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They'll be singing in the streets of Odlar Yurdu tonight - with apologies to all who have done this joke before.

Thanks Nick. A game to encourage all of us and, in some ways, what chess is all about - a great fight.

Or perhaps he did claim the draw after Kh5 and the remaining moves weren't played on the board - that might make more sense.

Van de Griendt on Board 2 for White Rose had a completely crazy game. Absolutely dead lost at one point being a whole Rook down but Black managed to get all of his pieces on bad squares leaving his King and a couple of pawns to fight against a White Rook, Bishop and Knight. Then around the time cont...

Erdos-Amin shows another strong GM missing the stalemate defence. Certainly, one that's worth remembering in Rook and Pawn endings.

It was a nice finish by the Belgian but 12 o-o-o by Milosavac was a horrible move which led to an automatic attack for White. The Serb continued to play very fast right to the end presumably not having seen the idea of Qc4 followed by Qc6.

The Serbian Board 3 is, incidentally, the guy who beat Russian GM Pushkov yesterday. To go from that to playing 2 .. Be7 is, to say the least, startling.

In the Belgium-Serbia match in the over 65s, the Serbian board 3 (rated 2092) played 1 e4 e5 2 Bc4 Be7 as Black and the Belgian after some thought produced 3 Nc3 - shouldn't be too difficult to spot 3 Qh5, surely.

A strong tournament in which Ezra Kirk moves smoothly through to 4/4 having beaten a 2442 from Israel in Round 3 and played very well to beat Maxim Turov (2590) in Rd 4.

Thanks to Reg and Nick for this. It's certainly a step forward.

Hi all Has anyone registered for Chessbomb. The reason I ask is that I like the live game set up but I cannot stand the inane chatter from people who generally seem to have grades and IQs in double figures and that is before you get to the homophobes, xenophobes etc. I wondered whether if you regist...

Amazing - I agree with David Robertson!

Take a care, my dear Dr Petrie, look. It is the Wong board - do not sit there whatever you do. Fu Manchu is certainly hereabouts.

Fine win by Jon.

Huzman resigned in a position which doesn't look totally gone - ah well. Down to Jon Speelman who is probably enjoying his pawn up endgame position.