English Chess Forum

I always enjoy Richard's interventions. You know they are going to make sense.

I assumed they were talking about Phil Ehr, but I have to admit I was struggling to care.

Non-chess players are always surprised that you would have junior competitions with seven hour games and just a single game a day. Then we have the random excursions to show off the delights of Batumi, Elista or some delightful little war zone. However, I think I have found an event that easily ecli...

To return to the question of the thread, in normal circumstances surely the answer would be quite easy.
Vote for Nigel in Round 1 and then Makro in Round 2 if it gets that far. That sends a signal that you want to see a more transparent organisation, but your vote counts.

Kirsan has encouraged chess in smaller, non-traditional chess playing countries for his own political ambitions. However, that is a perfectly noble aim in itself. Nigel has played in a huge number of countries and generally taken the game to a worldwide audience. I am sure that he has his own selfis...

Re: the leader in The Times : No mention of Makropoulos and mostly about Ilyumzhinov - not much actually about Short. Is this in the print edition as well? I'm sure it will be in the print edition. No surprise the items are light on detail. Most readers will only support a general interest in the g...

I think the slate is more important than just the individual running for president. Who would these candidates have as treasurer for instance? It will be hard for us to know all the individuals involved and I guess if Malcolm is part of a slate, it would be very difficult for me to look beyond this.

Ivan Savvidi's Group of Companies (Greece).

Quite a colourful sponsor lined up for future FIDE events.

Just had a look at chess reults and it is interesting where the players come from. I think England and Ireland are the only two countries in 'Western' Europe to have representatives.

Alan Turing created a ‘computer’, Turochamp; The fact that it could play chess at a reasonable level was both surprising and revolutionary. That has basically formed the basis of all computing ever since. Alpha Go and Alpha Zero have a new approach which is undoubtedly much more successful at winnin...

Strange tournament with quite a few uncharacteristic mistakes from the top players. Of no doubt though, the player who played the best won. Well done to Alan.

Whilst not being an insider on the machinations of FIDE it seems pretty clear to me what is going on here. Kirsan wanted to fundamentally change chess, so that the aim was to capture/take off the opponent's king. You may agree with that or you may not, but it is perfectly logical and it would certai...

Well the English is 1. C4 and the Reti is 1. Nf3 d5. 2. C4. If in the English Black intended to play d5 (after say e6 or c6) and White intended to play Nf3 then the two lines would lead to the same thing. The Reti simply takes out some possibilities for both sides.

OK, well that was a bit random

Move 15 and I don't think things are going well for So at all.