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- Sun Mar 17, 2024 7:02 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The going rate
- Replies: 2
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The going rate
Apologies for asking but I have been abroad for 24 years but what is the going rate for tournaments in the UK these days? 1 day quickplay average price? 5-6 Round Weekend event average price? Major event (Hastings, British championships)? Abroad prices seem to have risen to 50-100 pounds for classic...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 7:03 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
We were certainly punching about our weight back then but we had strength and depth, although you could argue we weren't alone there.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
So England's his home now then. It's a shame we don't see him in the 4NCL.
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 5:26 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Does Glueck still play? Where is he now?
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Half the team played for Milton Keynes too.
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:10 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Caro Kann Breyer variation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 682
Re: Caro Kann Breyer variation
Is this about the French or the CK? I think the point is there are lines with ... c6 and ... d5 where black plays ... e6 which could equally arise via ... e6, ... d5 and ... c6. As someone who plays 1.Nf3 I sometimes get Breyer variation (or variationesque) positions via transposition. The honest a...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 6:02 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3477
Re: Counties and clubs
So you've got a league on the move? Where's it going to end up? I didn't know we had leagues based on roads but understandable given the time frames of evening league matches.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Nice little exchange sac by Andy at the end there. Does it spoil things slightly to point out that Andy Ledger was completely winning at the point he (unecessarily) sacrificed the exchange? I can't quite decipher the time control, but Glueck was the one in time trouble and maybe Andy tried to take ...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 9:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
34. Qf4 was a slip by white. Lost his advantage.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3477
Re: Counties and clubs
Thanet isn't part of England is it?
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3477
Re: Counties and clubs
They play in the same league?IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:59 pmBarnstaple to Plymouth will be hard to beat, but probably not impossible.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 8:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 3981
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Your opponent Milton was very strong when he was young, more so than his rating suggested. Eventually he was mostly rated around 180-185 when he left his teens.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 6:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3477
Re: Counties and clubs
Yes I would say so, my money is on Cornwall.