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"I spent what seemed forever defending with rook and bishop against a rampant queen - with pawns on both sides - to no avail. Annoying as I was in contention for some prize money!"

I sympathise as I spent several sessions defending Q vs Q+P at Guernsey, before finally having to resign on move 133.

"How many "dispatches" of that type actually occurred in the Cold War era? Georgi Markov yes, but after that I'm struggling a bit." No idea - I'm suggesting that the threat was credible, as people who are nuisances to various countries have been known to suffer misfortune. I'm not saying he was in d...

"Well as far as I'm aware there's an absolute absence of any evidence for any such thing involving Korchnoi, and that kind of dominates my thinking on the matter."

Fair enough - but if I knew where the Skripals were, I'd ask their opinion.

Just listened to it. Garry isn't even a proper Senior yet.

I hope you won that 11 hour game!

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Ah, I'd forgotten that. I don't think the idea of Korchnoi being a target if he'd won is totally ridiculous. Those Kremlin boys don't mess about if they're unhappy.

"Checkmate - Series 1" is another entertainment on Amazon Prime. All-play-all tournament on Gozo (near Malta), 5 men, 5 women. The first 5 episodes give brief introductions to the moves of the pieces, interviews with the players, and rounds 1-5 of the tournament (one per episode), concentrating on o...

"Users of Amazon Prime might find a search for "chess" interesting. I've just watched the 2016 documentary "Magnus". There's other interesting items." One of which is, "Closing Gambit: 1978 Korchnoi versus Karpov and the Kremlin" This has a load of "talking head"-like comments from Anand, Karpov, Ka...

"My opponent gave this two moments of serious thought before delivering his objective assessment in front of everyone. "No you didn't.""

Matthew was much more polite than that!

I can equal that. In the Somerset League, you can use anyone in Division 1, but in Division 2, you are allowed one player graded over 165. Sedgemoor and Millfield ran teams in both divisions. In March last season, I lost to Matthew Turner in Division 1, not without some chances though. The club then...

Users of Amazon Prime might find a search for "chess" interesting. I've just watched the 2016 documentary "Magnus". There's other interesting items.

Nobody has said anything, so I'll agree it's interesting!

Barclays - gxf8=Q+ looks a good reply to the move about to be played.

"It's a 2 storey hotel in the middle of the golf course"

I'm imagining Tiger and Rory deciding whether to fade round it or go over the top...

"(You've undoubtedly retained your ascorbic wit.)"

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