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by Geoff Chandler
Sat Aug 08, 2026 10:29 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: 2026 British Chess Championships
Replies: 522
Views: 55802

Re: 2026 British Chess Championships

... up, would have liked a longer lay in but my house is a mad house on a Saturday morning. Your list looks exact. I did add the games from this event, I took them from chessgames.com ... they way I did it, Mickey with white, black, then wins, draws etc so those 3 games times twice =6 which ...
by GrahamStuart
Thu Mar 12, 2026 1:46 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: 1956
Replies: 15
Views: 4058

Re: 1956

... for Charles Henry I believe. He played in the Stevenson Memorial at Bognor in 1959. He was ... wins-2025-charles-henshaw-shield/ He played for ... Conservative club before moving to Chineham House. This venue was very Spartan. However things ...
by David Gilbert
Sun Jun 22, 2025 1:15 am
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: 4th SCCU/London Club Championships
Replies: 5
Views: 4598

Re: 4th SCCU/London Club Championships

... Correspondent It's all over for another year. The 4th SCCU/London Club Championships took place ... Counties had entered and we had had a full-house since mid-April. It had to be, for the 4th ... year, returned to take it again, scoring five wins and a draw. On their victorious run they took ...
by David Gilbert
Sat Jan 27, 2024 12:08 am
Forum: County Championships
Topic: Home Advantage
Replies: 9
Views: 8144

Home Advantage

Another round of SCCU County matches tomorrow. The Kent 2050s and 1650s travel to Childs Hill to ... Middlesex, while Essex host Surrey at Wanstead House in the same sections. So far this season things ... drawn (seems a lot?) and only 7 have been away wins. Is that proportionally the same in other ...
by James Plaskett
Tue Dec 20, 2022 11:53 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud
Replies: 264
Views: 82051

Re: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud

The only point of Bad Show was to counter every point raised ... now pay off his 50K credit card debts and also buy a house cash. So he gets swept along to continue repeating ... do any such thing themselves. 2) Every player who wins Fastest Finger First anywhere should be taken aside ...
by Matt Mackenzie
Thu Apr 21, 2022 12:16 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Britbase Updates
Replies: 660
Views: 183250

Re: Britbase Updates

Yes, 25 Nd7+ in the final position "wins the house" as they say.
by Xavier White
Sun Mar 20, 2022 7:45 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bob Wade memorial portrait at National Chess Library. (corrected)
Replies: 5
Views: 1430

Bob Wade memorial portrait at National Chess Library. (corrected)

... (91cm X 35cm) I am very pleased to announce the donation of my Robert Walks Through Water (3,4) ... I understand. An old man used to pass my house, early about 7 am, most days. Cap and flaps ... played all three of us at the same time, two wins & a draw to Bob. More recently, another friend, ...
by Xavier White
Fri Mar 11, 2022 10:23 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Bob Wade memorial portrait at National Chess Library.
Replies: 8
Views: 1861

Bob Wade memorial portrait at National Chess Library.

... 2010, 91cm X 35cm I am very please to announce the donation of my Robert Walks Through Water (3,4) ... cold war period. An old man used to pass my house, early about 7 am, most days. Cap and flaps ... played all three of us at the same time, two wins & a draw to Bob. When Bob died in 2008 and ...
by John Saunders
Sun Feb 27, 2022 8:10 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Galvenius-Stone, Oxfordshire vs Middlesex, 1952
Replies: 2
Views: 1023

Galvenius-Stone, Oxfordshire vs Middlesex, 1952

... of CHESS and came across Yanofsky's article on the position for adjudication from Galvenius-Stone, ... ({If} 1... Kxg5 {then} 2. Ra5+ Kh4 3. Rb5 {wins.}) 2. Kc3 Rb6 3. Ra4+ Kxh3 4. Rb4 Rxb7 5. Rxb7 ... to deflect attention by the stuff about the House of Lords. However at that time in appeals ...
by Roger de Coverly
Fri Jul 16, 2021 12:32 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Simon P. Finn ( 1958 - 2021)
Replies: 6
Views: 1945

Re: Simon P. Finn ( 1958 - 2021)

... died a few days ago, aged 63. To illustrate the point that he was a strong player, In 2014, ... High Wycombe Open"] [Site "Uplands House, High Wycombe"] [Date "2013.10.12"] [Round ... have played 8 times, the first in 1976. Four wins to Simon, three to me, and one draw, although ...
by soheil_hooshdaran
Sun Aug 12, 2018 12:26 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: The English Language
Replies: 3459
Views: 336561

Re: The English Language

Ian Thompson wrote:
Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:48 am
soheil_hooshdaran wrote:
Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 am
What does it mean that White wins the house after [...]?
Thanks in advance
The same as it did last time you asked.
Would you please help me find the post?
by Ian Thompson
Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:48 am
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: The English Language
Replies: 3459
Views: 336561

Re: The English Language

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:
Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 am
What does it mean that White wins the house after [...]?
Thanks in advance
The same as it did last time you asked.
by soheil_hooshdaran
Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 am
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: The English Language
Replies: 3459
Views: 336561

Re: The English Language

What does it mean that White wins the house after [...]?
Thanks in advance
by Roger de Coverly
Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:08 pm
Forum: Not Chess!
Topic: The English Language
Replies: 3459
Views: 336561

Re: The English Language

soheil_hooshdaran wrote:
Tue Mar 13, 2018 12:18 pm
What does it mean if a line "wins the house"?
It's an idiom meaning total victory or equivalent. Derived from gambling probably.