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- Mon May 04, 2020 1:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Has anyone figured out how to make a living?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3579
Re: Has anyone figured out how to make a living?
Be in the top 100 in the world. This is how it works with most global or major sports. Excepting, say, football, golf, tennis, basketball, ice hockey, baseball, either code of rugby, cycling.... I had meant to say Individual sports, as team sports function in a completely different way to individua...
- Sun May 03, 2020 11:04 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Has anyone figured out how to make a living?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 3579
Re: Has anyone figured out how to make a living?
Be in the top 100 in the world. This is how it works with most global or major sports.
- Sat Nov 24, 2018 1:32 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: English victories against reigning World Champions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 17516
Re: English victories against World Champions
I remember Adams bearing Carlsen at the Olympiad where Carlsen played some ...Nh5 rubbish. Was that when Carlsen was WCh?
- Thu Nov 15, 2018 10:54 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: 300 ECF Grade
- Replies: 9
- Views: 4392
300 ECF Grade
I was looking at the top players list on the ECF grading list and noticed that Ian Nepomniatchi has an ECF grade of 299.
Has anybody ever surpassed 300 ECF grade?
Has anybody ever surpassed 300 ECF grade?
- Mon Oct 01, 2018 1:04 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Batumi Olympiad
- Replies: 983
- Views: 68520
Re: Batumi Olympiad
Also some controversy from the end of that epic Ukraine v China match yesterday. Help me out here, what's "slow-rolling"? Slow-rolling is a term in poker where you know you have the best hand (often the best possible hand) but you wait for your opponent to show their hand first. A variation is that...
- Sun May 06, 2018 9:08 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: Division One 2017-18
- Replies: 28
- Views: 6860
Re: Division One 2017-18
Longest game in 4NCL history I’m guessing?
- Sun Nov 05, 2017 12:27 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favourite Rating Upsets Ever: Wins or Draws.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2581
Re: Favourite Rating Upsets Ever: Wins or Draws.
We had a match in the Yorkshire league last season, where three of our players had large upset wins. Board 2, our player graded 140 beat a 182 Board 3, our player graded 95 (aged 85) won vs a player graded 178 Board 5, our player graded 82 beat a 160. A quite remarkable set of results for one match!...
- Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:43 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Blackpool 2017
- Replies: 22
- Views: 4013
Re: Blackpool 2017
Mark Crowther had them on TWICLeonard Barden wrote:Where are the rounds 1-4 games to be found? Only round 5 now seems to be online.
- Sun Mar 12, 2017 9:41 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Simon Deighton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1896
- Mon Mar 06, 2017 9:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Does Michael Adams Have an Immortal Game?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 3113
Re: Does Michael Adams Have an Immortal Game?
iirc Adams had an amazing game on the Black side of a Berlin, I think it was against Caruana?
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: Player needed for this weekend at Telford
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1292
Re: Player needed for this weekend at Telford
Player no longer required.
- Fri Mar 03, 2017 7:53 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Simon Deighton
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1896
Simon Deighton
From the Yorkshire website: Friends and team-mates are saddened to report the untimely death of Simon Deighton, a fine man whose approach to life inspired respect and admiration amongst those who were fortunate to meet or play alongside and opposite him. Our thoughts are with his family at this most...
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 10:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Tournament rounds
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2711
Re: Tournament rounds
But the basic proposition already is quite firmly comic :) Maybe you mean something different to what you actually wrote or something. It actually happened. They played 1 round, and the arbiter repaired it, exempting the players whose opponents didn't change in the two pairing list from playing. Why?
- Thu Mar 02, 2017 6:14 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: Player needed for this weekend at Telford
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1292
Player needed for this weekend at Telford
Due to a late withdrawals, Bradford DCA Knights are one player short for this weekend's Div 2 games at the Park Inn, Telford
If anybody fancies playing on either Saturday, Sunday or both, please PM me.
If anybody fancies playing on either Saturday, Sunday or both, please PM me.
- Fri Feb 24, 2017 7:54 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 2017 FIDE Women's World Championship (Tehran)
- Replies: 178
- Views: 17712
Re: 2017 FIDE Women's World Championship (Tehran)
I don't know if anyone else has made this point because I am blind drunk, but I don't really think the winner of the FIDE Women's World championship deserves the Fide Grandmaster Title. She really won't have done enough in my eyes. So winning the most prestigious tournament in the women's game whic...