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I would have thought that c) in preference to b) in a forced choice would be pretty easy.

I don’t really understand the point of the proposal, it would be interesting to know what the views of female players are (in the sense of indicating that there is a barrier to their participation in County chess that this proposal would remove). WhenAlex H brought such a proposal forward (along wit...

Fair to say that Magnus adequately rose to the challenge posed by Leonard's Saturday column?

Perhaps give it time - there are lots of other forcing lines that do not involve 7.Nd5, which would need to be learnt. Carlsen had time and assistance with these others lines last year, and he used to play the opening some years back anyway, but I would imagine that even other strong GMs might want...

Taking up a new opening is always a good way to revitalise your game. Given that so far nobody seems to have any answer to his Sveshnikov it's slightly surprising that there haven't been obvious signs of others following his lead.

Imagine there might be something of a story behind Sturua’s 19th move today (if chess 24 is to be believed...)

We'll call it the Brexit boom!

But on a serious note, there's obviously a lot of anecdotal, if not firmer, evidence of people steering clear of foreign trips around the intended March 29 exit date.

Start of Easter holidays combined with Brexit uncertainty meaning people haven't made plans to go away?

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 31, 2019 12:35 pm

Tim Harding wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 31, 2019 11:37 am

Probably Wesley was lost somewhere near the end of yesterday's game but the online engines may be wrong

I assumed that he was simply following an efficient route to the draw.

The online engines didn’t have a clue.

James Pratt wrote: ↑

Sat Mar 23, 2019 11:50 pm

So is Bryon Jacobs for that matter

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EDIT: oh, you mean there's no such person!

Is there still the option of running separate squads? That might be a way around it?

I don’t get this. This was not “the England team sponsored by PokerStars”. It was philanthropic sponsorship, not company sponsorship. There is no endorsement or promotion of a product behind accepting the money. As long as the source of the money is legal, it is better that it is used for good cause...

Interesting snippet that England appear to have been employing Boris Avrukh as team coach.

There’s also the issue of what grades are used when submitting results late or en masse - those at competition start, or those at time games were played. If there were no leagues submitting monthly, that's rather less of a problem, since it would only be Congress and 4NCL players whose ECF grades/r...

So the ECF needs to lay down some rules which leagues have to follow. The rules which would create minimum disturbance to current reporting patterns would be to require Congresses to follow FIDE timetable deadlines and for leagues and clubs to continue to report six-monthly. That's with the caveat ...