English Chess Forum

No worries Mike :) Just a bit disappointed that so few English players appeared and at the lack of interest shown in what was a really good event. The lack of top Scots playing is mainly down to the fact that we have a lack of top Scots! It doesn't help that McNab, Shaw, Aagaard and Greet, who might...

Iirc correctly English GM's, exclusively, were recently offered conditions by a private individual whereas 3-times British Champion Jonathan Rowson among other Scots wasn't even contacted/invited/offered anything to defend his title - hardly likely to tempt the Scottish GM's to play the British, tho...

The only name I can find associated with Chess News Agency is Ludmila Smirnova who appears to be their one and only press officer, and to be honest she is otherwise anonymous on the internet?! Another Nom de Guerre in the fight against Kasparov?

Just for the record, it was fantastic having the Indian contingent playing in Glasgow: some excellent players who fought tooth and nail the entire event (including in almost every game with each other, and in the last round too) and a real pleasure to be around away from the board as well. Having ri...

ChessNewsAgency do share the same address as Belarusians-in-Exile (it is a big building however)...can anyone think of a possible link there? To be honest, the politics involved would seem to put Kasparov closer to the Belarusians, and I don't see any chess links/references/figures involved in the B...

Also a couple of blogs covering the event, although as we are both either playing or arbiting/helping run the show they are necessarily quite brief!

http://www.streetfightingchess.com/comm ... s-round-1/

http://whodbe.blogspot.co.uk/

A short review of SFC Monthly can be read here (3rd review down)

http://www.chessscotland.com/news/?p=255

Having spoken to a couple of titled players today, it would seem that the conditions offered were not good enough, particularly in view of the Indian presence (which as Nigel mentions above might/would likely include sponsored players). That being said, having heard some of the 'fees' which players ...

No money offered... Did you actually enquire about this Nigel? I do know there was a relatively substantial budget (£25,000 was given by an anonymous benefactor) though how much of this was set aside for 'conditions' I have no idea. The majority of the top players entered so far are Indian - perhap...

A question asked today on our CS forum...

A week to go and not a single GM or IM from England? Anyone know why?

http://www.chessscotland.com/forum/view ... f=4&t=1091

which might better be answered on this forum

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