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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 3:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 1369
Re: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
If you were playing online and offered a draw you would get the win if your opponent were too slow to accept before the clock expired, and it is probably the same over the board, but in a league game I would 100% say you did the right thing to leave it as a draw when it had been offered and accepted...
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 12:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 527
Re: Actors and Masters
Caught me by surprise to see a certain Michael Adams in it. He wasn't the most convincing baddie I have ever seen, and perhaps that's true over the board too! On the plus side I don't think it hurt his credibility too badly, none of the baddies in commando are very convincingly threatening against ...
- Tue Mar 19, 2024 6:48 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL Time control
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1260
Re: 4NCL Time control
It feels like 4ncl (and competitive chess in general) is getting pushed further back towards the old days when only the most rich and elite players can really afford to compete - Meals are now awkward and expensive then ever (players from my club have reported all cut off times for ordering before 8...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:57 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 61
- Views: 5835
Re: Clock Bangers
It woke be quite cool to have a digital flag in the new clocks - loads of kids online talk about flagging their opponent and probably think it is just some sort of chess slang without actually knowing the truth of the story. I really miss the good old days of flagfall, chess has been completely ruin...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 8:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Changes to FIDE ratings.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 423
Re: Changes to FIDE ratings.
Long and short of it is that the rating system has been broken for years at lower levels, lockdown massively inflated the problem and once it finally reached the levels of the protected bubble of super GMs and their ratings started to go down FIDE had no choice but to take their head out of the sand...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 11:49 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 5070
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Just out of interest, is there some sort of story of significance behind this particular match- a random draw in a county game from 30 years ago doesn't seem like one that most people would likely have kept in mind without a good reason?
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
There's a few gambits black can go for in the ruy lopez but i think the marshall is perhaps the standout - really tough to defend for white, in fact I don't think many top GMs even allow the position to happen anymore.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 1:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
There's even a crazy, but highly unsound, Halloween gambit if you really like being material down and to be able to force the position regularly
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Nxe5 Nxe5 4.d4
1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3. Nxe5 Nxe5 4.d4
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 4:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
Queens gambit is not really a gambit, per say, pretty sure white can regain the pawn by force if he does want it back unless there is some sort of new deep engine analysis for black to dig deep and hold on but I'd be very surprised if any modern chess computer could stand to give away so much initia...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 3:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
I feel like gambit players are cowards, putting themselves in a position where they can't really lose any respect - if they win they are hailed as a dashing and brave attacker and if they lose they are patted on the back and told what a great attempt it was. Never take a gambit unless the refusal le...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 7:38 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4227
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Is that his famous "king walk" game?
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 3:40 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4227
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
I like the idea of this but 90 games to go over (plus whatever great games were not on that list, Ive seen some really nice ones in the 4ncl and British) feels like a bit of a big project that I couldn't give an objective opinion in any sort of sensible timeframe. What about breaking up the list int...
- Thu Feb 22, 2024 4:55 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 61
- Views: 5835
Clock Bangers
I'm sure we all know that one (or even multiple) player who likes to treat chess clocks like punching bags at the gym, often with no real time pressure forcing their hand. I wondered though, would a captain or tournament organiser be right to eject them from the game (after a polite warning, of cour...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Graded Band Tournaments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1174
Re: Graded Band Tournaments
You are right that ratings don't mean anything in the wider context of life but for the 99% of players who never actually make any money from chess their rating is the only thing they ever have to show for their toils so you can kind of see why that arbitrary figure can be so highly prized and peopl...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 1:06 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Graded Band Tournaments
- Replies: 12
- Views: 1174
Re: Graded Band Tournaments
I think this is a fantastic idea, right now the grading limit of a 2000 minimum might be just too high because somewhere like 90% of the players in the country are sub 2000 these days. after the rating fix comes and there are a few more points back in the pool i could see it being really popular and...