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- Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:20 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37368
Re: Britbase Updates
The other part-game between Woollard and Kelly provided some chess interest. After 10 Qe2, in this position... 6q1/r7/2nR1B1p/1k1pP3/2pPp3/2P1P3/4QK1P/8 b - - 0 10 ... Black missed a chance to turn the tables. It's far from obvious. That is really nice. You wonder how they found combinations like t...
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:10 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Keith Escott
- Replies: 8
- Views: 433
Re: Keith Escott
Are there any details of his work as "an editor of BCM"?
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:07 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Alan Beresford
- Replies: 9
- Views: 506
Re: Alan Beresford
Good to put some faces to names, thanks Mick!
- Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 709
Re: Young Authors
You would have thought the interlinking of databases and the way in which searches can be done now, that it might be trivial to extract a list of teenaged authors of chess books. Be aware that some will have been written while a teenager and published aged 20 (could also define the limit as under 18...
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:30 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37368
Re: Britbase Updates
There's a mention of STK Wilkinson in the junior event - I assume he is no longer with us? To prompt further interest in Kevin's enquiry (there are many references to Wilkinson over his playing career, far more than the two below): (i) An S.T.K. Wilkinson is shown (graded 144) playing for Wimbledon...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:36 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1843
Re: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
Thank you Jonathan. I should apologise, as I was actually thinking of the performance of a Kingston team in winning the 1st Division of the 4NCL (the online one), though the OTB progression gets mentioned as well: https://kingstonchess.com/club-history-2/ John Foley entered a Kingston ChessPlus team...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:32 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Britbase Updates
- Replies: 269
- Views: 37368
Re: Britbase Updates
Any chance you met or know who "Capt. O. Range" was? (Mentioning it in case you or John missed the additions to that thread.)
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 5:29 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 848
Re: OGWT
I am not sure asking on a chess forum will get you a credible answer. There are actually archives and sources out there that may help. The University of Reading is a good place to start for this sort of thing. The BBC Television Audience Research Reports, 1957-1979: recorded opinions and invisible e...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:34 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4812
Re: Reykjavik 2024
Fair points, Kevin. That is the same ending Dan Fernandez managed to lose, though the slip came when it had simplified to KRP vs KR. I think my perspective of the results by Peter Large and Dan Bisby (and others) are slightly coloured by the nature of their losses. Both results are overall actually ...
- Thu Mar 21, 2024 12:21 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 848
Re: OGWT
The shorter-lived precursors (of which I knew nothing, just like this one) included the fascinating 'Colour Me Pop':
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Me_Pop
Apparently it was designed to "celebrate the new introduction of colour to British television".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colour_Me_Pop
Apparently it was designed to "celebrate the new introduction of colour to British television".
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:31 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1843
Re: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
Audible Checks? Are there no checks(!) on team names? On other matters, can I ask your views on the progress of the CSC/Kingston team? I have been following with interest and wondered if their emergence has been a bit unexpected or a natural progression?
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:26 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124348
Re: Chess history trivia
A 50/50 chance and I blew it! (The fact I have that publication makes it a bit ...)
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:16 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 53
- Views: 4812
Re: Reykjavik 2024
He has performed well. Hopefully he can finish with a draw or win. Is it just me, or have the other results from ENG players been underwhelming? (A good performance from the Welsh player I have highlighted a few times, but that seems to be about it). Well, Bodhana missing a mate in two against an IM...
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)
- Replies: 10
- Views: 637
Re: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mona_May_KarffMatt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:08 pmMona May Karff?
A reasonably well known US female player, if that's who it is.
Goodness. That will teach me to post without checking first! Very well known (certainly to her contemporaries).
- Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:06 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124348
Re: Chess history trivia
Vodka distillers, followed by sex workers.
No, seriously, generic groups like factory workers or agricultural workers seem the only ones large enough. I am going to go for "factory workers".
No, seriously, generic groups like factory workers or agricultural workers seem the only ones large enough. I am going to go for "factory workers".