Were they - if so, how exactly?Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:34 amWere not the pieces in the former Soviet Union and other Communist states also secularised?IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:45 amthe links to the original concepts don't really mean much to most players.
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- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:17 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: FIDE General Assembly
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1557
Re: FIDE General Assembly
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: County Championships
- Topic: Manchester in the NCCU
- Replies: 58
- Views: 9918
Re: Manchester in the NCCU
If the match did not begin at the "official" start time, then surely that should no longer count in such calculations.
I would be extremely miffed if such a decision went against my team, put it that way.
I would be extremely miffed if such a decision went against my team, put it that way.
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:12 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Keith Escott
- Replies: 8
- Views: 456
Re: Keith Escott
IIRC issues of CHESS during BHW's final years as editor listed him as a deputy.
- Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:04 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37418
Re: Britbase Updates
Looks like you have deciphered it, except its 34....Ne8 not Ne1
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:29 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 527
Re: Actors and Masters
Wasn't there an actual Soviet film (as opposed to documentary) which featured both Tal and Korchnoi amongst others?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:08 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Lisa Lane
- Replies: 5
- Views: 517
Re: Lisa Lane
An immature Fischer claimed he could give knight odds to all women players. That wasn't true when he said it, certainly in the Soviet Union. Fischer to Cathy Forbes in 1992, when asked on another of his female quotes: “A lot of these quotes about me are not correct. Quotes of things I said”. That i...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:32 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 869
Re: OGWT
ITV had various "music shows", but none that lasted as long or had the overall impact of OGWT.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The UK Parliamentary Chess Club
- Replies: 10
- Views: 1186
Re: The UK Parliamentary Chess Club
I note that all the actual MPs in that team are Tories, despite there being a few known "chessers" in the Labour ranks (including, of course, one of their most currently prominent figures)
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Lisa Lane
- Replies: 5
- Views: 517
Re: Lisa Lane
"They're all weak, all women - they lose every single game against a man".
Even at the time that wasn't true, but these days it sounds positively prehistoric.
Nona G of course took up Bobby's "offer", and (strangely enough) that was the last anybody heard of it.
Even at the time that wasn't true, but these days it sounds positively prehistoric.
Nona G of course took up Bobby's "offer", and (strangely enough) that was the last anybody heard of it.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:07 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4903
Re: Reykjavik 2024
Which got me thinking, does anybody - ever - still "announce" mate these days?Colin Patterson wrote: ↑Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:57 pmA beautiful attack from Matthew to take down Jules Moussard, who sportingly gave him mate on the board. Congrats to him.
There was a time when it was far from unknown even at master level.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742266
Re: Media comments on chess
Hopefully they won't become commonplace in the lifetimes of most of us, then.
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:40 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 869
Re: OGWT
I watched TOWGT avidly. I recall being mesmerised by the video for Trampled Underfoot by Led Zeppelin in 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv4goxIR1Q and also by this incredible Frank Zappa video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1FchF4opE and a whole lot more. Sadly, not all episodes survived...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 662
Re: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)
Mona May Karff?
A reasonably well known US female player, if that's who it is.
A reasonably well known US female player, if that's who it is.
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Francis Joseph Lee
- Replies: 6
- Views: 305
Re: Francis Joseph Lee
Thank you very much indeed for this.
A player I have often seen mentioned in reports of major chess events of that time, but still never knew that much about.
Well, one does know a bit more now
A player I have often seen mentioned in reports of major chess events of that time, but still never knew that much about.
Well, one does know a bit more now
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:26 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1476
Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
I don't think he has an account here any more, so perhaps not.John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:38 pmI fear that we will all find out soon enough.Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:33 pmDare one ask why?John Upham wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:22 pmDon't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!