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- Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:21 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3445
Re: Counties and clubs
Do we actually have any counties that don't have a league of their own? There is no reason to be fixated on antiquated administrative areas that have been gerrymandered or "adjusted" down the years. Warwickshire (without its own league) is perhaps the prime example of a made-up misshapen region. Wh...
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 8:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4098
Re: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
Bishop-answering people will be prejudiced according to colour, confining themselves to half the board.
On the other hand, Knight-answering people will have thought about the question too much, again prejudicing the results.
On the other hand, Knight-answering people will have thought about the question too much, again prejudicing the results.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Mating Pattern
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1909
- Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:58 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Christmas Eve incident in a rock bar
- Replies: 32
- Views: 3982
Re: Christmas Eve incident in a rock bar
You're thinking of well-dressed chess players.Paul McKeown wrote: ↑Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:10 pmIntelligent looking chess players?
That would be a rarity...
- Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:42 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Time control Ostend 1905?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 631
Re: Time control Ostend 1905?
Thank you ever so!
- Sun Sep 10, 2023 11:42 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Time control Ostend 1905?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 631
Re: Time control Ostend 1905?
Thanks Ian and Geoff,
That was indeed the Tarrasch-Blackburne game I was writing about.
I was annotating it for an ebook on Bird's Defence.
I've since moved on to other games.
That was indeed the Tarrasch-Blackburne game I was writing about.
I was annotating it for an ebook on Bird's Defence.
I've since moved on to other games.
- Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:58 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Time control Ostend 1905?
- Replies: 5
- Views: 631
Time control Ostend 1905?
What was the time control of the Ostend 1905 main tournament?
I thought that in that era it would've been at 30 moves or possibly 36, but one game I'm looking at (Tarrasch-Blackburne) suggests that the players were struggling/repeating as they approached their 40th moves.
I thought that in that era it would've been at 30 moves or possibly 36, but one game I'm looking at (Tarrasch-Blackburne) suggests that the players were struggling/repeating as they approached their 40th moves.
- Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:40 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Annoying time wasting
- Replies: 73
- Views: 6016
Re: Annoying time wasting
... on chess forums?Ian Jamieson wrote: ↑Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:48 pmOr you have to be mad to spend more than a certain amount of time...
- Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:57 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Membership Reform
- Replies: 150
- Views: 13699
Re: ECF Membership Reform
https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Membership-Options-Membership-Survey.pdf Reading through that document... "The majority Board view was that [...] given the range of membership benefits that the ECF now provides (see above), £33 represents very good value for membership an...
- Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:51 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: IBSA World Games (incl. chess) at Birmingham University
- Replies: 0
- Views: 457
IBSA World Games (incl. chess) at Birmingham University
This month the International Blind Sports Federation is holding their World Games event at Birmingham University (mostly) which besides football and cricket etc. includes chess. University of Birmingham Cafe Aroma, Staff House Arrival on Thursday 17th August. Training on Friday 18th and Saturday 19t...
- Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:37 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Can I say ....
- Replies: 2
- Views: 491
Re: Can I say ....
Whoe'er's with mind confined, from conflict's strife,
Sees the world as narrow, in their view of life.
Sees the world as narrow, in their view of life.
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:47 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: IM Jan Przewoznik
- Replies: 1
- Views: 525
Re: IM Jan Przewoznik
Jan was a man of enormous enthusiasm and positivity. His studies in psychology (he had a PhD on a chess topic) must have taught him the importance of confidence and energy for success and well-being, whether in his chess-playing, his business consultancies, his book publishing, or even his clarinet ...
- Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:57 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Government funding for chess
- Replies: 46
- Views: 3959
Re: Government funding for chess
Malcolm Pein was on Radio 5 at 07:50.
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:33 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Can Armageddon games be rated?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 990
Re: Can Armageddon games be rated?
My idea for a tie-break is to reverse the colours for a single play-off game with Black the tourney winner if the game is drawn. (Time control equal and the same as the rest of the tourney.) If drawn, it will be submitted to the ECF as a draw though. I would think you should submit the result as pl...
- Wed Aug 02, 2023 12:50 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Can Armageddon games be rated?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 990
Can Armageddon games be rated?
I am running my Club's small, standardplay Swiss tourney. The planned five rounds have been completed and the results already submitted to the ECF (after each round). Two players have finished ahead of the rest on 3½ points each. They had already played each other in a drawn game. My idea for a tie-...