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Is this the one where they played on a larger board.

My guess then is that the second part is from a book.

That's interesting. Thanks Tim.

All your questions appear to be drawn from OlympBase so I predict the answer to the first part is the 1984 Olympiad at Thessalonika but I have no idea what the second part is about.

Because they had no chance of winning the event.

Perhaps George's younger brother Billy would have been a better bet at Chess Boxing.

Very sad news. Julian will be known to quite a few people on this Forum. As a former teammate of his, I remember Julian playing an important role on a high board in the early years of the old Barbican Youth team at the 4NCL. He greatly enjoyed his role as senior member of that squad. He continued to...

Kevin - there is a great big hole through which you can make your moves. Unless you tend to play your Bf7 sac with a huge flourish, I am sure you'd manage.

Nick - buy your own screen like those people who used to take their own digital clock when most of us were still struggling with analogue ones.

Phil Makepeace wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:55 pm

You mean this? One of my very few achievements is on that page.

And one of mine (1992-93!). Even though I was a lot stronger almost thirty years ago, I still claim the title of the weakest SCCU champion.

Which brothers met for the first time in an olympiad playing for different countries? Dan Yanofsky from Canada apparently first met his brother, one J Janofsky, at the Buenos Aries Olympiad in 1939. But I don't think you'll find that Mr J was playing in the Olympiad - he just happened to have moved...

Ian - openingmaster.com claims to have 29 million games. The link is on Lars Balzer's Downloads Index - more than that I don't know. I certainly haven't bothered downloading it. MegaBase does all that I want.

The Smyslov Memorial tournament in 1996 is a fruitful source for this topic. Martin Christoffel and Vassily Smyslov played in the original 1946 tournament and not again until the event 50 years later. It seems unlikely that they played in another event in the interim which did not make it to Megabas...

From the ECU website on restarting chess. The full document and a Youtube link is here https://www.europechess.org/how-to-restart-otb-chess-activities/ Space per player in playing halls shall be increased to cover at least the requirement of 1.5 m distance between the players. I am assuming though ...

Ian achieves 48 years - remarkable!

Well done to Ian with two sets of opponents with a gap of more than forty years! My record was only thirty-five years with Milan Vidmar-Ossip Bernstein (who for some reason is called Neil Bernstein in my copy of Megabase!) Vidmar and Bernstein played in two of the great tournaments at San Sebastian ...