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Well Oldham is a hotspot with 118 per 100,000; but the area I live in has only 20 per 100,000; but we get tarred with the same brush

It is just basically the normal grade using the normal conversion of ECF*7.5+700

After all, very few decided to avoid tournaments due to flu concerns, even though it kills a significant number of people every year and is highly contagious. It's because the risk was deemed acceptable. The fact that you can get vaccinated against flu might have something to do with it. ...and I s...

Cracking event tonight, Firouja, Giri, Svidler, most of the top English players

Great show for John

And also 5.... Qb6

Just seen a repeat of the Antiques Roadshow on Yesterday and there was a late 19th century chess clock shown

From Wigan chess club he mentioned that he posted it here on the Forum and somebody here offered £50, it was valued at £1,000

Technically, the prize money on offer is only available for a select few; if anything it is just a private wealth fund at present

Perhaps the players/arbiters are being constantly tested, whereas spectators aren’t and they look a good distance away as well

I will always look at the positives rather than concluding the negative from pictures because we just don’t know

The Polish Women's Chess Championship Mokate 2020 is currently ongoing in Ostrów Wielkopolski. Did I miss something? Are we back to normal now? Maybe with the distance between players, good hygiene and strict rules around spectators then this should be fine; all-play-all have minimal interaction so...

Used to be great and slightly infuriating having Winston in the same team when we played for Bradford, he was always one move away from a brilliancy or a blunder Good memories especially the season we won the Woodhouse, in which he was an integral member of this squad (there is a good picture after ...

A comparison of the number of obituaries reported on this board in 2020 against those in 2019 indicates that chess player deaths have increased markedly since Covid19. Kind of journalism the BBC have been doing recently; anything to mention Covid as a correlating factor, with or without any evidence

Nick Grey wrote: ↑

Sun Aug 02, 2020 3:34 pm

Suppose 80% of the teams consist mainly of players at high risk.
So glad I am not up north.

Well I am up north and I think my club will be fine; considering I am one of the older players at 45

Name them all, otherwise we end up going round in circles; these are players suddenly performing better than over the board; admittedly some players play better online, my rating is higher at blitz than my Fide rating, but some of the accuracy level go through the roof and there can only be one conc...

Agree it depends on the position and style of the game I had one game, one of those where pieces come off and quickly into a pretty equal drawn endgame, my opponent made one slight mistake and converted it; my acpl was lower than 10 with no inaccuracies, mistakes or blunders; even my opponents acpl ...

Yes, we can come to some pretty serious conclusions when an individual for whom we have lots of evidence that their playing strength OTB is (say) 1800 performs at 3000+ over a period, even a fairly short one, but not all disqualifications are of that nature - and can't be because not all cheating i...