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I wonder if “accept money from anyone” would include taking sponsorship from the software company that publishes “Diana Crash Simulator”. As Streatham Rovers FC have just done. https://twitter.com/streathamrovers/status/1095300111037591552?s=21 That is a parody account: https://museumofjerseys.com/...

ECF ought to agree sponsorship with anyone I trust you are nowhere near membership of the Governance Committee. I wonder if “accept money from anyone” would include taking sponsorship from the software company that publishes “Diana Crash Simulator”. As Streatham Rovers FC have just done. https://tw...

You can still bookmark some pages, but not all. In the left-hand menu is a link titled 'bookmark'. If you click this, an URL appears in the browser's address bar, rather than displaying the php URL (someone else will have to explain how php works, something about websites being generated dynamically...

Interview/article on the Sadler-Regan book Game Changer on AlphaZero:

https://en.chessbase.com/post/interview ... hew-sadler

Impressive victory by 20-year-old Russian GM Vladislav Artemiev to win the tournament (8.5/10, 7 wins, 3 draws, performance rating of 2941). He is now number 20 in the world in the live ratings, and is being touted as "the new Vlad" (a reference to Kramnik's retirement).

Presumably (see retirement news elsewhere), Kramnik's invitation (if declined as expected) is extended to the first alternate instead, which is Karjakin.

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:43 pm

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 27, 2019 10:36 pm

Howell isn't doing much better.

Only winning three games in a row?

To be fair, at least one (possibly two) of those wins were after I had posted that.
I'll concede that winning three games in a row is going in the right direction...

Couple of questions from looking at the Live Ratings for January 2019: https://2700chess.com/ *Is Carlsen potentially going to pull ahead as undisputed world number 1 again? 16 points clear at the time of writing. *Will Giri finally soon get to the magic 2800 level? (Currently at 2797) *Kramnik has ...

Correct link is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVHmSq4BToM

No closed captions (subtitles). In some videos there is an option to turn on some automatic subtitling, but not here it seems.

Maybe there is a transcript somewhere?

Maybe that was a necessary sweetener to get the deal to go through? (I've not watched the interview.)

Hadn't realised Leonid Stein was only 38 when he died!

Feature on Carlsen appears in a 'home, art, design and lifestyle' magazine, courtesy of the chess-playing editor and her husband (chess GM Yannick Pelletier):

https://en.chessbase.com/post/magnus-carlsen-in-yunomi
https://www.yunomimag.com/lifestyle/201 ... nuscarlsen

J T Melsom wrote: ↑

Fri Jan 18, 2019 12:01 pm

And besides timely reporting of results isn't necessarily a problem - the list of events received for grading on the ECF website now includes an event from the London Dead. I wonder which membership category they are in?

That's funny. It's a typo for London Deaf.

Goodness. It might become a collector's item!

If we are talking academics who play chess, the list could get quite long. If you limit it to professors, the two mentioned here are a starting point, to which can be added Trevor Robbins (mentioned here and here ). Peter Swinnerton-Dyer Robin Matthews Trevor Robbins (Sorry for the side-track - anyt...