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How odd. I've replaced it with what appears to be exactly the same thing.

John Moore wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 19, 2026 5:12 pm

Yes, Ireland made 4 draws against Denmark - an excellent result. But Mads Andersen will be kicking himself (the double oversight referred to by Justin upthread)

All a matter of pattern recognition

Fun fact about the queen's gambit I discovered recently - heath ledger was a very keen chess player and after playing the joker in the dark Knight was in negotiations to direct his first movie which was going to be an adaptation of the queen's gambit I also discovered this recently, by reading the ...

Gukesh back in the 2700 club. Until the next game anyway. Was he ever out of it? According to 2700chess.com , he lost 3.5 points when he drew in Round 2. That result made his live rating 2699.5. That would have been rounded up to 2700 by FIDE if he hadn't played any more games this month. This is w...

England women lost to Azerbaijan with three draws and Lan Yao, who was never really at the races, getting beat. Scotland woman are going down 3-1 to Ukraine, with a couple of really creditable draws (Kanishka Bhatia, Alice Lampard). Ireland's Open team have a very good chance of drawing with Denmark...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 19, 2026 1:16 pm

Dehtiarov, rated more than 200 points behind Aronian, is threatening to crush him nonetheless

but he did not

Dehtiarov, rated more thsn 200 points behind Aronian, is threatening to crush him nonetheless

So we have become the first of the top 12 seeds to lose 100% record - and against a team without even four GMs. I saw there was an advantage of about a hundred points per board and thought, isn't that the kind of match in recent Olympiads that England have tended not to win? I note Brazil continue ...

Laurusas seems to have blundered inexplicably to hand the point to Luke though Gavin (less dramatically, but just as fatally) is lost against Pultinevicius

Aydin-Lu in Türkiye-China (women) agreed drawn after a massive mutual oversight (which I did not spot myself, I was listening to the commentary while having lunch).

I suggest that was more to do with what Leonard once called "the postal player's economy technique", designed to save on postage rather than envelopes. Once an envelope was covered with enough stamps, the next new stamp would be missed by the franking machine so that it could be used again. I think...

At the time I found it not just petty and unnecessary but surprising. However, in the forty years since I've learned a bit more about chess players and

I'll always have a soft spot for CC as it actually got me into playing Chess properly - I was going through a period of unemployment in my 20's and I happened upon the BCCA, by chance online, and joined up - at the time it was cheap entertainment and kept my brain ticking over. For reasons I can't ...

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 17, 2026 5:36 pm

Madagascar (99) beat Portugal (49) today. Admittedly, I only checked the match because one of my 4NCL team players was involved.

Levin for Chess.com seems to have missed this, though he spotted El Salvador beating Cuba.

I assume there is an exception for checkmate and stalemate