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Came across this today - which is so brazen I wonder whether it is just a joke or (maybe even a trap)!

https://talismanzero.com/talisman.html

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 4:11 pm

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 10, 2021 3:52 pm

Its officially over.

Biggest massacre since 1984

1993 ?

In game 4 Ravi uses a line of the French I never knew existed...though Bacrot clearly prepared. 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.Bg5 h6!? Engine doesn't approve of 10...Nc6 as white can retreat the bishop with 11.Bb3 and after 11...Bxc3 take back with the pawn. So looks like advantage Bacrot but game is ...

He defended the 2v1 rook endgame flawlessly which was quite impressive as at several moments the drawing margin was very tight. I've lost at least one similar endgame with 30 second increment - defending on 10 seconds is some solid stuff! It looks like white has made tremendous progress bringing the...

Ravi brings it home in the first tiebreaker. Great game to follow. At least 2 instructive moments for me: 24.Nb1 is a really nice re-routing of the knight. On a3 it blockades the a4 pawn whilst attacking b5. And also in the rook endgame - Ravi is lots of pawns up, but he doesn't mind giving a bunch ...

I think the editorial style and bombast surrounding chessbase's claims isn't going to do them any favours in the long term. From what I can gather Fat Fritz is based on an amalgamation of stockfish search + lc0 evaluation algorithms (as is the latest version of stockfish as per the lichess article) ...

This is the time control we use for the UKCC Terafinal. 3 rounds on a saturday and 3 on a sunday beginning at 10am (930 on sunday) with 3 hour intervals between round start times. It seems a decent compromise of using increments (so avoiding 10.2 disputes) but not having the danger of games drifting...

Round 5 Report Board 1 (Kanwal Bhatia – Naoi Wei) transitioned to a rook endgame which should have been easily holdable for black but Naomi failed to spot the most decisive equalizing line. After this white was pressing resulting in a 3 v 1 on the kingside (though with doubled isolated f-pawns). 1r...

Kanwal looks like she is winning - Naomi missed some chances earlier.

Sarah also looks to be winning her rook endgame - got some good training material for rook endgames with this round...

Going into the final round 7 players could still win the title.

Three players on 3.5:
Kanwal Bhatia
Naomi Wei
Ingrid Lauterbach

Four players on 3:
Anum Sheikh
Sarah Longson
Sheila Jackson
Nadia Jaufarally

Round 4 At the start of the round we have the two players on 3/3/ playing on board 1, two players on 2.5 on board 2, 2.5 v 2 on board 3...and another 7 players on 2. Probably the winner will come from one of the top 2 boards but the players starting the round on 2 still have a chance if they win. On...

One line that got me thinking was 13...f5 14. Bd3 e4 15. Ngxe4 fxe4 15. Qxe4 Bf5 16. Qxf5 Rxf5 17. Bxf5. Well 14.Bd3 would be quite difficult to make psychologically having played 13.Be4 ! Objectively though it isn't very strong either- in the line you give white gets a rook and 3 pawns for queen b...

the game developed quietly and was generally balanced except for an interesting moment in the endgame where it seems Natasha missed a big chance with 32…d3 33.Kf1 Kf6 The bishop is occupying that square. Should it be e6? Sorry - what I should have wrote was "it seems Natasha missed a big chance aft...

Round 3 2 more draws this round – perhaps tiredness setting in (!). At the start of the round we had five players on 100% and at the end just two: the experienced Ingrid Lauterbach and the 2017 UKCC Girls Champion Naomi Wei. Board one saw a wild battle between Ingrid and Sheila with the evaluation ...

Is the second one 13......f5!? Yes - the game continued 13...f5 14.Nxf5 Bxf5 15.Bxf5 Nxc2+ 16.Bxc2 Rxf3 17.gxf3. Material is level but black has a clear advantage as white will find it difficult to develop properly and find a safe haven forher queen. However, with stubborn defence the game isn't ov...