English Chess Forum

Apologies for singling you and Chris Ward out. It does puzzle me how and why some GMs (as you say, often the active ones) decline to lower levels of rating, and some stay relatively high. To take two more examples: Danny King and Jonathan Parker (neither particularly active as far as I know). One e...

De mortuis nil nisi bonum. My dad who recently passed away aged 90....told me this saying is absolute tosh and I agree with with him (in moderation) I am sure when I go there will be plenty to speak both good and ill of me :) that said I do not know the lady above but I do recognise her from playin...

slightly off topic but I think this is a bizzare olympiad record of sorts....in 2010 Una O'Boyle from Ireland got the WCM title by virtue of playing a variety of different opponents in the chess olympiad.....she never qualified for a chess rating because she is too weak and to this day never had or ...

Thanks Roger
fountain of knowledge as usual
Regards
Martin

I stand corrected ... English girls champion ..I read that somewhere...not British ch....sorry about that...and which of us has not embellished the occasional personal achievement now and then? mine is that I once drew with a Russian Grandmaster while representing my country in Chess! now it was an ...

I am sorry to report that I recently learned of my friend and fellow Irishman, John O' Toole's passing some time last year. I first met John in 1991 shortly after I came to the UK and joined Greenford chess club in West London where John was the captain for many years. John introduced me to the Cave...

RIP Ken.
Ken was a regular first team player for the Cavendish first team as long as I can remember and a solid 190 player.... I never knew he travelled so far for matches....what fantastic committment.

I just recently read about Ms. Reeves chess claims and politics aside, my understanding is that back in the old days there were very few women's chess competitions and the highest placed woman or girl competitor in an open competition such as the underage British championships would be crowned the g...

RIP Gavin, my only IM scalp...a great compeditor... I remember having an argument with him about his sudden change of FIDE affiliation to Ireland and joining the Irish team as a result of his friendship with Mark Quinn and Paul Delaney more than 20 years ago now....that must have fired him up becaus...

I recall a wonderful story that Stewart told me several years ago....Stewart was at an international tournament (perhaps officiating?) with several strong GMs participating....probably the 60's or 70's...among the GMs was Pal Benko. They were staying at the same hotel and Stewart ended up playing so...

rules are rules....was there not a well known UK IM ...JC? that turned up in PJs at a tournament a few years back? ...I know of a few lesser rated Irish characters that did the same in some Irish weekend tournaments a few years ago. I think the dress code rules are a little more relaxed at holiday e...

Hi Keith Sorry to hear about your problems with the ECF selectors....for what it is worth having read your comments I do take your side. On a related ? matter Have you changed federation and left the ECF and joined the ICU and got a recent Irish passport? because the organisers of the ICU over 50's ...

Tim, obviously a Joe Biden moment there I think Baburin will be a second favourite....too many draws and father time is not on his side anymore.

well that has all changed since you posted 30 entries...there are now an all time record (by some margin) of 52 entries headed by GM Baburin and IM Fitzsimons and a whole bunch of underrated improving youngsters in the chasing pack. I think 7 points might be enough to win the championship this year....

Roger you beat me too it by a few secs... was just checking
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