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I think the point is this - chessplayers seem to think that the World Champion should be the best player in the World. It is not clear to me (or presumeably Alex) why this should be the case. In darts or snooker the World Championship is just another (albeit a particularly important) tournament.

Do we know if there will be play today?

It depends how you judge it. It is a pretty solid performance to win three games and draw six, but had there been a different result on board 11 in the last round, I would have gone home with £167 and a few less rating points. Statistically, I am sure that I have had quite a few better performances,...

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This strikes me as very odd. Surely at these sort of tournaments everyone is staying on site so things ought to be pretty bad to force a postponement. I just hope everyone is safe.

This was an amazing tournament with some fantastic chess, unbelievable blunders and tremendous tension. I think the 4NCL deserve a great deal of credit for getting it on and organising it. It is a little bit sad that it has really piqued the interest once we have a player graded in the 70’s to talk ...

The tension doesn’t finish even when the tournament is over :? - anyone know who the two qualifiers for the British Knockout are? Looking at the final rankings on chess-results http://chess-results.com/tnr388763.aspx?lan=1&art=1&rd=9&flag=30 it may well be you and your last round opponent, with eve...

The tension doesn’t finish even when the tournament is over - anyone know who the two qualifiers for the British Knockout are?

Guido Fawkes has a piece with a couple of nice pictures. I am not sure how to link to the article, but here is the text Andrew Gwynne made a rook-ie error while attempting to play chess on a visit to a primary school in his constituency last week, with the Shadow Communities Secretary concluding: “a...

There is no way Rex Sinquefield is going to set up a federation involving chessplayers across the world. It's absolute fantasy. I can imagine him wanting to buy up the world championship. More than that - why? how? what? where are people getting this from? Not fantasy, relatively easy. You set up a...

I think Malcolm has been consistent in that he has effectively wanted to end Russia's control of FIDE. This election has surely proven that is impossible in the foreseeable future. Perhaps the answer then is for Rex Sinquefield to get his wallet out and set up a rival to FIDE. That could mean intere...

I haven’t posted on this thread before, but I suspect that I hold the views of most of the people in British Chess, perhaps world chess. We’d like to see Malcolm Pein as the President of FIDE - he is simply the best candidate. That wasn’t on offer, the choice was between a powerful state backed cand...

Apologies Mick, it would help if I could read!
I had assumed it said ineligible. Not sure what that means, maybe the prizes at the knockout are smaller this year?

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 19, 2018 3:24 pm

And also

Players qualifying for the two places at the British Knockout Championship will be eligible for the prizes on offer at the congress itself.

which hasn't been the case with previous qualifying events

I think you are incorrect there.

Nearly there. The top six boards will be broadcast live and hopefully there'll be some pretty exciting clashes with the field that has been assembled. I think there is still room for a few more entries if you fancy a trip down to Harrow on sunday.