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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 9:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: County Chess Longest Playing Player
- Replies: 4
- Views: 255
Re: County Chess Longest Playing Player
John Cannon must run Gillian Moore quite close /viewtopic.php?f=46&t=11415 My own contribution to his 515 county matches was a rather nondescript draw where I spent more time travelling there and back than playing chess.
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The going rate
- Replies: 2
- Views: 423
Re: The going rate
Feel free to peruse the numbers here https://www.englishchess.org.uk/event-calendar/ but a quick straw poll, London(ish)-centric. £30 easily. £40 as a ballpark/starting point, assuming you have the required ECF membership category. Last year the most expensive British Championship fee was £300 (or £...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 12:56 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4062
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Oh the joys of the days when "name" was interpreted as "first initial and surname", and of unintelligible writing and a lack of validation when reporting. Almost guaranteed to cause graders self-induced alopecia. I've been trying to write something for most of the past hour but others keep getting i...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 9:36 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Active/Inactive/Deceased/Merged ?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 1587
Re: Active/Inactive/Deceased/Merged ?
Perhaps if I read my own name in a Times obituary notice my status would change? Perhaps it might inspire you to set up the John Upham Awards? [Yes I am aware of the lack of evidence for the story about Alfred Nobel reading his own obituary after newspapers mistakenly thought he had died when in fa...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: High Class Journalism?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1091
Re: High Class Journalism?
One might have thought Aston Villa would know better, having been on the opposite side of a similar issue in 1999 https://www.theguardian.com/football/1999/dec/19/newsstory.sport which, incidentally spared Gareth Southgate's blushes after he again missed a penalty in the shoot-out. Seriously though,...
- Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:45 pm
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Confusing Openings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2524
Re: Confusing Openings
At least once I arrived at a French via Scandinavian and Blackmar-Diemer: 1e4 d5 2 d4 e6.
- Sun Dec 17, 2023 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is Chess shortening your life?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 1713
Re: Is Chess shortening your life?
Not quite the same, but the stress of chess administration possibly contributed to me being physically sick on one occasion.
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:41 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Speed Demon: The Fascinating Games and Tragic Life of Alexey Vyzhmanavin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 629
Re: Speed Demon: The Fascinating Games and Tragic Life of Alexey Vyzhmanavin
Most of my knowledge of Vyzhmanavin comes from his famous draw offer when two pawns up against Vladimir Kramnik in the 1994 Intel Moscow Grand Prix, mainly because there was a programme broadcast on terrestrial television about it. I also remember Anand in the final promoting a pawn by placing a que...
- Sat Dec 02, 2023 7:21 pm
- Forum: Links
- Topic: London Chess League
- Replies: 33
- Views: 10779
Re: London Chess League
It appears that the league can now be found at the following address: https://londonchess.com/
When I Google search it is the second behind the previous site.
When I Google search it is the second behind the previous site.
- Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:06 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 46th Scarborough Chess Congress
- Replies: 3
- Views: 970
Re: 46th Scarborough Chess Congress
At the risk of sounding facetious, it's because you don't have an ad blocker installed in your browser. Without knowing more about your device/OS/browser, I can't advise further on how to remedy it.Dragoljub Sudar wrote: ↑Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:46 pmWhen I am looking on chess results these annoying full page adverts fill the screen. Why?
- Sun Oct 01, 2023 9:21 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Living in the Past: The Chiltern League
- Replies: 55
- Views: 4662
Re: Living in the Past: The Chiltern League
When I first played in the Chiltern League (as I think I have noted previously, at the other end of the same team as Dan Lambourne for a season or so) the grading limit was 175, but 170 for junior teams. When Buckinghamshire finally left the SCCU Open in 2004, the limit was increased to 180, and cou...
- Sun Aug 27, 2023 4:02 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Membership Query
- Replies: 7
- Views: 896
Re: Membership Query
As of now this link https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-membership-rates-and-joining-details/ includes listing a printed yearbook as a benefit of being a platinum member. I personally wouldn't mind not receiving a printed copy of the yearbook to save a few trees. There is a publicly available link t...
- Fri Aug 25, 2023 4:01 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: August Bank Holiday Congresses
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1121
Re: August Bank Holiday Congresses
I am not an expert in such matters, but it appears to me from the information in this thread that the Berks and Bucks Congress is possibly not fully adhering to the DPA 2018!? The reason being that I am having to add security exceptions in my browser to view the site.
- Sat Jul 22, 2023 8:16 pm
- Forum: Book Reviews
- Topic: Old chess books - any bookstore in London?
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1419
Re: Old chess books - any bookstore in London?
If my memory serves me, Chess and Bridge (either when they were on Euston Road or now they are in Baker Street) certainly used to have a section of second hand books. Wasn't particularly extensive (two or three shelves!?). I haven't visited for a while so can't confirm or deny whether it is still th...
- Sun Jul 02, 2023 10:56 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Test match at Lord's
- Replies: 68
- Views: 3013
Re: Test match at Lords
Possibly mildly amusing that Stuart Broad came in as a result, considering what happened at Trent Bridge in 2013. [Maybe New Zealand wouldn't] do that sort of thing Like when Brendon McCullum ran out Muttiah Muralitharan in Christchurch in 2006? The first post in this thread almost qualifies for "co...