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The St Louis Rapid & Blitz will be followed by the Sinquefield Cup, a Classic event, which starts on Saturday 18th August. Magnus Carlsen will be playing therein. The blitz and rapid events looks mouth-watering as always. Lots of incredible chess and drama hopefully. Will the Sinquefield Cup be the...

Are full results and crosstables anywhere? Another report (from Tim Wall) here: https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/heavenly-hull-a-report-from-tim-wall/ Prizewinners: https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/prizewinners-2018/ Full results and crosstables on chess-results.com: http://ch...

Might be best to keep the discussion general now that this specific case has been decided. Or even stop the discussion as it still has the potential to get quite political!

Random Person who may be NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 09, 2018 8:49 pm

For clarity, the quote is from The Times, not David himself.

You can edit the post to say that directly, as I did above.

Heh. Good spot. I am sure there are other such connections as well, especially if you look at Ireland, Scotland and Wales (and the Channel Islands and so on) and some of the weaker Anglophone countries. A more obscure example is John Dempsey who transferred in 2015 from SCO to the ISV (the US Virgin...

I see Ben Hague (ex Rochdale, Oldham, Bradford 4NCL) is playing for New Zealand possibly on top board by the look of it Ben Hague reached 216 in the July 2010 ECF list. His current FIDE rating of 2404 is impressive (equivalent to 227 ECF). Spotted another couple of players with an England connectio...

What? Lawrence Cooper has done (and still does do) a huge amount for women's chess in England and generally. Among other things, organising invitational tournaments at the London Chess Classic for female players. I was under the impression that Harriet Hunt made a decision to focus on her studies an...

Oh dear. Fate duly tempted. 4/5. Better not make any more predictions!

Maybe the thread will get locked after a threefold repetition?

After 56.Rxg7 Kxg7 57.e6 are any of the plausible moves by the king any better for Black? i.e. 57...Kf8/Kg8/Kh7?

I linked to that page above and quoted from it already. But am having trouble working out what this bit means: "In the case of a tournament with pre-determined pairings, the full requirements, other than score, must be met for the complete tournament." Especially when read in conjunction with part 3...

One interesting note is that Ivan Cheparinov, listed here as playing under the FIDE flag because of the problems in Bulgarian chess discussed under a different thread is now listed as Georgian in the FIDE ratings. This was approved and minuted in the recent presidential board meeting and the right ...

Makro presumably 4.8%.
You are not implying that maybe only 10 people and their cats voted are you??

The posts by Roger and Nick are focusing on ways to go beyond the rules, but what I am asking is whether it is possible (the wording of the FIDE Handbook certainly implies it is possible) to play an entire tournament of more than 9 rounds and to then select 9 games from that tournament and submit it...

Fascinating! A bit more background from another thread; https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9769&start=375#p218496 https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9769&start=375#p218499 https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=9769&start=375#p218506 http://www.bedfordchess.co.uk/b...