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I would have thought "tiny" would normally be smaller than the other two.

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:15 am

In retrospect, the chess world got it badly wrong twenty years ago in not getting a foothold in the hours of satellite transmissions just waiting to be filled

Hard to disagree there, maybe we were all still hoping for regular chess content on terrestrial TV at that point?

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 05, 2018 8:40 am

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 05, 2018 6:22 am

Steve Gardner writes on the match in 3 Quarks Daily

The Petroff is a crazy and complicated opening

Frank Marshall used to play it, you know!

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 30, 2018 1:21 pm

I think, but cannot be certain, that the 1996 match between Kasparov and Anand employed increments and had a quick finish.

I'm not sure about that either, I do know that it was in 199*5* however

Roger Lancaster wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 30, 2018 10:11 am

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 29, 2018 6:12 pm

Kay Burley, shurely she isn't into chess??

Has always seemed the type who might ask (a la the Spice Girls movie) "how does the horsey bit move??"

LOL, that's a trifle sexist!

Not really, though it is perhaps somewhat Burleyist

There have certainly been some highly exciting 0-0 draws in football, though I don't deny they are very much in the minority.

Nick Grey wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 29, 2018 10:40 pm

Is Magnus going to retire? So putting a spoke up the next cycle.

I rather doubt it.

Kay Burley, shurely she isn't into chess??

Has always seemed the type who might ask (a la the Spice Girls movie) "how does the horsey bit move??"

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 29, 2018 5:45 pm

So from 1948 until Karpov in 1978, only Petrosian won as defending champion.

A remarkable achievement, which is I think more recognised now than it was at the time.

Matt Mackenzie>Alekhine always made clear he would have a rematch with Capa if JRC matched the conditions he (AAA) had had to fulfil for their 1927 match. It is not really his fault that the world economic crash soon afterwards made that a rather more daunting prospect...< Matt, please note that th...

1978 had some effect as well I would say, but the point is those times were the exception not the norm.

Nick Ivell wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 28, 2018 6:37 pm

All in all an unsatisfactory spectacle, of interest to the connoisseur, but unlikely to bring new recruits to the game.

When was the last WC match that significantly did??

Fair play to Magnus though, this is more decisive than I expected given the previous course of the match.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Wed Nov 28, 2018 5:48 pm

Caruana possibly regretting his decision to accept the draw in game 12 of the classical phase of the match.

Regretting his 24th move in game 8, more like

Alekhine always made clear he would have a rematch with Capa if JRC matched the conditions he (AAA) had had to fulfil for their 1927 match. It is not really his fault that the world economic crash soon afterwards made that a rather more daunting prospect. There is IMO a clear bias towards Capablanca...