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- Sun Oct 30, 2022 4:35 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
And Humpy loses it on a blunder!
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:47 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 2:43 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
- Replies: 1114
- Views: 83237
Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2
Hang on, is this the "100%" which has been comprehensively rubbished elsewhere?
- Sun Oct 30, 2022 7:37 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
- Replies: 1114
- Views: 83237
Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2
For legal reasons all are careful with their wording though, or don't say anything at all. If they're not saying anything at all then their opinions can't really be taken into account, and I don't just mean legally. I was referring to those who haven't spoken publicly at all about this business, eg...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:06 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
Mariya is out, but Anna on the brink of forcing a play-off
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 11:34 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
- Replies: 1114
- Views: 83237
Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2
If I was on a jury I would remember the case of Sally Clark, who was convicted of murder after the cot death of her two babies. There was no physical evidence, and the prosecution case relied pretty much entirely on the opinion of an expert witness. It took two appeals, and the eventual exposure of...
- Sat Oct 29, 2022 7:36 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
- Replies: 1114
- Views: 83237
Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2
If they're not saying anything at all then their opinions can't really be taken into account, and I don't just mean legally.Keith Arkell wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 6:28 amFor legal reasons all are careful with their wording though, or don't say anything at all.
- Fri Oct 28, 2022 5:41 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
Game 3 today, will be interesting to see how the sisters handle it It has been: they both opted for the kind of variations where you exchaneg the queens in return for having a horrid-looking position and while Anna's been comfortable enough against Humpy [EDIT: agreed drawn shortly after posting] M...
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 5:42 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
Ah OK, I stand corrected. I wonder how I came to be under that impresssion.
- Thu Oct 27, 2022 4:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742073
Re: Media comments on chess
For some reason El País in English has a piece today about decision-making which cites somebody called Adriana Hernández, who, in a book called The Game of Life, apparently quotes (or very slightly mis-quotes ) Frank Marshall as saying a bad plan is better than no plan at all. It also says of Marsha...
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 8:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2x2 pawn squares
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2046
Re: 2x2 pawn squares
Move 23
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 7:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2x2 pawn squares
- Replies: 11
- Views: 2046
2x2 pawn squares
During a blitz game on lichess today the following position arose (I had the black pieces) with an unusual pawn formation. https://i.postimg.cc/kXLLt9Rr/Chess-testudo.png I don't think I've ever had this in my games before, though I've seen it, and even once made an apparently unsuccessful attempt t...
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 6:12 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
Mariya v Lei a solid draw today but Humpy missed a chance to beat Anna. Both twins up against it on Friday (rest today tomorrow) as a loss would see them eliminated.
- Wed Oct 26, 2022 1:24 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Pedro Almodóvar
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2407
Re: Pedro Almodóvar
Claim to fame: we once pulled up outside a cafe/restaurant next to a petrol station below Medinaceli, just off the Zaragoza-Madrid motorway, and Leonor Watling from that movie was outside having a fag.
- Tue Oct 25, 2022 7:39 pm
- Forum: Women's Chess
- Topic: Women's Candidates matches
- Replies: 39
- Views: 8150
Re: Women's Candidates matches
Her sister fared little better