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The interview with Andy Howie was really useful as we get a lot of insight as to how an arbiter operates both for online and OTB chess. I don't actually have any issues with how OTB is handled but how online cheating is handled is the main concern for me. Personally, I have felt that online cheating...

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New Zealand Chess Championships Open Section Round 9 Pairings Points in brackets 1. FM Nicholas Croad (6.5) v (5) CM David Cilia Vincenti 2. Felix Xie (5.5) v (6) FM Ben Hague 3. IM Anthony Ker (5.5) v (5) FM Robert Smith 4. Sashikumar (4.5) v (5) FM Leonard McLaren 5. IM Russell Dive (4.5) v (4.5)...

Sean Parker wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 11, 2021 1:09 pm

Yes that's right.....no need for the Chess Police either the board is legal!
I believe the villain playing the combination was Kronstein or Kronsteen...

Here's the clip and notice how Kronsteen carefully takes a piece with a lighted cigarette in hand.

There is a lot here even an offer from FIDE to provide a free lawyer if those accused of cheating cannot afford one! Where is that? My apologies, I didn't check this properly before I put the post out. This was not in the regulations but merely a demand that someone asked for in response to para 4 ...

Fide have now produced regulations for online chess and a thread has been started here

Fide have now produced regulations for online chess and a thread has been started here

Thought I'd start a new thread with this major announcement regarding FIDE regulating online chess. Here is the press release which contains a pdf of the new regulations. There is a lot here even an offer from FIDE to provide a free lawyer if those accused of cheating cannot afford one!

Very nice clip from 1966, but who is Jonathan? I'm informed that the little boy with the toffee apple who is playing Martin Bell is Jonathan Christopher Benjamin who passed away in 2000. If it is him, I remember him when I was just starting to play chess and there are games of his on the database. ...

Yeah its a realistic decision by the Southend organisers I would think. Yesterdays Covid numbers were very scary and its little wonder that no one would want to organise a tournament in roughly 12 weeks time with a very good chance it would be cancelled anyway. The vaccines are unlikely to arrest th...

Here is his last round game If they detected engine assistance it could well have been in the opening and early middle game. Those Botvinnik English positions arise time and time again and are usually very similar. Plenty of ground for in depth investigation of middle game ideas and let's repeat, c...

A three minute tournament the Levitov Chess Christmas Cup V was held on Lichess recently. The winner, GM Grizzly Bear 79 rated 2753 won it with a performance rating of 2942. He has since been banned and his account closed, the player concerned was allegedly none other that Parham Maghsoodloo but was...

A French player from Chartres Marc Andria Maurizzi won in Round 9 and achieved his first GM norm at 13 years, 7 months and 6 days. (Lennart Ootes - photo) https://scontent-lhr8-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/132499683_3562648133774170_2388652897972812034_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&ccb=2&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=0jkPU...

Interview by the Times of Malta on Charlie Storey who is living in Malta at the moment and intends to run a Masters Tournament in Sliema starting this Saturday. His new idea has been to set up the Queen's Gambit Academy to attract more women players to the game. I did speak to one of the few rated p...

I've just had a look at the obits section Simon and I'm shocked at the number of people who have died this year. Have to say a magnificent job done by you to list as many as you have. Thank you.