, 2022 6:38 pm

Board 6 appears to be an all Mark Page clash

a draw apparently; guess they were evenly matched.

As well as what John mentioned above, there was a wider context described in Malcolm Pein's address on international, of the difficulty England juniors have in improving their FIDE ratings given the shortage of FIDE rated competitions in England. So parents of juniors were looking for good rated tou...

I think they just wanted those people that favoured in-person to have the option; that's allowing, not insisting, a very big difference. So they guessed what I wanted ( having not listened to what I said )*, voted for that, got it wrong and now we're stuck with yet another hybrid event to which nob...

Well you won your motion for Leeds / Manchester to be included in the rotation and also the motion was amended so that one of those would be the venue for 2023, rather than wait. There were no votes against I think.

Well done.

I just doubt the cat can be put back in the bag. But sure, something is lost. My point is that in the mean time we seem to be persisting with the hybrid approach, having proved twice that people won't go, and it is the people who won't go that are insisting on it. I don't agree they are insisting o...

Nobody on zoom said anything about thinking other people should be there in-person. A number of people on zoom thought the in-person option should remain as a choice, that's all. Yes, but the only reason to hold face to face meetings is so that people who go can meet others whom they would otherwis...

The people who were not in Birmingham were sure they did not need to be in Birmingham. Other people were entitled to make their own decisions. Quite. Nobody on zoom said anything about thinking other people should be there in-person. A number of people on zoom thought the in-person option should re...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 17, 2022 11:03 pm

J T Melsom wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 17, 2022 10:26 pm

Nick

I cannot comment on any technology issues that you experienced but I found the material via the link to council papers provided by John Reyes up thread.

So can you see my address or not?

Yes it's there, and very clear and succinct it is too.

There was also a catastrophe in the top board game: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/chessable-british-championship-2022/1/1/1 And in the other game featuring one of our Olympiad players: https://chess24.com/en/watch/live-tournaments/chessable-british-championship-2022/1/1/25 Edit: writ...