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Best of luck with this project. I find this a really exciting prospect that would be an invaluable resource for English Chess. Lets hope this virus bites the dust pronto.

[Event "Olympiad"] [Site "Moscow RUS"] [Date "1994.12.13"] [Round "12"] [White "Paul van der Sterren"] [Black "Jonathan Speelman"] [Result "0-1"] [ECO "B07"] [PlyCount "94"] [EventDate "1994.??.??"] 1. d4 d6 2. e4 Nf6 3. f3 d5 4. e5 Ng8 5. c4 e6 6. Nc3 dxc4 7. Be3 Nd7 8. Qa4 Ne7 9. Bxc4 Nf5 10. Bf2...

Neil Graham wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 10, 2021 4:36 pm

after a number of e-mails telling us the closing date for entries is 6th January at midnight. Then four days later the closing date is arbitrarily changed to 14th January without a whisper.

All of those emails said:

Late entries may be accepted with a 50% surcharge at the 4NCL’s discretion.

No because putting the word 'improvement' in the title gives the impression it is yet another cheap sell using a buzz word. Why isn't contentment the topic I wonder? Not so easy to profit from I strongly suspect. At least it wasn't entitled 'Secrets of...' this time. Unsurprisingly you are criticis...

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 09, 2021 10:38 pm

If you asked either author why improvement is the 'alleged' goal of the book I suspect the answer given would either be disingenuous or unreflective.

Did you read the book?

The article is so well written - it must be a man.

https://twitter.com/LaraWierenga/status/1229735089086566400 The largest-ever mega-analysis of sex differences in variability of brain structure. "This study shows greater mean and variance for males in subcortical volumes and cortical surface area and thickness" "Greater male variance is observed in...

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Was quite a result!

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:07 pm

How do we know it is a woman?

I have it on good authority that this article was written by Nigel Short.

Hikaru Nakamura discussed the same article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09ZdlbKVU7Y

Edit: I say "discuss", I should have said "reads".

He basically has a pop at Nigel Short. Reads the whole article out loud, then makes some comments at around 17:30

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 13, 2020 1:23 pm

Well I was employing a personal pronoun as a stand-in for copyright law

Uh huh

Simply well disguised concern. I should have known better

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 13, 2020 8:59 am

The link would suffice, you don't really want to be copying out whole articles

Telling me what i don't want to be doing now

https://slate.com/technology/2020/12/why-are-the-best-chess-players-men.html?fbclid=IwAR3Tgvl_H3gpJWXDun3Jirfl44prj71wbGk3RcVdAvpQZSPDPEpPC2YKt7o The Queen’s Gambit has been conquering Netflix viewing records much like its protagonist, a chess player named Beth Harmon, conquers the chess world. The ...

For the majority of players in the UK, this is the ONLY opportunity to play Fide rated games at a serious time limit. Taking that opportunity away is a very bad idea, and for many will diminish the appeal of team competition. If fixed matches are the problem, then just dont rate them instead of impo...