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Sorry to hear this. He was one of the tournament stalwarts that I used to often get paired against as a junior in the seemingly endless series of Nuneaton and Leamington Rapidplays in the early or mid 90’s. Tough player and a good sport whatever the result - although his experience usually told.

Seen it before. Also seen someone fall for it with 4.a3 g6 5.Bc4 Nxe4?? etc.

I've got the app on my PC via the free Bluestacks Android Emulator. Works great.

lol

Pretty sure Geoff was just trying to be funny. It's got nothing to do with Ramsay or cooking. I've just watched the first episode. Was all right but I wouldn't watch it again. There's a bit about it on Chessbase news.

Thank you Justin.

Does anyone know what time the tiebreaks start on Wednesday? I assume it's the same time but not sure.

Apologies if this has already been asked...

I wouldn't be winning every game against players of my own standard, let alone anyone in the world (Carlsen!). It's not a good move but it's not going to make that much difference.

Adams win
Howell win
Tan win
Pert win

Round 5

1.Draw
2.Draw
3.Draw
4.White win

As far as pursuing any claim after the game it seems like logically the result should stand.

I played the Kasparov checkmate about a week ago and yes it was a total joke even on the hardest setting. I knew it probably wasn't going to be great when I saw it was registered year 2001 or something. Bizarrely, I then changed planes at Muscat and the next plane, despite being the same airline had...

I've no idea why it's not called rooking but as far as I was aware the '0's represent the number of empty spaces between the king and rook, two and three for kingside and queenside respectively.

Not much danger of more than a draw. I'd still be a little concerned as Black.

That's pretty surprising. I lost a game to Tim Spanton when I was in my teens with this theme, colours reversed in a Botvinnik English. I've since seen the idea countless times, although White can still grovel on with 0-0.