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England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 2:21 pm
by LawrenceCooper
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 2:26 pm
by Thomas Rendle
Two strong teams, that's excellent news!
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2024 4:52 pm
by Ben Purton
Really strong teams, Quite hard to know whom to put board 1 in that team
Good luck England!
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:26 pm
by Mick Norris
Just reviving this thread to transfer discussion from the British Championships thread
Notable no-one thought the team was an issue
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:30 pm
by Angus French
Mick Norris wrote: ↑Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:26 pm
Just reviving this thread to transfer discussion from the British Championships thread
Notable no-one thought the team was an issue
Or expressed an opinion - on this forum?
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Jul 30, 2024 10:34 pm
by Mick Norris
I am used to reading pretty strident opinions on here Angus, but point taken
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:04 am
by Christopher Kreuzer
Five players includes switching round in a four-player team. Am I right that it used to be possible to take 6 players and have 2 reserves, or am I misremembering that. Maybe that was for longer tournaments, or they (FIDE) stopped allowing that?
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Wed Jul 31, 2024 10:09 am
by LawrenceCooper
Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Wed Jul 31, 2024 8:04 am
Five players includes switching round in a four-player team. Am I right that it used to be possible to take 6 players and have 2 reserves, or am I misremembering that. Maybe that was for longer tournaments, or they (FIDE) stopped allowing that?
There used to be six player squads, yes.
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:06 am
by MJMcCready
What's happened to Saddler? Has he jumped federations?
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:53 am
by LawrenceCooper
MJMcCready wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:06 am
What's happened to Saddler? Has he jumped federations?
He doesn't play anymore. He would be our highest rated player if he ever makes a comeback though.
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 6:52 pm
by MJMcCready
LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 7:53 am
MJMcCready wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:06 am
What's happened to Saddler? Has he jumped federations?
He doesn't play anymore. He would be our highest rated player if he ever makes a comeback though.
Has he given up chess again then?
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 7:03 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
His last significant chess activity seems to have been in 2019 or thereabouts.
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Sun Aug 11, 2024 7:54 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
Matthew Sadler has been publishing books (on computer chess) and was blogging and producing YouTube videos regularly until a few months ago:
https://matthewsadler.me.uk/
https://matthewsadler.me.uk/engine-ches ... n-lichess/ (most recent blog, from April 2024)
https://www.youtube.com/@SiliconRoadChess/videos
There are 515 videos on his YouTube channel. Inactive over the board, but I would say that that still counts as significant chess activity.
The fact that the best chess engines can now apparently (from the April 2024 blog) give knight odds to strong grandmasters and still manage a couple of wins at casual blitz time controls is a bit scary (David Navara still won the match overall).
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2024 4:50 pm
by MJMcCready
I also thought such things. So he's involved with the game just not active as a player then.
Re: England teams for the Chess Olympiad
Posted: Tue Aug 13, 2024 6:04 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
Yes, my above post was regarding OTB activity.