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by MSoszynski
Wed Mar 27, 2024 6:29 pm
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Keith Escott
Replies: 8
Views: 401

Re: Keith Escott

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:10 pm
Are there any details of his work as "an editor of BCM"?
I apologise for my confusion. The obituary has now been amended to "an editor for Chess magazine".
by MSoszynski
Tue Mar 12, 2024 10:21 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Counties and clubs
Replies: 55
Views: 5136

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...
by MSoszynski
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: 4728

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.
by MSoszynski
Sun Feb 04, 2024 1:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: New Mating Pattern
Replies: 14
Views: 2067

Re: New Mating Pattern



by MSoszynski
Tue Dec 26, 2023 8:58 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Christmas Eve incident in a rock bar
Replies: 32
Views: 4158

Re: Christmas Eve incident in a rock bar

Paul McKeown wrote:
Mon Dec 25, 2023 7:10 pm
Intelligent looking chess players?

That would be a rarity...
You're thinking of well-dressed chess players.
by MSoszynski
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!
by MSoszynski
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.
by MSoszynski
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.
by MSoszynski
Wed Aug 30, 2023 7:40 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Annoying time wasting
Replies: 73
Views: 6481

Re: Annoying time wasting

Ian Jamieson wrote:
Tue Aug 29, 2023 6:48 pm
Or you have to be mad to spend more than a certain amount of time...
... on chess forums?
by MSoszynski
Thu Aug 24, 2023 11:57 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: ECF Membership Reform
Replies: 150
Views: 16412

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...
by MSoszynski
Fri Aug 18, 2023 5:51 pm
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: IBSA World Games (incl. chess) at Birmingham University
Replies: 0
Views: 459

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...
by MSoszynski
Tue Aug 08, 2023 6:37 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: Can I say ....
Replies: 2
Views: 492

Re: Can I say ....

Whoe'er's with mind confined, from conflict's strife,
Sees the world as narrow, in their view of life.
by MSoszynski
Thu Aug 03, 2023 8:47 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: IM Jan Przewoznik
Replies: 1
Views: 528

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 ...
by MSoszynski
Thu Aug 03, 2023 7:57 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Government funding for chess
Replies: 46
Views: 4416

Re: Government funding for chess

Malcolm Pein was on Radio 5 at 07:50.
by MSoszynski
Wed Aug 02, 2023 6:33 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: Can Armageddon games be rated?
Replies: 16
Views: 1009

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...