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David's comments regarding Mickey agreeing to a draw so soon After Nikita lost. "...your team still need you"
"What happened to the '...team still need you' Corinthian spirit back in 2022 when David did not play in the last three matches to secure a board 3 gold."

The game is rarely just a game. As Paolo Maurensig writes in The Lüneburg Variation (1993): “Chess was born in bloodshed.” Like Zweig and others Maurensig’s chess play is set against the carnage of the Second World War. In Kurt Vonnegut’s short story “All the King’s Horses” (circa 1951), an America...

Hi Justin,

I know Tal did in 1972, he won the board 4 gold.

The incredible thing with Gukesh highlighting the slump the lad is in, in 2022 and 2024 he won the board one gold at the Olympiads.

I was was talking about Beth Harmon on another thread. Jamal Hamid 'Harmon' Gulamo (Mozambique) - Toby Brookfield (Guernsey) Rd. 2 Chess Olympiad 2026 3BRb2/1p3pkp/p3p1p1/P3P3/5PPK/3q1N1P/5Q2/7q w - - 5 44 White to play. (btw no mistake in the diagram, black does have a pair of queens and if it is a...

HI, Allen Scott https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Scott_(Scottish_screenwriter) bought the film rights in 1992 and spent years trying to get Hollywood to produce it. He along with Scott Frank are in the Netflix credits as creators and producers. It was going to be a film with Heath making his debu...

I was doing a non cryptic chess themed crossword. 1a. Knight in a strong position (7) Outpost yes. No I was convinced my answer was right. Answer: Octopus. Other clues I failed on. 3a Ricardo, chess player and author (5) 12a A path for a King (6) 2d Getting a piece in between attacker and its target...

Tim was a team mate of mine in the 80's and we often met on the terracing at Easter Road to watch Hibs.
I know nothing about why he left but he would have had a very good reason for him not to return the hall. Very unlike him.

This must be it al though it gives the impression it was played at 'chess.com' (where I picked it up from) in the Site tag. https://www.chess.com/events/ii-memorial-emilio-sanchez-jerez/08/Oro_Faustino-Plaskett_H_Jame s [Event "2nd Emilio Sanchez Jerez Memorial 2026"] [Site "Chess.com"] [Date "2026....

Not quite inappropriate but...

Do we have any way of knowing where the other games had got to at that stage? Were other games still in progress? D.H.Diggle (Bad Master) who was an eye witness is not sure when Botvinnik and Winter agreed a draw, but Capablanca v Bogoljubov was still going on. He also notes referring to the Winter...

Good thinking, usually this is the type of idea that someone would have in 2035 and by then it would be too late. I'm reminded about a book that Robert Richmond wrote, or was was getting fine tuned before going to a publisher about the 1936 tournament. Was it ever published. I did find this in a glo...

Here is the 2025 game Keith ttps://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2884530 It will seem like yonks ago because you play so many games, BTW you doing a run of 100 unbeaten in 201 days must be a record. You are correct about the middle order players being much stronger these days and when playin...

I saw Nick's post about his unbeaten streak and out of curiosity looked at chessgames.com. On there you can see a run of unbeaten games stretching from 2008 to 2011. The loss in 2008 and the loss which broke the C.G. run in 2011 was against the same player, Yang-Fan Zhou. https://www.chessgames.com/...

Amazing Keith, well done. 100 games without a loss! and your wins well outnumber your draws. 100 games in 221 days. Did you know you were close and went through the nervous 90's. Of course you do realise that you have now jinxed yourself. :wink: Good Luck and again well done. (By the by, just curiou...

...as I wanted to know who he was talking about! Hi Justin, I would hazard a real good guess it was Nona. In her book, ''I Prefer Risk' published in 1977 (I have tried to find out when, Karpov won Tilburg 1977 in September, so the chances are it was published before then.) She does say; (this is fr...