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Michael Adams? lost to Kazimdzhanov (when Nigel and Garry broke away to have an unofficial match...) You are correct that it was Michael Adams. It was in Libya in 2004. But it wasn't really a World Championship match. It was the Final of one of Kirsan Ilyumzhinov's World Championship Knockout Tourn...

Sad news. It's all too easy to forget how much the administration of English chess depends on people like Zoë.

RIP

(Just for accuracy's sake, it's Antón. Guijarro is his second surname or apellido .) My fellow club member Luis Ortiz Sanchez (305122F) has been resident in London for a decade or so and is usually known as Luiz Sanchez here. When I asked him why, he said that he had found it so difficult to get Br...

Isn't the problem with voting rights that the number of votes is based on the games played under the auspices of an organisation between two cut off dates? For many organisations, particularly Congresses, that's going to be nil unless prior years are rolled forward. You would then get "one organisa...

Do you ever hear people say 'my bad' instead of 'my mistake'? I hear it a lot among non-native speakers but can't tell if this is just a trend or has been said for some time now. A google search led me to the following: "'My bad' came into widespread popular use in the mid to late-1990s in the USA ...

Your statement below is, though, open to misinterpretation in the way that Neil understood as it was a response to a comment about arbiters. I thought the same as Neil on first reading but then changed my mind and decided you probably meant 25 players in total suspected of cheating, not 1 out of 25...

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Tue Jan 19, 2021 4:53 pm

David Sedgwick has rightly noted that of the 174 ECF Arbiters only 25 competed in the 4NCL On-Line. I've no reason to doubt his figures...

I have reason to doubt them. I made no such statement.

I have made no attempt to ascertain how many ECF Arbiters competed.

iSLINGTON OPEN 21-23 November 1969 1 Hans Ree 5.5/6 2-7 LUBOSH KAVALEK, David Levy, Leonard Barden, Max Fuller, George Botterill, Peter Lee 5/6. The game Kavalek v Barden took place in round 4 or 5. We had both dropped half a point, so Lubosh needed a win to stay in contention for first. I was Blac...

The re-scheduled Tokyo Olympics which was to run late July, into August is now looking fairly doubtful; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-55722542 Is any summer British Championship looking more likely to be an online event again? Given government assurances (I know) that nearly everybody will ha...

40. ... Qg7 41. Qd6+ Kf7 42. Qe7# is the equally pretty alternative line.

On the commentary, it took Leko a little time to spot these variations, which indicates that the play was by no means as straightforward as Carlsen made it look.

Matthew Turner wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 16, 2021 4:55 pm

Carlsen - Firouzja

OMG

If that is an out of form Carlsen ...

Appalling coverage to start us off with Yes, it is very unfortunate. The tournament website is down and both Chess24 and ChessBomb, who must be using the same source, have moves from only three of the seven games. My guess is that the number of would be hits on the website is substantially greater ...

Handful of arbiters played and 1 under suspicion. Ok not to play russian roulette. But ought to be banned from arbiting until cleared. There are 25 people in that position. Nothing has been proved against any of them and none of them can be named. However, you want to single one of them out for sha...

I can't challenge that. However, I did once spend 1hour 35 minutes on a game at Guernsey, The time limit then was 50 moves in 2½ hours.

The curious feature was that, even after my marathon think, I still had more time left than my opponent.

Chris Rice wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 14, 2021 11:00 pm

Very interesting...an ECF Arbiter under the microscope. Not a good look for the ECF.

If I have counted correctly, there are currently 174 ECF Arbiters. Nothing has been proved against any of them, but one of them is under suspicion.

I do not accept that that reflects badly on the ECF.