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David Sedgwick wrote:Sorry I'm late. I was too busy reading, and posting on, the English Chess Forum.

It's the excuse I'm going to use when I arrive late for my London League match this evening.

If I don't get a bit of a move on, that might be my excuse as well.

A simple way to remove the flip board solution is to put co-ordinates round the diagram.

A more complicated example of the same idea is the Christmas Tree problem (<insert your favourite internet search engine> it). Again, it looks like there are two solutions, but it turns out there is only one.

Having played in a match last weekend where there were increments, I can confirm that the twenty minutes are added once one clock reaches zero. Regarding the second quote above, the page now says "...initial time period of 1hr 40min (plus increments) has expired...". While I expect there may be some...

Given the last time I played in a club internal competition was 2001, I wouldn't be able to play for the club I represent in local leagues. This is part of the problem with the counties. Traditional counties are used, but not enough people seem to know where the boundaries actually are. Particularly...

Proving I have rather too much time on my hands, here's a variation I came up with for the bishop vs 4 pawns: 1 Bb7 h5 2 Bc8 h4 3 Ka2 h3 4 Ka3 h2 5 Ka4 h1N 6 Ka5 Kg8 7 Ka4 Kf8 8 Ka5 Ke8 9 Ka4 Kd8 10 Ka5 c6 11 Ka4 Kc7 12 Ka5 Kb8 13 Ka4 Ka8 14 Ka5 Nf2 15 Ka4 Ne4 16 Ka5 Nc5 17 Kb4 Na6 18 Ka4 Nb8 19 Ka5...

There's the following game involving Frank Marshall where white's first fourteen moves are all pawn moves. http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1095244 This games was published in Chess Monthly approximately fifteen years ago in an article entitled "The Perils of Pushing Pawns". Having given...

I recall being harangued for playing P x P e.p., as this was unfair as my junior opponent had never seen it before! I hope you politely responded that if the junior is playing competitive chess then they should know all the rules. It reminds me of a match (Disclaimer: I wasn't present and only hear...

A zero default time would have a profound effect on anyone who is habitually late (and might make them arrive on time!). You can also imagine if the start time is (say) 19:30 and a player arrives with his watch saying 19:29 to find he has been defaulted because someone in the room has a watch saying...