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Nick Ivell wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 14, 2020 12:34 pm

I cannot believe David is 30!

Does he really play for Cheddleton? I thought he might have been poached, if I may risk a word which has caused offence on these pages before...

He now plays for Guildford, well he did this season

Another one is Matthew Webb but stopped playing past few years I think. He went from 94 in 2000 to 178 in 2010 and 192 in January 2014 but then 247 in 2018 Year of birth 1986. so first played graded chess at age of 13 or14 but didn't get really good until well into his mid to late twenties and earl...

I think you are younger than Mark? so if you were an established player and Mark was board 50 then that suggests he was a late starter, so it may well be that it was 11. At the 1993 U18 Team National Rapidplay Champs; Mark played Board 2 for Surrey (board one may have been Blair Connell) I thought ...

The point is Israel does exist in the eyes of the IOC and thus FIDE I suspect pressure is being applied by the IOC to stop the current situation, and want to follow the Judo line and suspend Iranian federation But I also agree with what Jonathan said, and is unlikely to change the Iranian government...

I've been idly following Phil's prospects here for some while. District 1 is a rock-solid REP seat. Yet the local polling has, these past several weeks, been calling it far, far closer than 65-34; never 'too close to call' though. The incumbent, Gaetz, is a rancid piece of work. But clearly, the vo...

Another factor could be the reducing strength of the junior events at the British; back when I was playing these (around 1990) the events where very strong; nowadays because they let any Tom, Dick or Harry into the championship has impacted this; back then it was extremely difficult to qualify, so ...

Another factor could be the reducing strength of the junior events at the British; back when I was playing these (around 1990) the events where very strong; nowadays because they let any Tom, Dick or Harry into the championship has impacted this; back then it was extremely difficult to qualify, so w...

I think the sense of community goes a long way. In England it’s less likely that young people are in friendship groups with other strong players the same age, especially the further north you travel in the country as the talent thins out enormously. The power of friendship groups is explored in Bar...

I think we have to remember the Spanish Flu affected the age group of 20-50 predominately, which were already in a bad position after 4 years of arguably one of the biggest conflicts in history Covid is a different virus, affects predominately the older population I personally think some of the mode...

I think this title is missing a r

Rocco was born 2003, so 16 or 17 and thus a rare sight these days, an English junior travelling far in search of opportunities and rewarded by success. He already showed promise in the 2019 British Championship where he defeated Wadsworth and Fernandez in the first two rounds before dropping back t...

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...