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I'll be renewing as usual too. No doubt, there are many players who are finding lockdown financially difficult, but I hope as many as possible will renew promptly. Equally, many charitable organisations will be in big financial trouble. I am a member of the national trust, Ashmolean Museum, and the ...

I believe so. I believe the entire round has been scrapped.

Nick Burrows wrote:
Lichess is so much better than chess.com.

I completely agree.

My window crashed a couple of times. Fortunately, when I restored the session, it picked up where it left off. Did anyone else have a similar experience?

In case anyone was thinking of going to the Dieppe Congress this year, please note:- Given the currentcontext of this health crisis, and the measures needed to control this pandemicin the interest of all, the management committee had to its great regret, take the decision tocancel the 16th Dieppe In...

Golombek's book "The Game of Chess" was my first chess book. I expect many players of a similar vintage may say the same.

Last time I heard from Captain Tim, there will be 4 Oxford teams.

4NCL Online 24.3.20 - We're hoping to set up a new 4NCL online chess league very soon (the next couple of weeks latest) - named, funnily enough, 4NCL Online. 4NCL Online will be based not only on existing 4NCL teams who are interested in participating, but also any new teams that wish to apply to j...

Andrew Rawnsley in the Guardian said:- Faced with an invisible menace with extremely visible impacts, a clamour for instant and total shutdowns is understandable. But it comes accompanied by the danger that kneejerk responses by frantic governments can end up doing more harm than good. One scientist...

The Government believes we are about a month behind Italy and that the overall death rate is 1%.
And as we speak, our pension funds are declining in value.

Football and Chess: Tactics Strategy Beauty £10.73 Amazon blurb says:- Why are football and chess 'beautiful games'? Do top football coaches read the pitch as a chess player reads the board? What is the connection between Jose Mourinho's defensive cunning and Grandmaster Wilhelm Steinitz's 'principl...

Any notable politicians among the new intake?

Somehow I doubt it.

One our players flew to Heathrow from the North-East so he could play. Is this a first for Division 3?

Ref Oxford 5, we had virtually an entire team drop nout just before the deadline and had very little choice about withdrawing the team. We hope to be back next time.

Of possible interest to this topic is that I received this message on lichess.org:-

"You lost to a cheater 34 minutes ago
Refund: 2 Blitz rating points"

I have no idea who the cheater was, if he was truly a cheater and how they decided that he was a cheater.