4NCL RAPIDPLAY

[Ben Purton]

bit insulting my Sherwin @ the end... i mean i know hes 155 years old but wheres the need

[Leonard Barden]

bit insulting my Sherwin @ the end... i mean i know hes 155 years old but wheres the need

I absolutely disagree. I remember watching the game Hugh Alexander v Cliff Hilton, British championship (classical time limit, not blitz) at York 1959. Alexander, like Sherwin today, had a lost queen ending and, again like Sherwin, put his unprotected queen en prise to a diagonal backward capture by his opponent's queen.

Hilton didn't see it for about 5-10 minutes and only sensed something was up when a large crowd gathered round the board. Then he gasped, took the queen, and both enjoyed the moment.

Afterwards Alexander explained in his Sunday Times column that backward diagonal queen captures were the best percentage play in a hopeless position for a visual block by the opponent. Very good advice!

[Ben Purton]

Then Hilton was a mug , seriously, he just kept chucking them on prix.


It was an open position with like 20 seconds V Tom's 5 minutes.

I mean lets put it this way, the odadas of winning that game were even more than the wannabe GM's actual odds in his bet.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Toms won the induvidual me thinks!

Yeh we did not enter a team..... had better things to do

Thomas Rendle won the individual event, which I though was an impressive result.

Does anyone know what NACCPO stands for?

[Eoin Devane]

Toms won the induvidual me thinks!

Yeh we did not enter a team..... had better things to do

Thomas Rendle won the individual event, which I though was an impressive result.

Does anyone know what NACCPO stands for?

It's the National Alliance of Childhood Cancer Parent Organisations. A very good cause, I think.

It was a really good weekend - well run and good fun all round.

Edited: Thanks to Mr. D'Souza-Eva for pointing out an unfortunate spelling error.