English Chess Forum

Mark Hannon wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 08, 2025 9:38 am

Doesn’t 16. d4 win instead of 16 b6?

Yeah, reckon so.

I was also confused by the position after Kf3 not being a draw. Must not have been defended properly, could happen in a rush? Thalia says draws were allowed.

Hi Leonard. The Standard are taking the chess every day again and they've put it back on the main puzzle page - it had been booted to the letters page for a while. The online version is going, but they were struggling with it and kept making a mess of it anyway. Means people outside London are out o...

Found your 'sceptical' post via google so this is me posting to verify that I exist and did indeed represent England juniors a few times. Though at least one was 'The rest of England vs London', to be fair.