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Commentary on chess24 with David Howell, Judit Polgar, Tania Sachdev and Magnus Carlsen For Rounds 8-10, Magnus will be joined by Tania Sachdev and David Howell, while for the last four rounds Judit Polgar will team up with Tania and guests for live commentary The players are required to have a neg...

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 14, 2021 3:10 pm

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:57 pm

IoM reopening businesses on Monday 19 April

The question for the Grand Swiss is when they reopen their borders to visitors.

Indeed, but they seem to be progressing with vaccination faster than us, so maybe their target date of September to reopen their borders will be met

FIDE were proposing to repeat their World Championship Swiss qualifier in the Isle of Man in autumn. The Isle of Man has self-isolated and I don't think has given any statements as to when it will reopen the borders . Most recently it went back into lockdown having imported an outbreak via a Manx b...

Alex & Lara congratulations

Yes, noon UK time according to the countdown clock at chess24live TWIC has New schedule: R8 (Mon 19th Apr 12pm BST), R9 (Tue 20th Apr 12pm BST), R10 (Thu 22nd Apr 12pm BST), R11 (Fri 23rd Apr 12pm BST), R12 (Sat 24th Apr 12pm BST), R13 (Mon 26th Apr 12pm BST), R14 (Tue 27th Apr 12pm BST) and TB if n...

Vaccines alone will not stop Covid spreading - here's why The Swiss cheese model Many of us are hoping vaccines against coronavirus will be our route out of lockdown, enabling us to reclaim our old lives. But scientists say jabs alone will not currently be enough and other measures are still needed.

The three sizeable countries with the highest vaccination rates are Israel, Chile and the UK. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/israel-and-chile-both-led-on-covid-jabs-so-why-is-one-back-in-lockdown and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/is-vaccinating-against-covid-eno...

The three sizeable countries with the highest vaccination rates are Israel, Chile and the UK. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/israel-and-chile-both-led-on-covid-jabs-so-why-is-one-back-in-lockdown and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/is-vaccinating-against-covid-eno...

2019/20 rules 1.2 Each team in Division 1 must include at least one male player and at least one female player. 1.3 Each team in Division 2 must contain representatives of at least two of the following categories: adult male players; adult female players; junior players who are under 18 years on 11...

Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 11:40 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:27 pm

Naka tried to take a (losing) move back a few years ago, didn't he?

That probably didn't go down well with many of his peers, now that you mention it.

Yes. Against Aronian.

There was also a double handed castling incident in a play-off game but I forget the details.

Pete Doggers

The 2019/20 regional stages were completed, I think; G Man qualified for the u160 National Stages, which have now been abandoned This seems fair enough to me, as getting enough players willing to travel long distances to play county matches OTB is going to be considerably harder, I'm not sure I fanc...

Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:44 pm

FWIW I also feel the wider chess community is underperforming in terms of how it responds to cheating and unethical behaviour

Indeed, but I doubt we're surprised about that

Syzygy 7 man endgame tablebase too

Recommended minimum charity trustees is five so, even with Eric Schiller's passing, they're presumably still on the right side of that - although, in this case, three are family members and can't by any stretch be considered independent. That's a situation which I imagine many would consider unsati...

Recommended minimum charity trustees is five so, even with Eric Schiller's passing, they're presumably still on the right side of that - although, in this case, three are family members and can't by any stretch be considered independent. That's a situation which I imagine many would consider unsati...