English Chess Forum

Fun fact about the queen's gambit I discovered recently - heath ledger was a very keen chess player and after playing the joker in the dark Knight was in negotiations to direct his first movie which was going to be an adaptation of the queen's gambit, so if not for his unfortunate demise we would ha...

Now I know you only need the three and a rating to get norm requiring titles but I was thinking that after becoming a GM it is still quite feasible to get a performance that would qualify for a norm were they still seeking one and whether anyone ever kept track of such a thing (i presume in the 2700...

Actually I did think of another potential way to win really unfairly on time with dgt clocks - if an opponent is desperately rushing to make a time control play a sequence of captures fast but "forget" to press your own clock during the moves so the move counter is off and they end up flagging while...

I recall seeing players in the past hide their scoresheet under the table while their opponent was in desperate time trouble and not notating so they weren't able to know when they reached time control and carried on blitzing past it until they lost and then "catching up the moves" to 39

Someone with a 2000 rating who maintains it by bogging down higher rated players for draws on board 1 could be said to be in less good form then the 1800 board 2 who is winning game after game with dashing attacks but only progressing slowly cause a lot of the opponents are the same or lower rated a...

True enjoyment of chess is an extremely fleeting thing, since it literally only comes from winning something of significance you'll almost never be in a position where that's a regular occurrence - as a beginner games are just a random blunder fest, at mid level you'll often have streaks of reality ...

This entire post looks like it was written by Google AI

In the few cases I've seen of home schooled chess players they tend to be serious enough about their game that they or their parents are the ones reaching out to master level coaches for improvement rather then the other way around, but my sample size is only a handful - not sure how it would be pos...

[ I'm sure I posted on this before, Joey. Prize funds will increase when entrants are willing to pay more to enter tournaments. Since people don't want to pay more, and (with my limited economic knowledge) costs are not going to go down, nothing is going to change. Rather than stating the problem, ...

The British always seems reasonably well funded for a national competition, it's the weekenders with £100-200 prizes that are really stuck in the past especially now the costs of an average player more or less guarantees a financial loss whether you win a prize or not.

It's like that famous quote from the godfather "just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in!"

What is interesting about this is the number of people who have pointed out that erdogmus family have spend vast amounts of money getting him the opportunities to play big tournaments and matches and that chess is almost becoming a 'pay to win' game where barriers to forward progress are locked behi...

Brandon is another of that mid 20s generation who was pretty overdue a GM title, good to see he's finally made it (and vindicating the fact I lost to him when he was 13.. at least there was no chance I could have ever beaten a grand master)

Nice to see the small channels getting promoted, I find it frustrating when quality content like this gets buried by the silliness of the big creators (or worse still the proliferation of auto generated AI slop that is threatening to choke YouTube to death)

Did anybody here ever meet or even get to play against timman? I remember his name being one of great reverence even in the late 90s when I first started playing so presume he must have had links to UK chess