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This is terribly sad news. Tim was very helpful during a minor incident at a Congress, he smoothed it all over very calmly. I described him later to my wife (who wasn’t familiar with the term ‘arbiter’) as the Chess Policeman.

Thus he will be remembered by me.

Oh, hang on, I'm misreading. That's an ONLINE grading of H, I see that my OTB Standard Grade is K. I guess that makes more sense. Apologies for the noise

Category H: For OTB, players who inherited a rating on 1st July 2020, but who has less than 9 rated results in the 60 calendar months prior to 1st July 2020 and has not played since. Wondering why I've got an H rating, then. http://www.ecfrating.org.uk/v2/new/player.php?ECF_code=110382K I last play...

I played my first 'real' online tournament on Sunday (Witney Rapidplay: nicely organised, worked very well - thanks to all involved) and I was expecting all the points MJM to raise to be true, and they were. I miss the occasion, I miss the tactile nature of playing on a real board and so on. However...

The Checkmate TV Show thing is now on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Round-1/dp/B079165X12/ --- it's nothing special, soundtrack appears to be lacking somewhat. To quote my own review: "Having heard about this programme some time ago I was looking forward to it greatly. It was much more basi...

the top section will now be an Open section, rather than having a grading cap of 225. A slight shame really for Kidlington to abandon its unique status as the country's only under 225 tournament, but I suppose necessary when you wanted to make it part of a Oxfordshire Championship. I'd imagine the ...

https://twitter.com/checkmatetvshow tweets every few days saying the exact same thing: "Checkmate TV Show Season I is now in distribution with Optimum Television as soon as we have a date for broadcasting we will let you know" --- they've been tweeting that for a couple of months, I think.

The chess.com puzzle ratings are not _set_ anywhere, they drift up and down (in the same way as players grades) based on how well and how quickly people solve them. Don't know the exact means of calculation. I use chess.com on PC and smartphone: I *think* I've seen a similar thing to you too, for wh...

Stewart Reuben wrote:Herewith a teaser about CHECKMATE

https://vimeo.com/155639831

Do we know when the whole event is likely to be broadcast/available-for-download/whatever?

IM Jack Rudd wrote:Williams has beaten Korchnoi, which should give you a good route out.

Ah, brilliant. That gives me a Korchnoi Number of 3. He's beaten both Kasparov and Fischer, so that reduces both my Kasparov Number and Fischer Number to 4. Splendid, thanks Jack

Well the best I can do is a Fischer Number of 5 and a Kasparov Number of 5. You've no idea how much dredging of all scorebooks and of chessgames.com it took to come up with this... I beat Chris Briscoe (twice: North London Under-10 1981, London Juniors Under-16 1985; he got his revenge in 1987!) Chr...

I've just happened upon this thread. Although I've never managed above BCF/ECF 170 I'm sure I must be able to find suitable paths, because I played a lot of London Junior Chess Championships in the early 1980s and am fairly convinced I must have no more than a two step path to Michael Adams or Matth...

Crosstables for all sections available via https://kidlingtonchess.org.uk/kct2016/ ... osstables/

I agree that the caption would probably have been funnier if it _had_ translated as "Arguing with a grandmaster" or something less specific than "world champion".

We are dissecting the joke. It is now officially not funny any more.

"Marital row with the Chess World Champion" is the translation of the caption, I think.