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Bob Clark

Manx Liberty v Cheddleton in Round 1, is that right?

Bob Clark

my memory might be deceiving me, but I wonder whether Small and Arkell played in the British in the early to mid 1980s, Small winning with f6-f7 discovered check? I don’t know if the game was in the British, but it was published in Chess with some amusing annotations by Small. He was also an active...

Bob Clark

The fifth CSC Merseyside Primary School Chess Tournament takes place on June 27th 2019.
Venue is again the splendid surroundings of St Georges Hall.
This event is open to primary schools in Merseyside.
Please message me for more info.
Bob Clark (CSC Coordinator Merseyside)

Bob Clark

Bob Clark wrote: ↑
Mon Jun 13, 2016 9:22 am
The second CSC Merseyside Primary School Chess Tournament takes place on June 27th.
Venue is again the splendid surroundings of St Georges Hall.
This event is open to primary schools in Merseyside.
We have over 400 children confirmed for this years event, but we have room for a few more.

Bob Clark

I also think the ECF board should be independent of CSC. No idea why you think it isn’t, but I’m guessing that you have very little idea of how CSC works! Agree with that Roger I'll be explaining to the Gold reps another reason to not vote for Tim That’s a shame Mick, I feel I should contact them t...

Bob Clark

Congratulations to Bradford, but farcical that there promotion place should be decided by winning a match against their B team.
Obviously all the discussion earlier in the thread regarding pairings has failed to provide a sensible framework for the league.

Bob Clark

George Hadfield mentioned above worked at the Vauxhall Motors plant in Ellesmere Port.
He also played for their chess team for many years in the local leagues prior to his death in the late eighties / early nineties.

Bob Clark

Matt Mackenzie wrote:Giri looks set to make it 7 out of 7, much to Topalov's relief no doubt

Meanwhile, it looks like Naka's "unsound" sacrifice may have worked over the board......

Why do you think it was unsound, the view in the commentary room was that Nf5 was a great move.

Bob Clark

Excellent proposal long overdue.

Bob Clark

Thanks Mike
Sorry I wasn't clear, I was trying to find the actual performance results.

Bob Clark

Thanks Mike.

Apologies is this is available somewhere, but how was the performance rating prize in the Open calculated?

Bob Clark

The second CSC Merseyside Primary School Chess Tournament takes place on June 27th. Venue is again the splendid surroundings of St Georges Hall. This event is open to primary schools in Merseyside. We have over 400 children confirmed for this years event, but we have room for a few more. For more in...

Bob Clark

David Robertson wrote:
@ Bob Clark: I don't think so

Well I think you are going to struggle to prove its a draw after 23 fxg4.
Having just checked it on Shredder it seems that white is definitely winning!

Bob Clark

After the move 18... Bc5 not sure what's happening... What's happening is that Hou Yifan took a hefty blow to the skull. This clearly hadn't featured in her prep. Indeed, not all engines see the idea, I understand. She spent nearely 40 minutes wondering if she wasn't in fact lost on the spot with 1...

Bob Clark

Bob - I think you are right, and I wrote somewhere else that Robert won. My bad memory. Were you there? The simul was actually played sometime in 1989. Unfortunately the Cheshire & North Wales records covering that era have been lost. I had mis-remembered that Kasparov lost only to Dave Tebb, but a...

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