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Thanks David ( and Roger). On , Surrey born, Napier Wiki says "Napier called a game he lost to reigning World Champion Emanuel Lasker at Cambridge Springs 1904 the best of his career. The game showed great tactical skill by both players. Napier was particularly impressed by how Lasker kept his compo...

Capablanca v Yates, Barcelona 1929, is the only loss included the collection of Yates' best games. The much maligned Reinfeld described this, inclusion of a loss in a best games collection, as an unusual example. I guess such games are of exceptionally high quality. Hence are their other such exampl...

"Bill", W.T.Tutte of Bletchley Park and University of Ontario, the great graph theorist and code-braker, gives Bletchley Park at least 2.

Historically has any other organisation done better?

Maybe a novel , "Chariots Of Fire" image might help to get support via spectator interest: team blitz (or rapid) with an average grade constraint??

What’s wrong with just using game points? Richard I agree: simple widely understood systems have much to commend them. If complex tie-breaks are really needed for the OLympiad then I think screens in the playing hall should show the LIVE position. Of course some simple projection method with robust...

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Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:51 am

I find myself somehow supporting China v USA. Do others feel the same way?

I don't.

Doubtless the Chinese have the more effective President but Wesley So ( and NiC) produced the best 1 b3 video ever!

How are ENGLAND TIGERS doing against RUSSIA HEFFALUMPS?

Nick are you sure about Israel? For me and i guess many other ECF members attempts to expel israel, contrasted with title issues, crosses a redline worthy of ECF abstention in a second ballot. (For the avoidance of doubt i very much hope the Israeli voters change their government sometime very soon.)

Supporting a "slate" that becomes wickeder and wickeder is a bad thing! Does anyone agree? Yes, very much Mick, since Ian won't tell me, perhaps you will. What are you agreeing with? Which campaign do you believe is getting wickeder and wickeder? Both, perhaps? I'm asking because I don't know. Nick...

I was thinking of a scenario in which nigel was eliminated in the first round.

Maybe the ECF should then try(!) to extract a "price" for voting for Malcolm's slate in a second round :such as a review of K=40 for juniors or even a more radical rating review (for juniors)??

Do they actually need to decide? Yes, they certainly do. Abstaining from the main event, either by actually doing so or by voting for Short in the second round, is one of three options. Nick,maybe I disagree. The ECF may have a reputational risk , with among others potential chess sponsors. Support...

Does anyone have , even a gossip informed view, about who is most likely to win, candidates and inner circles excepted?

I am going to a conference next week and would rather like to rant, in the social corridors, about Putin soft power!

Glenn Flear's , "definitive guide to the endgames that really matter" , Everyman 2007 defines a NQE, not quite an ending, as " one player has two pieces and the other has two pieces or less". It is a classic chess reference book and an enjoyable read/browse for sub- 180 players (with a powerful engi...

Martin Benjamin

Great news that Kevin has not lost so far!?

As someone who sometimes makes notation errors, I grew up with English Descriptive, I think correct lettering is a good thing.