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I have been reading a bit about chess in the late 19th century. There was a postal match during that time when England beat Scotland and the Scotch opening was played. Does anyone know the year? I would also like to know when people think the first international match was. Would it be the 1932 Olym...

As the previous thread on senior events has become side-tracked, it is time to start a new one. I have updated my Seniors (and Irish) pages at: http://www.chessmail.com/index.html The regulations are finally available for the European Senior Team Championships to be held in Mali Losinj, an island in...

It's also a matter for how the Irish rating system will handle these games. I am not on the ICU committee or a ratings expert. I only said what the Chief Arbiter told me. I would have thought the fairest thing is to rate these games for the opponents as won by them, or treat them as wins by default ...

James lost in the last round today but he said he has gained enough points.

For the record, player X beat higher-rated opponents on the board in rounds 1-3 and 5. These results have all been reversed by the Chief Arbiter for tournament purposes but it remains to be decided how they should be rated. The first complaints about X were received after round 2. The round 3 oppone...

A few years ago, I think it was 2016, Iceland was to host the European Team Championships and they were allowed to have a second team. They decided it should be a senior team and Hjartarson was on it. So they decided to play the World Senior Teams first to warm up. Fridrik Olafsson was on the team t...

He was supposedly born in Kilkenny but there is no birth record in the name of Mason. Efforts (by other people) to find out what his original "Milesian" name was were thwarted by a certain journalist on a Birmingham paper (R. J. Buckley?) who claimed to know the name but refused to reveal it to the ...

Sounds like James Mason to me.

Draw this evening with GM Epishin won't harm Jackson's cause. He may be there now - or does he need to be 2400+ at the end of the event, or on the May list?

Round 1 in the 50+; top four matches: Scotland v USA; Armenia v Ireland; Germany Women v Iceland; England 1 v Oslo In the 65+ with 27 teams they have given the bye to 17th seed Belgium, which is unusual; maybe one of their team is late arriving. England 1 v Sweden 3 should be one-sided. The team num...

...There are some errors in the round 7 totals given in Tim's summary for the round 8 pairings. Yes I was just copying the figures given in chess24 which still seem to be wrong for some players at present. In the last round Terry has drawn and Keith won but the site is showing their totals out of 8.

Terry Chapman lost in round 6 (to Milos Pavlovic), but in round 7 he is one of a group of 5 on 4.5/6, half a point behind his conqueror who is the new leader. Keith Arkell in a group of 6 on 4/6. Round 7 is later today. Terry playing Fabio Bruno. Unfortunately Terry lost again; two Blacks in a row ...

Ah yes, I had forgotten 2015. That was when Wesley had a melt-down with one of his losses being an arbiter ruling for note-taking,

Probably Wesley was lost somewhere near the end of yesterday's game but the online engines may be wrong,

Three sharing the lead in Open (Dominguez, Nakamura, Caruana).
Robson got crushed by Gareyev and Wesley So could be going down. Sevian wlll be up to fourth if that happens.
Has Wesley So ever lost a game in the US Championship?

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Sat Mar 30, 2019 6:26 pm

Zatonskih-Yu the big game tonight

You were right. Jennifer is the champion!