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Well we scrambled over the line in a big relegation clash. The shock post-game revelation being that had white (for our opponents on board 5) played 30.Qg6 then black was fully intending to resign! And what was happened on board 3 ? I watched on Lichess and Lichess chess analyse shows, that your op...

"The English Chess Federation is organising the Cambridge International Open Chess Tournament. The event will provide an opportunity for participants to achieve INTERNATIONAL TITLE NORMS." If you have to play norms, you cannot play with players without a FIDE rating or with players whose FIDE rating...

Don't waste time thinking about the acceleration system. This tournament in this form is not intended to meet FIDE norms . If paring is based on the ECF rating, it does not meet the FIDE paring requirement f. Even players without a FIDE rating are in the first half of the starting field . Some playe...

January's ratings are out and another great success for ENG girls. 14-year-old Eugenia Karas, who has already surpassed FIDE rating 2000 ( WCM level) , will soon be joined by 14-year-old Nina Pert. Nina is just 1904 FIDE, plus 85 points more in London Christmas Open ( she drew with 2204 and 2148 FID...

Wiki speaks much more : - In 2013, A.Kosteniuk became the first woman to win the men’s (i.e. universal) Swiss Chess Championship.[15] She also won the women Swiss champion title. - A.Kosteniuk has dual Swiss-Russian citizenship.[15] She married Swiss-born Diego Garces, who is of Colombian descent,[3...

Maybe you could use just a reader instead your phone during the game. l use a reader only during the game, so it is only a medical device , no other memory just your blood sugar level measurements. You can check your sugar level anytime you want, also when you are behind the board, you don't need to...

Excelent !

Shouldn't this be open to all refugees? From this information, it seems that the training will be in the Ukrainian language, because the trainers are supposed to be Ukrainians. And it is mostly for kids. So hard to open it to all refugees. It is rather unclear to me why London organizes trainings f...

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and the chief executive of the electric car company Tesla, has said he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year – which could be a record amount of annual tax paid by a single person. (20 Dec 2021)

So 2:0 for Elon Musk in this chess game. Congrats.

Elon Musk insulted former world chess champion Garry Kasparov, who stood up for Ukraine. Garry Kasparov gave an assessment of the latest events, hinting at Elon Musk: “The price is huge, but Ukraine pays this price. So why are the people sitting in the comfort of their Silicon Valley mansions telli...

80 girl's teams is amazing . l was at St. Catherine's School with girls in 2014, more less than 100 girls l think.
Big congratulations to Andrew Martin and to all of you !! Was Mrs. Director for Women Chess there also ?

Good afternoon Matt, l sent a message to you.

Thank you Matt. Congratulations to 14 years old Eugenie Karas to her WCM level success ! l don't know if she is pressing now for a spot on the woman's Olympiad team, but l am sure she showed all the girls who are her age or similar age that it is possible . A pleasant idea to have a group of girls o...

Thank you for the report, Girls played well in Georgia ! I published a report for British Chess News in Facebook, because l had a nice photos of both girls ( Bodhana and Zoe) from Championship's webside . The third girl in Georgia was Hariharan Shambavi, she played in G12 section and her record show...

Will chess return back to the online sector? Some of you may have caught information about the big protest in Prague, held on the 3rd of September. The next protests will be also in Slovakia, are scheduled for 14. and 19. of September ( so sorry , l will not play in Ilkley). What is going on? Accord...