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I would be very......interested.....to see him try a Cochrane Gambit in that

If the game has already started, then it should be counted for grading/rating IMO.

Though I understand this doesn't always seem totally "fair" - its still a classic case of "hard cases make bad law" it seems to me.

Magnus is having a nightmare tournament and he was brutally honest about it in the brief interview he did last night, which is refreshing. But I do wonder if other players, who don't have his standing, would have been invited again if they were saying things like "you can expect more of the same to...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 14, 2019 1:06 am

Should we ban the Kalashnikov Variation of the Sicilian Defence?

There are quite a few chess opening names that would appear "odd" to non players, when you think about it.......

After yesterday's high of beating Magnus, all three games lost by Caruana today.

Drew in the end, but a shocking day for the champ - against Aronian he simply threw away a superior position.

I cannot fathom why anybody is discussing a chess variant they have probably never played, or seen played My local league still had an odds knockout competition when I started chess in the 1980s. Strongest players were given a 1, weakest 5. Players who rated one higher had Black, conceding the f7 p...

I don't like early starts tbh, but its having a *different* earlier time for the last game that really bugs me.

He is on record as making some rather "off colour" comments on Jews in his teenage years, though it was far from the mania it later became.

Wasn't his "credible" diagnosis Aspergers, anyway?

That is subtly different from what many perceive as autism.

Of course Black took the pawn thinking White "had" to play Qa1+, when Kb4 should draw.

However, he doesn't have to move his Q as far down that diagonal......

Whoops!

Ah yes, early starts on the last day.

Something that I have always found abominable

Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:56 pm

Prize winners.

Rapidplay
1st= Andrew Lewis (Manningtree); James Sherwin

Is that the same James Sherwin who is game one in Fischer's 60MG's.

That player settled in England around two decades ago. Though if it is him he is in his mid 80s now, so any prize is impressive.

This takes me back to Mamedyarov - Kurnosov, Aeroflot 2009, one of the earliest important cases. From a well known position, White played dreadfully and was crushed by a series of fairly obvious forcing moves. His opponent left the playing area several times - he says for a cigarette, as was his cu...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 01, 2019 7:27 pm

I am a bit confused that somebody professionally involved in chess doesn't appear to know this.

Yes, that surprised me too (regardless of the wider rights or wrongs)