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Another issue is that we know what happens with flu - come March/April the number of cases falls dramatically. We don't know have the same understanding of Coronavirus.

Ben Youngs (England's scrum half) in todays Daily Mail:

"The role of a 9 has changed so much", he said. "It's just like a game of chess now...…."

I couldn't possibly comment.

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Are non-chess jokes allowed? If so, one of my favourites from Tim Vine:

I thought my wife was joking when she said she was going to leave me because of my obsession with The Monkees. And then I saw her face.

There's also the point that introverts can act in an extrovert way when needed, at least sometimes (and indeed vice versa). I remember being on a course at work a few years back where the lecturer, who was talking about the subject, said that 'the real him' was the person we had just encountered in ...

Kasparov had a strong history prior to his first grading though. Botvinnik for one, Leonard Barden for another were raving about him from a young age eg didn't Botvinnik say something like the future of chess was in his hands? And Leonard predicted he would be world champion following Kasparovs perf...

I see that Carlsen gets 7 games as White, 6 as Black. Giri the other way round. Is this a significant advantage - especially given the lack of Black wins to date? I assume it isn't or they would choose to avoid it.

This is worth a new thread - how about Moore - Payne?

Edit: Hmm - must have picked up the wrong entrants file, can't see them in the pairings for today.

Maybe Merriman and Keetman will get drawn against each other in the next round?

Kasparov. He dominated his peers (including Karpov) for a longer time than either Fischer or Carlsen.

True, although chessbomb shows engine analysis as well - just watched the end of Danny Gormally's game, full of tactics that I couldn't have followed without the analysis.

Panic over - now working!

Just seen your post Alex. Thanks.

I was hoping to watch the games live online but it doesn't seem to be working on the Caplin Hastings site. Does anybody have a link that works? Thanks.