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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:48 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL Time control
- Replies: 10
- Views: 413
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...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 4:33 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL Time control
- Replies: 10
- Views: 413
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...
- Sun Mar 10, 2024 5:03 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3323
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3323
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 ...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 3:13 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2499
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...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2499
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...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2499
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.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2499
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...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 9:09 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: British Rapidplay 2024
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3749
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...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 7:45 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
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...
- Wed Feb 28, 2024 3:32 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
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 ...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 11:45 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
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...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 5:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
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...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 4:58 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 3873
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...