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Nice quiz. Like others, I had to guess on the Peter Cloudsdale picture, but managed to get 100%.

Does anyone know of any strong IM/GM coaches based anywhere near Durham (apart from Jonathan Hawkins, who doesn't want to take on any more coaching at the moment)? Thanks, Will I would have said try Hawkins again , as looking at his remarkable rating history on the rating database he is the player ...

Ben and Mick - I've tried online coaching, but only with text chat, and think I'd get significantly more out of face-to-face coaching. It's true that Skype might be nearly as good though.

Does anyone know of any strong IM/GM coaches based anywhere near Durham (apart from Jonathan Hawkins, who doesn't want to take on any more coaching at the moment)?

Thanks,

Will

Thanks for the encouragement, David. I'll try. I sort of hope I do Weller-nough in the next couple of rounds to have a crack at JLW, but perhaps that's an unwise hope.

time to kick-start this one methinks..... Our hero is performing rather well at Sheffield yes? He has four from six. Qualification score for the next British Championship is 7.5/11. So 3.5/5 on the second week is the target. Thanks for telling me that. I didn't realise you could qualify for the mai...

I'm semi-retired until the end of May for uni exams. After that the next 3-4 months will be largely dedicated to chess.

More to the point, actually, where is Will - we have'nt seen him around here for ages. I hope he is not letting his 'other' activities get in the way of responding to his fans - that is no way to go about becoming a grandmaster - he needs to know that with great power comes great responsibility. He...

Alex Holowczak wrote:Will you be playing for Durham at the BUCA event for Durham in Oxford?

Yes, all being well.

I wasn't asked to play last weekend, but I will be playing at the next one in February.

I've taken a quick break from training to branch into FIDE politics: http://roadtograndmaster.com/?p=236
Merry almost-Christmas!

From the annotated games on the website, I would say he's got to improve his knowledge and feel of some basic chess patterns. You shouldn't really need to spend half your available time just setting up a normal looking Bh6,g4, h4 punt against the Dragon. It was an interesting idea against an Accele...

Hi Will. Tried to stick on £2.00 with my WH account but no success am going along to my local WH to see if I can do it over the counter. I doubt you'll be able to over the counter. The way I did it was to e-mail Joe Crilly (jcrillyATwilliamhillDOTcoDOTuk). Quite a task young man, you are going to ...

Gavin Strachan wrote:I have just seen some of his games. All I will say is that after a hard long search I found a win v a 118 and a draw v Adams in a simul.

It can't have been a very 'hard long search', as a recent win against a 162 is posted on my site.