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I've just read that Igor Rausis has been caught red handed with a phone. I thought he had just been mopping up much weaker players in tournaments, but i guess that may have just helped him cover up how he was doing it as people would expect a stronger player to outplay lower graded players. Is this...

I've just read that Igor Rausis has been caught red handed with a phone. I thought he had just been mopping up much weaker players in tournaments, but i guess that may have just helped him cover up how he was doing it as people would expect a stronger player to outplay lower graded players. Is this ...

On the appearance fees breakdown, I wasn't aware that Malcolm Pein had said: The effect of the resolution, if passed, would probably lead to England fielding an open team of 1 grandmaster and four young amateur international masters. I am not sure if I mentioned it when it was first brought up, but...

Nimzowitsch getting a right pasting from Aronian and Vallejo Pons. By coincidence, either the same day as these comments, or the day before, i followed a link on another site that took me to Spraggett's old website to look at book reviews and the page i started on was an explanation by him as to wh...

So loses and ends his unbeaten streak at 45 one short of Fisher's record Nakamura wins a 5th championship Amazing performance from Yu; gain of 96 rating points according to Chess Mind ; as she's already a WGM, I assume IM is the next target I think i read that she has the norms already so is presum...

I was listening to the perpetual podcast with Matthew Sadler and Natasha Regan as guests which included a discussion about Alpha Zero. It was interesting to hear that AZ wasnt programmed with a numerical value for the pieces, raising the question as to whether or how that affected the way it played ...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:17 pm

Mark Ashley wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 05, 2018 6:03 pm

Just saw on Twitter that Alexander Arnold Trent, a young promising right back for Liverpool

You may mean Trent Alexander-Arnold

hahha yes, i always make that mistake, thanks for picking me up on it.

Just saw on Twitter that Alexander Arnold Trent, a young promising right back for Liverpool is a keen chess player and the Daily Mail have interviewed him. He's due to play Magnus Carlsen next week and is being mentored by Shreyas Royal and Kyan Bui! https://twitter.com/TarjeiJS/status/1048203873603...

David Llada just posted the following tweet, which i thought was pretty funny take on the current Nike campaign. Unfortunately I dont know how to post it.

https://twitter.com/davidllada/status/1 ... 6849967116

I would also imagine that there is a difference in the space taken up by competitors, and the audience - who when attending the darts are likely to be spending big on beer and sundries...not quite the same at the chess i would have thought which prefers a quieter spectator.

Steven DuCharme wrote: ↑

Sat May 26, 2018 11:24 pm

UPDATE TIME! Forget my previous post. After your first year in BCF your subsequent yearly cost would be reduced by a percentage equal to FIDE rating/100 rounded up or down to a whole number. Cost reduction could also include games played or be based on games played alone.

Sounds complicated.

I was there mid 90's and helped run the club. I dont recall anyone named Mike being involved then (or just before i arrived). While i was there i did notice some old match scores in the club's locker that might have helped you identify the name you are looking for, although as that was 20 years ago,...

'That, of course, is only an opinion, as Bezgodov readily admits, and you can agree or disagree with it all you want.' How on earth can anyone justify purchasing a book when its author says things like that? I'm unclear from the review whether the latter part was a comment from the author, or simpl...

There was a related incident in the 1991 Masters Final. Mike Hallett was 7-0 and 8-2 up against Stephen Hendry, and needed pink and black to win 9-2. He missed the pink, and from there contrived to lose 9-8. Hallett's mood presumably didn't improve when he returned home to find his home had been bu...

lol