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Well I would start here : https://chess-calendar.eu/index.php?searchquery=weekend&localisation=Leeds,ENG with a search for a Weekend Tournament. Luckily "Weekend" is used by quite a few languages. You will find quite a few will be Rapidplay tournaments. The French Website (which is v good) http://ww...

It seems EC Forum Ltd is a subsidiary of Vaping Dotcom Ltd

https://find-and-update.company-informa ... y/09111643

Same address. I'm guessing the EC stands for e-cigarette or "Electronic Cigarette"

Stanley Gibbons used to issue Thematic Catalogues

I think their last one for Chess on Stamp collectors was back in 1999 so it will be a little out of date.

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https://www.waterstones.com/book/collec ... 0852594711

but a 2nd hand one might pop up on ebay...

Hi Adam,

Not really a tournament - more of club night

Here's a pic of the canal nearby, playing conditions and an action pic of Fabio opening up.

Chris

Just back from several days in Venice. One afternoon, having caught the sun using the waterbus pass for lunch in Murano, I suggested we explore the less touristy, perhaps shadier, parts of Venice. Heading into the Castello district late afternoon, zigzagging to the East, at just after 5 pm we found ...

I reckon it is up to each player to decide for themselves how to handle this. You may allow the take-back to be sporting. Or you may take the view that wisdom comes through suffering and you are helping your opponent wise up to the problem by refusing. Mouse-slips can be due to a poor track-pad, a f...

I also have a copy of Principles of Chess (4th edition 1902) with the same picture and signature on the frontispiece as in the Art of Chess as shown above. Under the title there's a printed quote : Keiner sei gleich dem andern, doch gleich sei jeder dem Höchsten! Wie das zu machen? Es sei jeder voll...

From The Art of Chess 1895

A good film. Thanks for pointing it out on channel 91 which I otherwise would have missed.

Just back from the usual well run and enjoyable Congress at Imperial College. https://union.ic.ac.uk/rcc/chess/2017/01/central-london-chess-congress-at-imperial-college-april-2017/ Round 4 Sunday morning and two players both with the black pieces near me get up for a stroll at around move 10. One co...

... the Greek U12 superstar from Athens ...

"I’d wager the young chap/chapess has not actually done that him / herself."

You are quite right - He has completed Books 1 & 2 and is currently tucking into the 3rd...

"I’d wager the young chap/chapess has not actually done that him / herself."

I'll ask him tomorrow

Not much to report on the book front at Paleochora, Crete. We had a 1 hr power cut around 90 mins into round 8 just at twilight. Everyone still playing piled outside into the town square and waited. I paused the clock and after a few mins or so offered my opponent the draw as the cuts have been 3 hr...

Well Rd4 brought a nice tactical win by Daniel with more forks pins and skewers than a kebab shop cutlery draw. Nathan went into R & 5P v R & 3P but ended up at the time control R&2 v R&1. His King traveled from c3 to e7 then back to g1 to eventually collect the passed pawn on g3 and win. My opponen...

In Round 2 there was a 1 second power cut so the building alarm went off. Other than that no major upsets apart from a prolonged “touched & move” discussion on one of the lower boards. Nathan Alfred and Daniel Gallagher were both on 2/2. With quite a few GM’s on 1.5, drawing with Black against oppon...