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- Thu Jan 11, 2024 4:14 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Premier League Fantasy Football 2023-24
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3587
Re: Premier League Fantasy Football 2023-24
I have missed all this - I haven't read the Not Chess! thread before. Am I too late to join this league? I've been in the competition since the start for the past three seasons. If I joined, would my current score count or would have to start from scratch?!
- Thu Oct 05, 2023 7:06 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Incorrect chess board rotation
- Replies: 21
- Views: 2395
Incorrect chess board rotation
I have a question for Kevin Thurlow or any other arbiters out there. Last night I played a club championship game and opened 1.e4 to which my opponent replied 1...d6. He then said 'Oh, can we re-start the game?' More than a little surprised, I declined. He then said, 'But the board's the wrong way r...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:20 am
- Forum: Congress Results
- Topic: Hampshire Congress November 2019
- Replies: 10
- Views: 3983
Re: Hampshire Congress November 2019
Ha ha! I must admit I was surprised to be confronted with analogue clocks when I played the Hampshire Congress last year. One wonders how many other congresses continue to use them, if any. As for Fischer time, we have used it for several years at the Thanet Congress as you know, Kevin, with few pro...
- Fri Nov 08, 2019 9:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Chess and cricket
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5281
Re: Chess and cricket
Keith B Richardson was Englands first Grandmaster. He got his title for ccorrespondance chess. He also played for England at Cricket playing in Englands under 19 team. I believe that he also played First team county cricket. I am not sure which county he played for but he was from Nottinghamshire. ...
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 1:35 pm
- Forum: Congress Results
- Topic: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3149
Re: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
Thank you, John. I'm glad you enjoyed the congress. There will be games from all the sections published on the Broadstairs site in due course. I have the Challengers and Minor already in hand. I emailed Kevin as he collates all the Open games and once I get those there should be a couple I can add. ...
- Thu Aug 22, 2019 10:53 am
- Forum: Congress Results
- Topic: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3149
50th Thanet Chess Congress
The Open was won by IM Alan Merry. Full results: OPEN: http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/TournamentPage?Tournament=f10b717a-04c9-4e8d-a54f-14a4bd60b92d CHALLENGERS: http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/TournamentPage?Tournament=88b49f25-2554-4adc-9397-26cf5ed2324c MAJOR: http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/Tournamen...
- Fri Jul 26, 2019 8:50 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2041
Re: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
The 50th Thanet Chess Congress is only three weeks away. Free entry for GMs and IMs and only £5 for U16s. There are unique prizes for the winners of each section unavailable at any other congress in addition to over £2300 in prize money. So far, five of the original 1970 entrants have signed up to p...
- Thu May 09, 2019 8:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: What if a player falls ill....
- Replies: 32
- Views: 5769
What if a player falls ill....
At a recent league match a player became ill and an ambulance was called. He clearly could not continue his game and offered his opponent a draw which was accepted. The game was even so the offer was quite fair anyway and it had no bearing on the match result. However, is there a ruling on this? It ...
- Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:08 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2041
Re: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
The website for the 50th Thanet Chess Congress is now live. Go to www.thanetchesscongress.co.uk for further information including details of the special trophies to be won (and kept) by the winners of the five sections. The SCCU and Kent Championship titles are also available for those who qualify. ...
- Fri Feb 22, 2019 3:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5968
- Views: 737411
Re: Media comments on chess
I think you’ll find the apparent rook reference in the Skipton Building Society logo is meant to be Skipton Castle. On a separate note, a recent episode of Pointess featured a set of pictures of board games. If you don’t know the format - although I suspect many chess players watch the programme - ‘...
- Mon Feb 11, 2019 3:11 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Eastbourne, British Championships 1990
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2272
Re: Eastbourne, British Championships 1990
I didn't remember the name of the building but a few things about the 1990 Championships spring to mind. I had no idea about the death of Ian Gow as it must have taken place in the morning as I was driving down and I had not had the radio on. The first I heard of it was at the opening ceremony when ...
- Wed Jan 23, 2019 8:35 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Incremental controls - the `unlimited` game.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4176
Re: Incremental controls - the `unlimited` game.
It is used in some congresses as we have done at Thanet for past three or four years with few problems as far as I am aware although Kevin can confirm. If there were, I’m sure we’d scrap it. Of course, it may be different where you have three games in one day. I think we use 90 mins + 30 secs. I do ...
- Wed Jan 02, 2019 6:30 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 50th Thanet Chess Congress
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2041
50th Thanet Chess Congress
The 50th Thanet Chess Congress will take place from Friday August 16 to Sunday August 18 2019. Details will be available on the website www.thanetchesscongress.co.uk once it is up and running which will probably be some time in March. As it is the 50th congress, there will be a few special prizes an...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 8:29 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Surrey Chess Congress October 26-28
- Replies: 36
- Views: 6284
Re: Surrey Chess Congress October 26-28
EXCEPT it clashes with Guernsey Scarborough as well. http://www.scarboroughchesscongress.org.uk/ Scarborough is offering £6000 in prize money, five sections and a £500 first prize in each. It may be a long way north for some people but not surprisingly it also has over two hundred entries with two ...
- Wed Oct 10, 2018 3:57 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Batumi Olympiad
- Replies: 983
- Views: 67780
Re: Batumi Olympiad
Ummm... 8 posts up? (9 now). Indeed. And the original? Searching for the filename revealed that it came (not surprisingly) from Twitter. It was re-tweeted by the ECU (European Chess Union) from the Batumi Chess 2018 account, see here . That tweet gives a link to a high-resolution version, which I p...