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On vaccination, UK is ahead of EU... But on releasing the population from captivity, it isn't. I am very keen to see details of vaccine passports ( still officially denied of course, which means less than nothing ). Will you need just one jab, or two like it says on the box? I may have a reason to ...

TWIC The format has been tweaked for this major, the field has been increased from 12 to 16, in the first major 8 of the 12 players made it through to the second phase and this lead to a lot of caution being rewarded. Players: Magnus Carlsen, Ian Nepomniachtchi, Levon Aronian, Anish Giri, Shakhriya...

Never been to Blackpool chess club, but did play at Poulton once, not sure what competition and who for though; I do remember I was on the white side of an Alekhine, so must have been 30 years ago before I gave up with e4

Too many teams in the same place; if you remember, we had Hinckley Island full and also had to use another hotel a few miles away I enjoyed meeting teams from the South/Midlands too; I think we were unbeaten at Hinckley Island for 2 or 3 seasons because despite finishing bottom of Div 3N we were str...

When Div 3 North started, we merged with Div 3 South for the final bank holiday weekend at Hinckley Island (it was the final 2 weekends at least one year), so that the best teams got promoted; would it be possible to use that format for the top teams?

I'd assume North, Central & South would be run in parallel, subject as previously to hotel availability on the selected dates Div 3 North had 16 teams; might lose both Shropshire teams to Central, and both J'Adoube too; there's then the question of where is most convenient for Manx Liberty, dependin...

Norway chess interview with female arbiters Shohreh Bayat, Anastasia Sorokina and Anemone Kulczak

There have been documents circulated about this which I can post tomorrow if required The 2019-20 season would be abandoned The opportunity would be taken to eventually move to Divisions 1 and 2 being 12 team APAs at a central venue Division 3 would be split into North, Central and South ideally als...

I've seen a Word document, and an Excel spreadsheet, which presumably is what is referred to

Maybe worth a separate thread?

A big event requires a lot of organisation in advance. You cannot just put it on at short notice. Let me give a quick example that you wouldn't have thought of. Where do you think the congress gets the tables from? What do you think the price will be given pent up demand from weddings? If you agree...

IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 07, 2021 10:24 pm

You qualify for the Candidates.

As does the runner up

It will be most interesting to see if van Foreest has jumped a level and can demonstrate it again like he did in January

Grandelius might be favourite though

website

Karpov , Grandelius, Jorden van Foreest, Liem Le, Navara, Shirov, Harika Dronavalli, Nihal Sarin

schedule

Just booked jabs 1 and 2 via the NHS website

Over 55s don't have to wait for the invitation