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It means the people who came 21st this year have now qualified?

EDIT: or maybe just theoretically rules people out but not people in.

I do wonder if there is potentially an element of the positive effects of Carlsen’s new “aggressive” black repertoire (and World Champ prep) wearing off. The other players are catching up and setting him problems (which is always inevitable in “sharper” openings) and he’s started to jump about and v...

Thanks, Roger. All tremble with trepidation at the mere thought of the arrival of Phonefinder General... Well there is this current practice of random “metal detector” scans being done of players at British tournaments before the game has started. I presume the point is purely symbolic, because if ...

If I saw anyone taking a photo of me over a toilet cubicle in England it would be citizen's arrest (committing an offence - indecent photographs) and straight on the phone to the police. They can explain in a police interview at the police station why they thought they had a legitimate reason to do...

Banning snipers would create an existential problem for this forum.

http://chess-results.com/tnr394126.aspx ... ES&flag=30

Some people just can’t get enough chess.

So those on +1 in the Championship qualify. Those on 50 percent do not. No wonder the absence of the top players and lack of significant sponsorship. Is the press on rules LIKELY to encourage sponsorship for the next CHAMPIONSHIP. I don't really follow. How are the last two sentences related to the...

Dan Fernandez had another shocker today to finish on 50%. Slightly surprisingly, at least to me, he only dropped 13 Elo points overall. He didn’t, he lost around 20. Still he was hardly alone in that regard. Liked the T-shirt he was sporting today though... “It’s a Daniel thing. I don’t expect you ...

The next 2600 is an interesting question. I tried to think of another sport where amateurs on the fringes of international class compete with hardened professionals. I thought of Michael Hutchinson in cycling time trialling, who was very dominant in domestic championships and very occasionally in h...

My personal contribution. I was in blissful ignorance of this for almost 20 years.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1283811

Top board interesting as Ravi has played one of those systems against Mickey's 1 e4 e5 - in this instance the Scotch Four Knights - in which Black can equalise happily enough, but can't really get much play without straying onto iffy territory. That's nevertheless the way he's gone, and after White...

Luke would be Lendl. Hebden and Henman go quite well together.

Lots to do on a train to Torquay

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Fri Jul 26, 2019 5:17 pm

only one title, so he cannot be Murray. Not sure who he is instead. Will he be happy with Wawrinka? The tennis analogy does have its limits ...

Two surely? He’ll have to be Nadal. Left handed as well.

In the first game of this year's Turkish Super League, there was a game between WIM Filiz Osmanodja and IM Gunay Mammadzada. Filiz was white and after playing her 9th move, in a standard Sicilian, she went to get a coke from the downstairs cafe. Unfortunately, as she left the playing area without p...