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Oooh, 26.Qxe6+. Sweet.

Oooh, 26.Qxe6+. Sweet.

Something tells me black probably didn't actually play 44...Qe3+ in that game.

but today features an all-Caribbean clash, Dominica and Dominican Republic, which seems to be the nearest thing to a local derby. Although if your metric is "distance between the two capitals", Türkiye v Jordan is slightly closer. EDIT: Looking down the list, I think San Marino v Bosnia wins the di...

Could it be that a lot of youngsters taking up chess during the pandemic, then chewed up players like me OTB while they were lowly rated, before giving up or reaching their peak when they went to university, or started working just as their rating was reaching that bracket? That process is then rep...

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Sun Sep 06, 2026 9:38 pm

It will happen one day and then there will be trouble!

There won't be any trouble at all. If it's unclear which one to exclude, it won't matter, because whichever you exclude will produce the same result.

Beating your rivals for first place is usually going to have a massive effect under Sonneborn-Berger, for obvious reasons: they're a high-scoring opponent, and you beat them.

Most of the bridge books I see in collections seem to be comedy titles - Bridge In The Menagerie and the like.

"The Nigel Short Memorial Blitz took place in Suva," It could be more of a "tribute" event and it's lost in translation (as you said), "remembering" equating to "memorial"? The English Federation for Correspondence Chess has been running these tribute events for a few years, where they want to than...

Possibly a 10-round norm.

Thanks Alan. Had another thought. Can anyone confirm if FIDE title norms are possible outside Division One. Does the "national team competition" bit allow for lower divisions? My second norm was in Division Two. (That one required a lot of opponent-arranging, because going into round 9, I had 7/8, ...

Someone called Rudd got two IM norms in consecutive seasons a while back. (2006/07 and 2007/08.)

I have been known to institute foodstuff-specific rules such as "no eating crisps in the playing area while play is in progress".

I was trying to win that game, but we kinda cancelled each other out. Ah well, at least I made a par performance after my disaster at the British.

You have asked me this question before, and I agree with your interpretation of it.