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Kevin

i guess more checks and balances on, possible abuses, of ( Presidential) power as you suggest would be a good thing!

D'0h!

Sorry Gavin Hughes, I thought Nick started it!?

I more or less agree, but there are exceptions. It seems Lasker didn't even learn to play until he was 11 years old! ... Speelman and Nunn hit the top 100 at 23/4 and went on to spend time at the highest level. Nick At the risk of being , off your topic, great as Mickey and Jon Speelman are and hav...

Sorry for the discord surrounding a possible Russian cunning plan : doubtless ours predate the Revolution!

"It's all a very odd state of affairs. Why does Dvorkovich bother if he's not confident of winning? That is, why would the Russians put so much political capital at risk? Better surely to let Kirsan take the hit if Makropoulos is indeed 'past the post', as his mouthy outriders claim." Maybe this is ...

Minor Surrey 9 Lincolnshire 7 I'm home and my individual trophy already has pride of place in the display cabinet. Perhaps people with loads of these things get blasé about them, but I'm thrilled with mine. Thanks to Surrey, the ECF and everyone involved. Congratulations Nick! Surrey isn't really a...

BBC commentary on Sweden v Switzerland before game (not verbatim)

It will be like a chess game... Is that your way of saying it will be drab? (Gary L) ... Yes

After Malcolm Pein's excellent piece in Chess, I think the ECF should:

(i) most importantly, somehow welcome Russia withdrawing support from Kirsan, long overdue

(ii) indicate that the ECF will probably support a loser.

Maybe generations of English Heffalumpish- chess players will be inspired by the English blunder free football performance against Belgium on Thursday??

If Tigers try to maximise the probability of winning as in Simon Webb's popular classic Chess for Tigers then I guess it is natural to assume Heffalumps try to maximise the probability of not losing. Chess for Tigers and Your Opponent is Overrated by J Schuyler, Everyman,2016 include useful guidance...

Tim Harding wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 15, 2018 4:35 pm

David Robertson wrote: ↑

Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:20 pm

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And if, as Spraggett alludes, there were to be a stitch-up between the Russians and Makro - putting the band back together again - where would that leave Malcolm Pein and his ambitions for 2022? Answers in a single word, frankly

Toast ?

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The excellent "New in Chess" , 2018 4, gives Nigel Short two pages on "Why am I running for FIDE President" which concludes with " federations can choose either 1) Kirsan-the man who has brought FIDE to the brink of oblivion 2} Makro-the Kirsan continuity candidate 3)me". Am I alone in thinking the ...

FIDE have a regulation that, if two countries are at war with each other, yet are playing in the same event, then they are allowed to refuse to be paired together. Thus presumably, during the Falklands crisis, Argentine and UK teams did not have to play against each other. The problem regarding Isr...

I think ,after tickets are announced, the ECF Board should at least consult its members possibly through the Bronze, Silver, Gold and Platinum representatives.

Does anyone believe that there is a non-zero probability that White Rose 2 will choose to play in Division 3 SOUTH rather than Division 3 North?