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Born in Thessaloniki, he organized two Olympiads there on 1984 & 1988

One of the 'great powers' of international chess. Cause of death not announced, but I suspect a cardiac problem. The reason I suspect that is that he underwent serious cardiac surgery a about decade ago (if I remember correctly 2014 +/- a year or so). He told me about that (perhaps in Tromso, I can ...

I have written a column for the East Anglian Daily Times. I have mislaid the precise start date which was in early April 1990. It has been published every Saturday since then plus a Tuesday column from 31/07/1990 until 08/08/2000. A total of 36 years and 5 months with a total of about 2419 columns a...

RIP Len.
We met at Bob Wade's (Alan Phillips' house in Blackheath). We did a lot of joint analysis on a semi main line of the Philidor. I do not remember whether that resulted in a publication, but I think it probably did.

RIP Tony. I recall Tony delivering a punch paper tape typesetting machine to my parents' home in Chadwell Heath in the early 1970s. IIRC I was typesetting games for The Chess Player magazine. Later on I acted as 'bagman' paying players for their game annotations (eg in Bath 1973 and Haifa 1976). I r...

Bodhana clinched her title in a tense rapid-chess playoff against Ireland's 14-year-old Trisha Kanyamarala. Errors such as the Adams unbeaten game run do seem to have a habit of perpetuating round the world as journalists repeat erroneous claims, The Irish player is in her twenties (born 2004 accor...

Royal 17 yrs 7 mo 0 days
Adams 17yrs 8 mo 25 days

Hope I got that right
Royal b. 9/1/2009 title 9/8/2026
Adams b. 17/11/1971 title 11/8/1989

Bodhana so close to completing her WGM (she scored 5.5 against Ra 2318, she needed 2320). Top scoring English female. Presumably Trisha's win against Mirzoeva, also scoring 5.5 counts. I had not realised that Irish players qualify for British titles, but she is shown in John's BritBase list as co ch...

The world age record for a female IM norm is by Polgar in the final rounds of Duncan Lawrie 1988 at 12 years 3 months 3 or 4 days. Lagno and Alice Lee got the !M title at 13, but probably didn't get any IM norms at 12. So if Bodhana gets her draw she would break Polgar's record by nearly a year. La...

I saw Nigel Short's blitz tournament (June 28, 9/9, *) in Vanuatu referred to as the Nigel Short Memorial Blitz. I did not screenshot it and can't now find it, but this is the tournament (no mention here of the Memorial aspect): *https://s3.chess-results.com/tnr1447312.aspx?lan=1&art=14&turdet=YES&S...

RIP Jimmy

Have the title award fees not been decided yet?

Sorry, NB-Turk 1809

I have worked out some of my Player Play numbers: Fischer 2 several ways, but preferred is by draws Wade-KO London (Athenaeum) 1974, RJF-W Havana 1965. Steinitz 3 ARB Thomas-KO Exeter 1969, Mieses-ARB Bournemouth 1939, M-Steinitz Hastings 1895 Morphy 4 multiple ways, e.g. Thomas-Mieses (as above), M...

Alex & Roger: Thanks for all that. The player concerned is ENG. I am left with the odd question or two, to be certain of my advice. With 3 GMs so far, it must be on the basis of 9 rounds, or, if 10, a 4th GM would be required (1.4.5) BUT In the 3rd & 4th tables in the Annex it is stated: Max 5 from ...