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- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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, ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- 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 ...
- Sun Aug 12, 2018 2:15 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: The English Language
- Replies: 3459
- Views: 336561
- Sun Aug 12, 2018 12:26 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: The English Language
- Replies: 3459
- Views: 336561
Re: The English Language
Would you please help me find the post?Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:48 amThe same as it did last time you asked.soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 amWhat does it mean that White wins the house after [...]?
Thanks in advance
- Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:48 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: The English Language
- Replies: 3459
- Views: 336561
Re: The English Language
The same as it did last time you asked.soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 7:22 amWhat does it mean that White wins the house after [...]?
Thanks in advance
- 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
Thanks in advance
- Tue Mar 13, 2018 2:08 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: The English Language
- Replies: 3459
- Views: 336561
Re: The English Language
It's an idiom meaning total victory or equivalent. Derived from gambling probably.