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by Richard Thursby
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.
by Richard Thursby
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 £...
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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,...
by Richard Thursby
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.
by Richard Thursby
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.
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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.
by Richard Thursby
Sun Oct 29, 2023 8:06 pm
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: 46th Scarborough Chess Congress
Replies: 3
Views: 970

Re: 46th Scarborough Chess Congress

Dragoljub Sudar wrote:
Sat Oct 28, 2023 10:46 pm
When I am looking on chess results these annoying full page adverts fill the screen. Why?
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.
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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.
by Richard Thursby
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...
by Richard Thursby
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...