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- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3477
Re: Counties and clubs
There is also the North Circular Chess League for teams near the A406. Yes. Interesting the way that one has evolved over the decades. When first started in the late fifties, it was pretty much a Middlesex affair, with clubs in Finchley, Southgate and Wood Green, among others. And Enfield was what ...
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 8:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2428
Re: accepting gambits
It also fails if there's too many in the section, so that you never get to play the guy who wins it half a point ahead of you. Cases in point: the Under-160s at Islington 1972, and LARA 1975, both won by players with clean scores in front of several on 5.5/6.
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:32 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5968
- Views: 737478
Re: Media comments on chess
Won't mean squat to Poots. Garry had better watch his back (and pour his own tea).
- Thu Mar 07, 2024 11:29 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2428
Re: accepting gambits
Back to pieces: there's the Vienna Variation in the Queen's Gambit, which if Black is feeling reckless can go: 1.d4 d5 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Bg5 Bb4+ 5.Nc3 dxc4 6.e4 c5 7.e5 cxd4 8.Qa4+ Nc6 9.O-O-O Bd7 10.Ne4 Be7 11.exf6 gxf6 12.Bh4 Rc8 13.Kb1 Na5 - but White should come out on top, I believe, if he f...
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 1:55 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)
I know, I know .... we can't keep amending the list to include all our personal favourites, but a game which includes what Emanuel Lasker himself called "one of the best (or deepest) sacrifices in the history of chess" deserves at least an honourable mention. Abrahams-Spencer (Liverpool, 1930): http...
- Mon Feb 26, 2024 10:28 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)
If we're taking literally the title of this thread, then nos 2 and 3 on Geoff's list are disqualified. William Evans (No 2) was Welsh by birth and upbringing, while McDonnell (No 3), as I've already remarked, was Irish.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:40 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess Education Society
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3833
Re: Chess Education Society
Thanks for clearing all that up, Simon. It looks as though the magazine would have closed anyway before much longer: the financial difficulties simply accelerated the process. How did your search go elsewhere? I've tried myself from time to time, but managed to turn up very little on-line. Similarly...
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4393
Re: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
I was about to nominate the well-known LaBourdonnais-McDonnell game (1834), with the Q-sac on move 13 .... until I remembered that McDonnell was Irish.
- Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Opponents who "helpfully" write their name on your scoresheet
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2109
Re: Opponents who "helpfully" write their name on your scoresheet
I've had it done to me a time or two, and went through a very brief phase of doing it myself, before deciding it was all rather daft. Mildly irritating, but not worth getting too worked up about or seeking penalties. (Are these fellows really "being helpful", though, or is it perhaps some atavistic ...
- Sun Feb 11, 2024 7:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Trading Places
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1022
Re: Trading Places
There'd be some who'd say the nine of diamonds. (Only kidding, Geoff.)
- Fri Feb 02, 2024 4:42 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Chris White
- Replies: 1
- Views: 725
Re: Chris White
Sorry to hear that. I remember Chris quite well (also his clubmates John(?) Murrell and Peter Harbott) from encountering Barking in the North Circular Chess League back in the 70s. Good players all, but rather disorganised at times when it came to getting their team to away matches. Chris was a dist...
- Fri Jan 26, 2024 9:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5968
- Views: 737478
Re: Media comments on chess
But following one of the links from the Wiki entry turns up a couple more of her pastimes: "writing comic verse and French polishing".Gerard Killoran wrote: ↑Fri Jan 26, 2024 6:00 pmNothing about chess here... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Kent
...or pig-breeding
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/23092161
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:58 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: ICL Pathway (Fujitsu) Curiosity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3044
Re: ICL Pathway (Fujitsu) Curiosity
How do we know the next miscarriage of justice is not already brewing or has happened? Of course it is/has. It's in the DNA of modern-day business culture and those who operate within it. No commitment to providing quality goods or services. Swan into a job, grab your bonuses, loot your expense acc...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 6:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Times cryptic chess clue
- Replies: 314
- Views: 44525
Re: Times cryptic chess clue
Oh, and what was the answer to the clue in Simon's Jan 4 post? I'd need crossers for that; I keep working out plausible answers, but they're all seven letters long. :x Hi John It was "stigmata". I've vowed to have a go at the Guardian one when I have a spare hour, but I do find switching setters di...
- Tue Jan 23, 2024 4:41 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Times cryptic chess clue
- Replies: 314
- Views: 44525
Re: Times cryptic chess clue
Finally got the blasted thing out, but it needed three sessions over two days, several look-ups to confirm tentative answers, and recourse to that Crosswordsolver site to nail 5d (I had one-third of it unaided, but the rest was beyond me). I share the view that "unique" is one adjective that should...