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by Jonathan Rogers
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:48 pm
Forum: 4NCL
Topic: 4NCL Time control
Replies: 10
Views: 369

Re: 4NCL Time control

Bad. You assume far too much in thinking that the buses will be full of mercenary GMs. Moreover, no one is saying that there is a shortage of opportunities for domestic players to play 4NCL - the reverse is true, it is getting ever harder to get full teams out and so having the option of asking a pl...
by Jonathan Rogers
Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:33 pm
Forum: 4NCL
Topic: 4NCL Time control
Replies: 10
Views: 369

Re: 4NCL Time control

Is 4NCL the same as the Bundesliga? Would it be possible for an earlier start on either day? Is it possible to survey the players at the final weekend? The current 4NCL time limit is the same as the German league - https://www.schachbundesliga.de/die-liga/format . An earlier start on Saturday proba...
by Jonathan Rogers
Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:03 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3252

Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles

about 2150-2200. I played him in the the Universities Championships 1991, Oxford v Nottingham. The time when Nottingham beat Oxford and Cambridge on the same day :D For another thread no doubt, but which is the strongest University now? It was Warwick a few years back but these things can change qui...
by Jonathan Rogers
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:21 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3252

Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles

Surrey were in the Minor Counties Championship then? That is a bit surprising. Is this the era when the Minor Counties was stronger? I will have to try and contact Gavin Wall and see if he has that game! Surrey were simply not so strong in the 1980s and 1990s; they only started to emerge from 2006 ...
by Jonathan Rogers
Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:13 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2428

Re: accepting gambits

"Whether this is a gambit or an opening line is something of a question. The latter is perhaps more accurate, but credit to anyone who can articulate the distinction .." I didn't express that very well: obviously gambits are subsets of opening lines rather than to be distinguished from them. I'll tr...
by Jonathan Rogers
Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2428

Re: accepting gambits

Just remembered a very long line in the Open Lopez, where Black has connected pawns for the piece. I think it featured in a well known Timman v Smyslov game - no idea whether it is still a contested line. Any chance of posting the moves of that line (and the game)? It's Timman v Smyslov, Bad Lauter...
by Jonathan Rogers
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:59 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2428

Re: accepting gambits

Just remembered a very long line in the Open Lopez, where Black has connected pawns for the piece. I think it featured in a well known Timman v Smyslov game - no idea whether it is still a contested line.
by Jonathan Rogers
Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:54 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: accepting gambits
Replies: 35
Views: 2428

Re: accepting gambits

On theoretical piece sac lines - these are interesting, and, I would guess, considerably rarer then exchange sacs. Off the top of my head, I wonder whether they fall into two main groups - huge attacks sacrifices (or not so huge) as in so many 1 e4 e5 games, and connected pawns sacrifices. Of the la...
by Jonathan Rogers
Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:09 pm
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: British Rapidplay 2024
Replies: 28
Views: 3700

Re: British Rapidplay 2024

Round 11 on 2024/03/03 at 15:00 Bo. No. Name Rtg Pts. Result Pts. Name Rtg No. 1 2 IM Han, Yichen 2563 8 8½ GM Gormally, Daniel W 2578 1 2 16 IM Willow, Jonah B 2300 8 8 IM Royal, Shreyas 2331 14 3 64 WIM Kanyamarala, Trisha 2073 8 8 FM Eckersley-Waites, Tom 2264 21 4 55 Repasi, Zoltan 2097 7½ 7½ G...
by Jonathan Rogers
Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Was there anything by Mestel? If not, there should be! Stean-Mestel, Llanelli 1974, where the two of them punched each other to a standstill (Game 53); van der Sterren-Mestel, World Junior Championship 1975, where he briefly revived the Philidor Counter-Gambit to good effect; Mestel-Renman Valletta...
by Jonathan Rogers
Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:32 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Are we allowed near-misses? The game Short nearly won against Kasparov in the 1993 match, and then lost on time (I think?), that was exciting. If he had found the right finish, would that have been one for the ages? Can anyone post that (or a link to it)? The loss on time was in game one but there ...
by Jonathan Rogers
Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

Perhaps someone should mention that Short himself hates all the attention given to the Timman game. Not that this should deprive anyone from regarding it as their own favourite, but one might like to contemplate why. I should imagine that it was because the king march was not unprecedented, indeed S...
by Jonathan Rogers
Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:34 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

oh! Didn't realise it was "memorable" games. That certainly permits Gordon v Jones. Actually that changes a lot of things, surely? We could have awesome one-sided games such as Illescas v Sadler (QGA, mid 90s), Sadler v Hawkins (2013, 4NCL), Sadler v Rowson at the London Classic (when Sadler wins, h...
by Jonathan Rogers
Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Replies: 80
Views: 3866

Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)

An eclectic list (but how could it not be?). I have the impression that that the more recent games at least depend on their selection rather much on whether they were published in CHESS. Kazimzhdanov v Adams, Tripoli 2004 looks like a misprint, Adams suffered in all his black games and did not win o...