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Win for Gawain, draw for Nepo, so England get silver unless Grischuk somehow loses

Thomas Rendle wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 14, 2019 8:10 am

Cautiously optimistic as England are pressing on 1, 3 and 4 with Luke slightly worse on 2.

India doing quite well against Russia though at the moment, with Nepo a piece down for not much it seems.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 11, 2019 9:41 am

Possibly a played-my-preparation-in-the-wrong-order experience for Adly, here?

Plot twist. White forgot what pawns can do, apparently.

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Thu Jan 31, 2019 12:02 pm

This is reminiscent of the infamous Carlsen - Jones. Easy for the computer to say that White has nothing, but in the real world it isn't that simple.

Yes indeed, we can all be heroes with the computer in front of us.

Round 10, Howell is a piece up for apparently not much on move 12 as Black v Aronian. Very strange.

You are looking at the wrong Ugra I think, there is more than one. Khantiy-Mansiysk is 5 hours ahead of GMT, and they have indeed just started.

Just played through it; looks like a smooth performance Is there any analysis anywhere of the games? Not analysis as such, but after making the g5 break, it was interesting to see that Lagno's 12 consecutive rook moves (30-41) which seemed to disorientate the defence and make something out of not a...

The schedule is pretty brutal as well; Abdumalik has played 12 straight days I think, 20 games of chess altogether. The first rest day isn't until after the semi-finals. I find the knock-out format entertaining, but it must be really tough on the players. Compare and contrast with Carlsen-Caruana.

Carlsen's outright blundered

One wee nag. On the teams taking part description page. It's going to be amusing next summer watching all the tourists trying to find Hohenzollern Castle (Germany) on their Scottish Touring maps. There are more than a few original picture choices on that page; England's appears to be the roof of th...

Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 03, 2018 5:01 pm

I drew with someone with an ECF of 199 and a FIDE of 1870 last season. I'm still bitter...

Probably not as bitter as the someone with that rating.

Clive, I'll send you a private message. I would also endorse Julie's comments.

A couple of new players are wanted for The Argumentatives; we are a long established pub-based team playing in the Mid Sussex League (which actually covers pretty much all but the South West corner of the County). We play at a country pub in Staplefield, near Crawley. We have around 7-10 matches a y...

Aronian losing a crazy game must surely end his chances; also puts Caruana in the sole lead.

Perhaps it's too much Bermuda sunshine rather than living on another planet? Our own planet contains major population centres where for four months of the year there is not a single day when the weather is as clement as it is likely to be here tomorrow. Chess is somehow played, and some of them eve...