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by Matt Mackenzie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:17 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: FIDE General Assembly
Replies: 11
Views: 1485

Re: FIDE General Assembly

Roger de Coverly wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 11:34 am
IM Jack Rudd wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:45 am
the links to the original concepts don't really mean much to most players.
Were not the pieces in the former Soviet Union and other Communist states also secularised?
Were they - if so, how exactly?
by Matt Mackenzie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:14 pm
Forum: County Championships
Topic: Manchester in the NCCU
Replies: 58
Views: 9863

Re: Manchester in the NCCU

If the match did not begin at the "official" start time, then surely that should no longer count in such calculations.

I would be extremely miffed if such a decision went against my team, put it that way.
by Matt Mackenzie
Wed Mar 27, 2024 3:12 pm
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Keith Escott
Replies: 8
Views: 401

Re: Keith Escott

IIRC issues of CHESS during BHW's final years as editor listed him as a deputy.
by Matt Mackenzie
Tue Mar 26, 2024 4:04 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37327

Re: Britbase Updates

Looks like you have deciphered it, except its 34....Ne8 not Ne1 ;)
by Matt Mackenzie
Sun Mar 24, 2024 4:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Actors and Masters
Replies: 10
Views: 511

Re: Actors and Masters

Wasn't there an actual Soviet film (as opposed to documentary) which featured both Tal and Korchnoi amongst others?
by Matt Mackenzie
Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:08 pm
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Lisa Lane
Replies: 5
Views: 515

Re: Lisa Lane

An immature Fischer claimed he could give knight odds to all women players. That wasn't true when he said it, certainly in the Soviet Union. Fischer to Cathy Forbes in 1992, when asked on another of his female quotes: “A lot of these quotes about me are not correct. Quotes of things I said”. That i...
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:32 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: OGWT
Replies: 26
Views: 829

Re: OGWT

ITV had various "music shows", but none that lasted as long or had the overall impact of OGWT.
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: The UK Parliamentary Chess Club
Replies: 10
Views: 1185

Re: The UK Parliamentary Chess Club

I note that all the actual MPs in that team are Tories, despite there being a few known "chessers" in the Labour ranks (including, of course, one of their most currently prominent figures)
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 6:27 pm
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Lisa Lane
Replies: 5
Views: 515

Re: Lisa Lane

"They're all weak, all women - they lose every single game against a man".

Even at the time that wasn't true, but these days it sounds positively prehistoric.

Nona G of course took up Bobby's "offer", and (strangely enough) that was the last anybody heard of it.
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:07 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: Reykjavik 2024
Replies: 53
Views: 4808

Re: Reykjavik 2024

Colin Patterson wrote:
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:57 pm
A beautiful attack from Matthew to take down Jules Moussard, who sportingly gave him mate on the board. Congrats to him.
Which got me thinking, does anybody - ever - still "announce" mate these days?

There was a time when it was far from unknown even at master level.
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:44 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Media comments on chess
Replies: 5977
Views: 741806

Re: Media comments on chess

Hopefully they won't become commonplace in the lifetimes of most of us, then.
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Mar 21, 2024 2:40 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: OGWT
Replies: 26
Views: 829

Re: OGWT

I watched TOWGT avidly. I recall being mesmerised by the video for Trampled Underfoot by Led Zeppelin in 1975. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKv4goxIR1Q and also by this incredible Frank Zappa video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qr1FchF4opE and a whole lot more. Sadly, not all episodes survived...
by Matt Mackenzie
Wed Mar 20, 2024 10:08 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)
Replies: 10
Views: 618

Re: Capablanca v James E Lewis (manhatton Chess Club1941)

Mona May Karff?

A reasonably well known US female player, if that's who it is.
by Matt Mackenzie
Wed Mar 20, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Francis Joseph Lee
Replies: 6
Views: 305

Re: Francis Joseph Lee

Thank you very much indeed for this.

A player I have often seen mentioned in reports of major chess events of that time, but still never knew that much about.

Well, one does know a bit more now :)
by Matt Mackenzie
Mon Mar 18, 2024 3:26 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Bletchley Park female codebreakers
Replies: 11
Views: 1447

Re: Bletchley Park female codebreakers

John Upham wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:38 pm
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:33 pm
John Upham wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2024 1:22 pm
Don't tell Gary Kenworthy of this thread whatever you do!
Dare one ask why?
I fear that we will all find out soon enough.
I don't think he has an account here any more, so perhaps not.