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Can’t honestly say I’ve ever seen 2Q+p vs 2Q before!

Shreyas Royal is on 5/7. Just being shy of +4 W-We I think gives him a reasonable chance of a rating prize

Thanks, apologies to Jack! Still seems strange to me that such an “easy” qualification route has been reintroduced!

is this really the new qualifying criteria? https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/qualifying-regulations-2020/ (b) Other FIDE Rated Open Congresses (completed 1st July 2019 – 30th June 2020) with a field of 25 players or over Any player who achieves a TPR of 2300 or higher achieved over a min...

I believe that alcohol is frequently recommended in these situations. You were referring to Marcus Harvey losing the Armageddon game he only needed to draw, having had a winning position (e.g. failing to play 41.Rxc2+), then managing to lose? I'll quote the lone comment at Chessbomb on the game: Wo...

I haven’t been paying attention - is this really the new qualifying criteria? One 4 game streak performing at 2400? In a tournament like this all you need is slightly shock result. In fact not even that if you beat a number of weakfish players. Have the ECF effectively now disowned the aims of the r...

Scrap that! I’m confusing myself

Hasn’t it already finished with Marcus white and a draw?

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:34 pm

Carl Portman wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 30, 2019 3:30 pm

I knew you would be first to post (negatively of course) and just won £10 on the bet.

Who took the other side?

Surprised the odds weren’t prohibitive.

On the basis of published participants and pairings, Adam Taylor is going to be a bit overworked this morning!

Has anybody won. or lost, a shorter game than mine? No, but only because when playing Jovanka in a rapidplay around 25 years ago I failed to resign after the moves 1. e4 d5 2.ed Nf6 3.c4 e6 4. de Bxe6 5. Nf3 Qe7 6. Qa4+ Bd7+ I was once, at a Barbican rapidplay (or possibly even Barbican Congress!) ...

There is of course another massively obvious flaw in the “idea” (let’s ignore what it would do for chess databases etc!). Player A is trying to win in, say, an ending, and plays on for hours trying to create the decisive breakthrough but just can’t find a win. Eventually they finally give up and off...

I made a counter-argument. A v B. A moves, offers a draw and presses the clock. B sits there. And sits there. With his flag hanging, he decides to swap colours. Now suddenly A has hardly any time to play the black position. I'm not sure that's fair. I assume you take your clock time with you! I dis...

It’s a game. It combines elements of chess and poker. Surprisingly good fun after a few drinks. What’s the problem?

Just because one (highly minority) sport has grown without free to air TV xposure Are you referring to basketball? If so, surely the point is that basketball, as in playing it, is not a highly minority sport, people just think it is. Ok fair point, I don’t know the figures. How about “non tradition...