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Sorry if this is the wrong thread, but is there really nothing on the London Chess Classic main event? Unless I am mistaken, Carlsen has just got knocked out at the semifinal stage, after two rather unexciting standard games and some more interesting shorter ones. His victor MVL plays Ding, who put...

This thread is perhaps in the wrong section, but more than a touch of drama in Jones v Howell yesterday?

I believe that alcohol is frequently recommended in these situations.

Having black gives him a chance, you might think.

I mean! Could he?!

Heading to Armageddon, then! "Impressed"

next game already, so presumably first was drawn and no one stopped Black's clock or noted the result (on chess 24)?

Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑

Sun Dec 01, 2019 7:25 pm

seemingly so, I must make a point of watching the play-off!

not that I am finding it easy to do so. presumably Harvey isn't thinking for 8 minutes (or more) at move 53?

seemingly so, I must make a point of watching the play-off!

and no apostrophe at all for the College not named after any Murray Edwards, he adds mischievously

I don't follow these last posts, surely Rowson is much more a philosopher than a politician? (I am trying to imagine him canvassing on doorsteps; and in my imagination, he isn't enjoying it too much).

I find this all quite amusing. Cummings, the man who walks around swearing at idiots, whilst himself carrying papers around in plastic bags and yelling to the Leader of the Opposition across the halls of Westminster, mistaken at first to be some mad man from the street; that Cummings - he used to be...

So in order, Manx play Blackthorne Russia, Barbican 2, Guildford 2, Wood Green, then Cheddleton, Grantham and finally Gonzaga Is that roughly what you'd expect from "normal" seedings? Wood Green Monarchs rather than the first team. Facing both Guildford 1 and Manx Liberty on the same day is quite a...

Actually I notice now that the four seeds in pool A are exactly the same as last year - Guildford 1, White Rose, Wood Green 1, Barbican 1. That's a bit dull, and we are even playing on the same sundays in the same order of weekends ...

So in order, Manx play Blackthorne Russia, Barbican 2, Guildford 2, Wood Green, then Cheddleton, Grantham and finally Gonzaga Is that roughly what you'd expect from "normal" seedings? Wood Green Monarchs rather than the first team. Facing both Guildford 1 and Manx Liberty on the same day is quite a...