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Zhao Xue not able to play and has been replaced, but Ju Wenjun is playing

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I stayed there a couple of times and ate at the 19th hole if memory serves which is on the golf course a couple of minutes walk from the hotel It's a 2 storey hotel in the middle of the golf course I liked it and thought it was 1 of the better venues Not far from the motorway but quite a way out of ...

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 20, 2020 8:57 pm

Great offer from the Russkis - a pre-event stay in a quiet country house near Moscow.

Bugged so that their prep is then passed on to the 3 Russian players?

I think the WC match is due to be in Dubai so would depend on their view

Is that the one where you replace the knights?

I think Wang Hao has been in Tokyo for a while and is not going back to China before going to Russia so surely is safe to travel, although I see he was intending to go back to Beijing briefly

Ding Liren may be more of an issue as he is in Wenzhou

R 01 (March 17, 2020)

Radjabov – Caruana
Ding Liren - Wang Hao
Giri - Nepomniachtchi
Grischuk - Alekseenko

Very sad although not unexpected news

As Martin says, Paul moved to Whalley in Lancashire where he told me he had a large collection of chess books, and played chess for Lancashire, for Heywood, and for Manchester Manticores in the 4NCL

An interesting person to talk to, and a genuinely nice guy

I see from the Chess,com article that the two Chinese players meeting in the first round was deliberate "As the regulations stipulate, players from the same country are facing each other in the early rounds. The two Chinese players meet in rounds 1 and 8, and the three Russians play each other in r...

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It also seems odd to me that children are being introduced to Jesuits, though; not great at 3 I'd have thought, not great at 10 to 17 in my personal experience

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