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Do we know yet who will qualify from the Grand Prix for the Candidates?

One thing that hasn't been commented on so much, is how the Conservative vote share 'only' went up by 1.2%. The party with the biggest percentage vote increase (though obviously not total vote increase) was the Liberal Democrats (a 4.2% increase). But they have always suffered from the FPTP handicap...

So this election wasn't a re-run of 1923. It appears to have been a re-run of 2017, but with some key differences (different Conservative leader, more Brexit fatigue, and a Labour heartland that had lost patience with Corbyn's Labour). Any thoughts on the election and what the future might hold?

Vishy on Vishy gems!

Chessbase article to mark Viswanathan Anand turning 50 today.

Maybe he is raising money for Children In Need?

Well, I can't even accurately calculate the finish that prompted Allan to resign here. Does it start 31...Rxf7 32.Qb8+ Kg7? Oh, I was missing 33.Be5+ (because the queen is on that square in the diagram).

Matt, you said earlier "I think when the Allan Pleasants game arrives it will be fairly eye opening." and " His win over Allan Pleasants was an engine-like destruction apparently." To me, that looks like a good attacking game, but nothing particularly spectacular (Allan playing 23...Bxe5 looks like ...

If Stewart Reuben is reading from the Caribbean, he might be interested in this: https://library.dmu.ac.uk/specialcollections/unboxingtheboxer#s-lib-ctab-15018334-2 "a film collection dating from the 1930s to the 1970s" I think I am right that he has a collection of chess-related film/TV items (thou...

The latest statement on the ECF library would appear to be the following item from the board's strategy statement presented to the AGM in October this year: "Work with De Montfort University Leicester to manage the transfer of the library from the Office to the DMU Special Collections facility." Re...

Chris, I have no idea how the library is organised but the image references seem to be just some random sequence of numbers. They are certainly nothing to do with the years 1917 to 1922 as you will see if you make the pictures a bit bigger. Oops. I got a bit too excited there. Thanks for spotting t...

was Jan/Feb 2005 the first issue of ChessMoves? No. The BCF had a newsletter going back at least to the 1970s. Paul Buswell would be better placed than me to say exactly what was published at that time. Thank you. I have ChessMoves (in a box somewhere) from the mid-1990s onwards (I think). I should...

Returning a couple of years later to this thread, I was trying to find details of the ECF National Chess Library on the ECF website, failed, and used Google and found this news item from 20 July 2017: The chess library The library stock has now been moved from the store in Eastbourne to our new offi...

Was poking around the ECF website, trying to find anything about the ECF Library, when I found this:

Development News

With the content:

pending...

Hmm.

Thank you for flagging that up, John. On a similar topic, is there a convenient listing anywhere of useful chess history (including past and current national chess federation newsletters) links. For the ECF, I think the closest is this: https://www.ecfresource.co.uk/chess-moves-archives/ I wonder wh...

Maybe FIDE feel that 'minor' events are something that should be handled at national level, and only certain cases should be raised to the level of being handled by FIDE. But FIDE should be providing leadership on the issue.