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Typical! I have been avoiding Hungarian tournaments because Hungary is on our government's unclean list. Then today I get this from GOV.UK: "The FCDO* has removed Hungary from the Global Travel Advisory exemption list, based on the current assessment of COVID-19 risks." Hungary seems ahead of most ...

Czech Airlines have just cancelled my flights for Pardubice for covid-19 reasons. (Chess) Life Not Returning To Normal. Are you able to go by train instead? I haven't specifically checked on this occasion, but the usual answer to that question is that it takes too long and is too expensive - a pity...

Official homepage - http://www.czechopen.net/ Chess-results link - https://chess-results.com/tnr530505.aspx?lan=1&art=0&turdet=YES &flag=NO Note that Tim is in the B-Open. Sowray & Wiley in the GM A-Open. I was wondering if the Jan Zelezny entered in the B section was the great javelin thrower of t...

This is very sad news. He was my son's physics teacher up until my son did his A levels last summer. I only knew him from parents' evenings and similar events. He once gave a talk at the school on the history of chess, as part of a series given by the teachers on topics of interest to them, to raise...

I'm sure being a team captain can't be good for your grade. I can think of two sorts of reason why it can have a adverse effect: (i) Distractions during your own game. For example, chasing up missing team members or trying to arrange substitutes once the match has started. Or interruptions at crucia...

Additionally they were selecting board numbers and using the metal detector wand before the game on those in that pairing. If there were any other checks being carried out, they weren't publicised. There were also random post-game metal detector checks (I waa subject to one), inluding the lesser se...

My time at the Festival is now over for this year. I'm too exhausted to consider any of the quick stuff this weekend. I would like to give a big thank you to the organisers and arbiting team who performed professionally and competently throughout. When problems did arise, they appeared to deal with ...

The last year without registration, we had 20 defaults in Round 1. So we had to do something! Last year in the U1600 Weekender (for which no registration was required) in the first round on the Friday night over a quarter of all the games were shown as defaulted - and this figure will exclude succe...

Howard Berlin who is the Conservative candidate for Ilford North plays for Ilford Chess Club. I played him once in a league match a few years ago, but no nothing much about him.

Might you be able to report back, post event, Nigel, possibly with some pictures? It was again a hugely enjoyable event, won by the German GM Michael Prusikin with an impressive 10/11. My modest 4 points was about in line with rating expectations, given that nearly a third of participants were rate...

The Chess Train 2019 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Transport Vladimír Kremlík ... Surely the surname/family name is misspelt? Kremlik seems to have got himself in big political trouble by attending our departure today. He turned up early (before 9am) & seemed to have fun trolling th...

We set off again tomorrow morning. Numbers seem to be a bit down this year, which I hope doesn't jeopardise its contiuance, given there were some doubts about its future last year which thankfully appear to have been resolved.

The last year without registration, we had 20 defaults in Round 1. So we had to do something! Last year in the U1600 Weekender (for which no registration was required) in the first round on the Friday night over a quarter of all the games were shown as defaulted - and this figure will exclude succe...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:26 pm

Nepo held with White by Predke. I was intrigued on looking up the latter to see he was from Dimitrovgrad - how many Russian cities named after Communist leaders in the Soviet period have retained those names in the modern era? (Tolyatti is another one, I note.)

Kaliningrad is another.

But the rules on the Grand Prix web page say default wins are not counted, so the 20th 4NCL would only score 87 +4 = 91, I think.