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Herts are playing a formal-ish 45+15 league on lichess - round 2 was last Tuesday.

It’s been done - a couple of years ago - by the Sesse supercomputer

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Sesse analysis spreadsheet

An idea that's well worth considering against the Winawer is 4. exd5. A kind of delayed Exchange. I've never played it. Why, as I was recommending the Exchange upthread? Because, in playing 3.Nc3, I need to be prepared for ...Nf6 and indeed dxe4, as well as the Winawer. And that's too much work. I’...

Yes - me too. And this puzzle was more "approachable" than some of the others. Indeed - I find that if their video is 20 minutes or less I can usually solve the puzzle (thought not in 20 minutes!) - if it’s more than half an hour there’s usually no chance, though I have managed a couple of the hard...

Don’t know if anyone else has watched the “Cracking the Cryptic” videos during lockdown - it’s a couple of crossword and Sudoku experts solving puzzles, I find it (surprisingly?) watchable. Their latest is entitled “The puzzle that Carlsen and Nakamura haven’t solved (yet)” ( link ) and it’s a Sudok...

My club (Letchworth and Hitchin) have a member called Jon P Barnes. 20 miles away, playing in the same league, St Albans have Jon A Barnes - they have played each other at least once that I’m aware of, probably more. And they’re both currently graded 147!

With the event having just ended, I'd like to thank the organising team from Hull for all their hard work. Having organised one or two [smaller] events myself, I can testify to the considerable amount of time and effort involved. It has been really appreciated. Seconded, I really enjoyed the tourna...

Any chance of anybody explaining sigma to the non-scientists Don’t know if I’m going to help or not but I’ll give it a go. As Jack mentioned, sigma refers to the standard deviation - this is basically just a measure of how much a given quantity varies from the average. Taking male height as an exam...

There’s an article (in Swedish) here

Appreciate it’s not exactly the main story right now but a few people have asked me why I’ve still got Nepo as a warm favourite even though MVL beat him in their individual game so wins the first tiebreak. The main difference is that Nepo has 4 Whites to come where MVL has 4 Blacks - the model makes...

I'm by no means a CQL expert, but I have managed to run a search using CQL and a decent-sized database, looking for sequences with a piece other than the king of length 10+ starting before move 10 Most of them are pretty dull multiple repetitions. Of the ones that aren't, here's the best I found: 11...

The topic title reminds me of the old gag, usually told at the expense of actuaries / accountants:

Q: How do you tell the difference between an introvert and an extrovert chess player?

A: The extrovert looks at your shoes when he’s talking to you.

O.G. Urcan wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 23, 2019 5:54 am

Another page about Raymond Keene is in the list of "Biographies" at the website of The Mother & Child Foundation: http://www.themotherandchildfoundation. ... iographies

There’s another on Outside In Pathways:
http://outsideinpathways.org/our-board/

"Hamburg Grand Prix organisation recipe from @theworldchess: choose the most expensive and nice hotel and the most cheap and unsuitable playing venue. WorldChess making friends with their response ... (“Sorry you lost bro.”) And Nepo hitting back ... (“Fortunately, I’m not your bro, Mr. Golden Stan...

Alex Holowczak wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2019 7:11 pm

He was supposed to be Black, by my reading of the regulations.

Yes, my reading was that he accepts that the colour is correct - his issue seems to be that he asked as he wasn’t sure, but was given the wrong information.