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Finally I have opened a new topic for the Top Division. There are a couple of threads such as "So starts the 31st season" and "Dates and Venues" but these seem to be general topics - consequently here is a discrete section to discuss Division One.

Just one game still in progress in division One. The name of one of the players would be familiar to connoisseurs of lengthy games.

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https://lichess.org/broadcast/4ncl-2024 ... O/xSqV8c1C

Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:48 pm

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It's a game where they could have given up at move 30.

Cheddleton's team is interesting - 3 Perts yesterday, 4 today, plus Hebden and Arkell playing in the same team

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 8:05 pm

Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:48 pm

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It's a game where they could have given up at move 30.

I played through this "game" - did any position repeat three times? I completely lost track of where the pieces had shuffled to.

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:43 am

Cheddleton's team is interesting - 3 Perts yesterday, 4 today, plus Hebden and Arkell playing in the same team

It was also four yesterday, with Nick on 1 and Richard on 4.

The very definition of what Fischer called pushing wood.

This is by far the worst example I've ever seen, in the past I did wonder if it was both players simply refusing to draw but at this stage it seems clear cut who the perpetrator is. I really don't get what point lalic is trying to make, is it some sort of weird protest against increments, is it to try and set some pointless record of the most moves ever played in a game, trying to hold his opponent hostage in the hope that they literally die on the board or is it simply belligerently wasting everybody's time just because he can?

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 10:14 am

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:43 am

Cheddleton's team is interesting - 3 Perts yesterday, 4 today, plus Hebden and Arkell playing in the same team

It was also four yesterday, with Nick on 1 and Richard on 4.

They could have done with a few more today - experts. Manx have played 16 games so far with no losses recorded

Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:48 pm

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https://lichess.org/broadcast/4ncl-2024 ... O/xSqV8c1C

What was the point of that? The WIM was never going to collapse and lose. And it was only 181 moves.

Just imagine how much more annoying Peter could be if high-level events still had the 40/150' + 16/60' thereafter time control.

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:44 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 10:14 am

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:43 am

Cheddleton's team is interesting - 3 Perts yesterday, 4 today, plus Hebden and Arkell playing in the same team

It was also four yesterday, with Nick on 1 and Richard on 4.

They could have done with a few more today - experts. Manx have played 16 games so far with no losses recorded

They aren't the only team with that record though.

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 9:10 pm

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:44 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 10:14 am

It was also four yesterday, with Nick on 1 and Richard on 4.

They could have done with a few more today - experts. Manx have played 16 games so far with no losses recorded

They aren't the only team with that record though.

.....but I couldn't use the ex Perts line with Wood Green. Incidentally I have a + record against the Wood Green team (P3 W1 D2 L0) - unfortunately I am unavailable.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 24, 2024 8:56 pm

Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 23, 2024 7:48 pm

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https://lichess.org/broadcast/4ncl-2024 ... O/xSqV8c1C

What was the point of that? The WIM was never going to collapse and lose. And it was only 181 moves.

Stranger things have happened, though not very often admittedly.