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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 1:04 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1136
Re: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 3:24 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1136
Re: 4NCL 2023-24 Division Two
Gonzaga 8 - -3 Cambridge Uni 2
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 7:00 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1863
Re: Reykjavik 2024
Surely the Pollack game didn't end like that? He had a winning endgame and just dropped a rook to lose. Chess-results also showing a loss
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 3:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4117
Re: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
Note to self: NEVER act like a child.
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 5:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
- Replies: 30
- Views: 4117
Re: Without thinking about it too much... are you a bishop or a knight person?
Proves my pointMatt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Sun Feb 18, 2024 10:41 pmFischer played the Exchange Ruy Lopez regularly, but also liked his Bishops more generally.
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 8:03 pm
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Confusing Openings
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2524
Re: Confusing Openings
I had a 4ncl game several years back, which went 1.f4 e5 2.e4, when my opponent sank into thought as he didn't have 1.e4 e5 in his black repertoire.
- Wed Feb 07, 2024 9:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Mating Pattern
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1909
Re: New Mating Pattern
Or if you replace the doubled pawns with bishopsChristopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Wed Feb 07, 2024 7:31 pmYou get similar patterns if you replace the distant pawn (the one not next to the king) with the opposing king, and again if you remove the distant pawn and add a knight one square behind it.
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Recommend chess puzzles.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 904
Re: Recommend chess puzzles.
This is a classic. It's an enormous door stop of a book with 5000+ problems. Mainly mate in 2's and 3's, many of which are deceptively hard. Very useful for drilling/hardwiring all of the possible mating patterns into your brain. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Chess-5334-Problems-Combinations-Games/dp/157...
- Sun Feb 04, 2024 3:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Mating Pattern
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1909
Re: New Mating Pattern
Pretty sure I've seen this before in Polgars problem tome.
- Sun Jan 14, 2024 7:16 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: And so starts the 31st season
- Replies: 31
- Views: 3678
Re: And so starts the 31st season
A point screwed into the board today by Daniel Fernandez Vs Ravi Haria
- Fri Jan 12, 2024 12:02 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tata Steel 12 - 28 Jan 2024
- Replies: 65
- Views: 6360
Re: Tata Steel 12 - 28 Jan 2024
Your surprise winners will be Abdussattorov & Maurizzi
- Mon Jan 08, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12029
Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
Plus a provisional 208 rating from 2012 where he drew with Ameet Ghasi. Clearly a cock-up to allow him to enter. He single handedly ruined the online British, now he has robbed another group of players of their prize money.
- Sat Jan 06, 2024 10:16 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5968
- Views: 737705
Re: Media comments on chess
Anyone else watching the latest series of ' The Traitors ' ? One of the contestants, Anthony, cites his profession as a Chess Coach. The 3rd episode will be on tonight. Let's wish him good luck ! Some brief details here - 45 years old, from Birmingham and there's a photo. https://ratings.fide.com/p...
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 6:08 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12029
Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
No, he was literally playing the 1st move of the engine for a long sequence of moves.John Moore wrote: ↑Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:38 pmLike a strong GM, perhaps, would be a better way of putting it.
- Sun Dec 31, 2023 5:35 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
- Replies: 107
- Views: 12029
Re: Caplin Hastings 2023-24
Shreyas playing a phenomenal game, he is calculating like an engine.