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by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 28, 2024 10:19 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
Replies: 16
Views: 1361

Re: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?

I present an extract from Hans Olav Lahlum's instructions to the players in the Fagerness tournament: “Important information for all hotel guests: Following the Norwegian fire regulations, it is strictly forbidden to make any kind of hot meals with any kind of electronic or manual equipment inside t...
by Kevin Thurlow
Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:54 pm
Forum: County Championships
Topic: Manchester in the NCCU
Replies: 58
Views: 9908

Re: Manchester in the NCCU

I would think that the late player should have been defaulted one hour after the scheduled start of the match. But once he had been allowed to start, it seems wholly unreasonable to stop the game later and then try to claim the default. In the circumstances, the 0-0 result looks right. But two playe...
by Kevin Thurlow
Wed Mar 27, 2024 1:39 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: FIDE General Assembly
Replies: 11
Views: 1536

Re: FIDE General Assembly

I agree with Jack and Roger. Also, the cross on the top of the king is just to distinguish easily from the queen, and the pieces are called different things in different languages. In German, the bishop is a runner, the knight is a jumper, the rook is a tower (tall building not someone who tows a ca...
by Kevin Thurlow
Wed Mar 27, 2024 9:21 am
Forum: International News
Topic: FIDE General Assembly
Replies: 11
Views: 1536

Re: FIDE General Assembly

I have received an email from someone calling himself Xerxes. There are about 100 recipients openly copied, some very distinguished, others less so... "Dear members of the International Chess Federation, Chess is a game with a long history. It originated in Hindu India before spreading to Zoroastria...
by Kevin Thurlow
Tue Mar 26, 2024 5:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?
Replies: 16
Views: 1361

Re: Is This Arbiter's Interpretation of the Laws Correct?

"We agreed the draw although I've known players who, given the same circumstances, would try to claim a win on time. Is there a definite ruling on this?" I think you did the right thing, and unless you have an arbiter actually watching (in a tournament), the draw is the right result. If I were such ...
by Kevin Thurlow
Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:53 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Media comments on chess
Replies: 5977
Views: 742191

Re: Media comments on chess

"Neighbours" today featured chess again. Paul Robinson was expertly setting up the board 9 the knights were facing inwards, not justly randomly positioned), as he talked to another character, the camera shot changed, but now the black pieces were on his side of the board, when previously he had the ...
by Kevin Thurlow
Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:35 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Actors and Masters
Replies: 10
Views: 527

Re: Actors and Masters

I believe "Chess Fever" (1925) may count. It is fiction, but includes Capablanca as himself.
by Kevin Thurlow
Fri Mar 22, 2024 10:31 am
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: OGWT
Replies: 26
Views: 869

Re: OGWT

"Ready Steady Go! (with Cathy "Oi'll give it foive" McGowan) comes to mind ..."

Surprisingly, that only ran from 1963 - 1966.
by Kevin Thurlow
Fri Mar 22, 2024 8:47 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37400

Re: Britbase Updates

Thanks - I saw him a lot when living and playing in the South-East. He was clearly a devout Christian. At an Easter Congress he was heard shouting in the street approaching the venue, "Rejoice, Christ is risen!" He always had a carrier bag with him, and we found an abandoned one at the tournament. A...
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:46 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: OGWT
Replies: 26
Views: 869

Re: OGWT

Top of the Pops dealt with the singles charts and I suspect most of those were the usual 2.5 - 3 minute songs (although Bohemian Rhapsody in 1975 was longer). OGWT usually covered tracks that were frequently longer and not, er, "pop". It's all a matter of taste. The well-known and controversial clas...
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 10:19 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 269
Views: 37400

Re: Britbase Updates

There's a mention of STK Wilkinson in the junior event - I assume he is no longer with us?
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 3:02 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: Reykjavik 2024
Replies: 53
Views: 4888

Re: Reykjavik 2024

And Peter Large won as well.
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 11:36 am
Forum: International News
Topic: Reykjavik 2024
Replies: 53
Views: 4888

Re: Reykjavik 2024

I meant to comment that the venue is great. I went in 2018 and was impressed that the bar had a "Happy Hour" during the tournament, where beer was half-price (bringing it down to roughly London prices...). But the definition of "Hour" was "throughout the playing session, and beyond", to ensure that ...
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 8:28 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Media comments on chess
Replies: 5977
Views: 742191

Re: Media comments on chess

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-68623380

Amazing. Not sure how the poor chap gets round the anti-cheating rules...
by Kevin Thurlow
Thu Mar 21, 2024 7:55 am
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: OGWT
Replies: 26
Views: 869

Re: OGWT

OGWT was on fairly late on BBC2 I think, so probably did not have a massive audience. I watched occasionally, and saw Meat Loaf (1978), which featured the first TV broadcast of "Paradise by the Dashboard Light", (performed live), I think he did "Bat out of Hell" and another track also. Needless to s...