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Nigel Short just got a mention on the cricket commentary on Talk Sport 2. Apparently he met the commentator David LLoyd at an Indian restaurant yesterday and gave the impression of being cricket mad.

A board with strong experience in the commercial and business sectors would allow (if an option) more time to encourage a wide and diverse number of bidders. I don't know about anyone else on the board, but speaking as a former work colleague (and team mate!) of Mike Truran, I can assure you that h...

I wonder if there would be less abuse if people had to register with their real names, like we do on this forum.

I believe the Oxford defaults on Saturday were down to a problem with their train.

I see that the triangular match begun in Round 2 wil be completed in Round 3.

I seem to recall that Miles beat Karpov! The famous 1. ... a6 game.

I have just remembered the time I played a junior who kept going to the toilet when it was his move. On querying this with the arbiter and opposing team captain, I was told that he was very nervous. But he stopped doing it.

Nick,
I think the largest cheque book also wins in the 4NCL!

Generally, I have had nothing but good behaviour from juniors. The only exception is a tournament last year where I had the repeated draw offers when my opponent was lost, and the thing which annoys me most - eating loudly at the board. So I asked my opponent to go and do it elsewhere, which he did....

The headline for the Letter from the Political Editor on page 3 of today's i newspaper is:- May is backed into a corner in this game of 3D Brexit chess. And in the article itself:- She is playing the most complex game of three-dimensional chess as she conducts parallel negotiations with Brussles, he...

According to stockfish, McShane is struggling. So it looks like a 1-3 defeat.

On the subject of move counters, in a 4NCL match last season, the opposing team's player on the next board pressed the clock on my board my mistake, thereby giving me 30 exra seconds. He did this again a short while later, and apologised. I just replied that it was no problem and thanked him for the...

In fact, I would have got an extra 30 minutes, had I reached move 40. It's interesting that the extra time was added as soon as you reach move 40, unlike English tournaments.

NickFaulks wrote: ↑ Sun Aug 05, 2018 6:53 am Tim Harding wrote: ↑ Sat Aug 04, 2018 11:40 pm FM Stephen Jessel just failed to punch his clock in time after making move 40 on the board. I always find that a bit strange when there is a 30 second increment. This happened to me at a tournament in France...

Nick,
why not take up walking football? It's excellent exercise! I play twice a week and I've survived so far.