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by JustinHorton
Tue Oct 25, 2022 4:50 pm
Forum: Women's Chess
Topic: Women's Candidates matches
Replies: 39
Views: 8148

Re: Women's Candidates matches

Absolute pasting for Anna Muzychuk at the hands of Honeru Kumpy

EDIT: short Humpy interview
by JustinHorton
Tue Oct 25, 2022 3:37 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Vjollca Veli, women's champion of Albania
Replies: 3
Views: 1804

Vjollca Veli, women's champion of Albania

One of the most acclaimed books of the last year or so has been Lea Ypi's Free , a memoir of her childhood in Albania in the last few years of the Hoxha regime (and in the first few years after its fall). In her third chapter, she writes of her mother, Vjollca Veli*: At twenty-two, she became the na...
by JustinHorton
Mon Oct 24, 2022 7:19 pm
Forum: Women's Chess
Topic: Women's Candidates matches
Replies: 39
Views: 8148

Re: Women's Candidates matches

There is a website. First round starts tomorrow at 3 pm, which I imagine means 2pm UK time
by JustinHorton
Sun Oct 23, 2022 4:07 pm
Forum: Women's Chess
Topic: Women's Candidates matches
Replies: 39
Views: 8148

Women's Candidates matches

Tournament begins this week , in Monaco. Quarter-finals and semi-finals (of four-game matches) this month and November, the final (of the tournament, not the world championship) to be held at an indeterminate date in 2023. In fact there's a lot that's indeterminate about the tournament, as I can't l...
by JustinHorton
Sat Oct 22, 2022 11:19 am
Forum: International News
Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
Replies: 1113
Views: 82073

Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2

It does seem that Chesscom may have acted unwisely when they decided to tear up their promises of confidentiality under the impression that nobody was big enough to stand up to them. It's not that I think they would necessarily lose any case: it's that (as suggested above) they may have to reveal a ...
by JustinHorton
Sat Oct 22, 2022 4:22 am
Forum: International News
Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
Replies: 1113
Views: 82073

Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2

Geoff Chandler wrote:
Sat Oct 22, 2022 12:32 am
Meanwhile what I thought might happen appears to be happening.
Geoff Chandler wrote:
Fri Sep 23, 2022 12:30 am
I still expect some kind of apology from Magnus at the end of the tournament.
by JustinHorton
Fri Oct 21, 2022 3:02 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: What happened in Weenink v Kmoch?
Replies: 7
Views: 1589

What happened in Weenink v Kmoch?

Richard James has this , relating to the 1930 Munich Olympiad. https://i.postimg.cc/G2sX3y2J/Weenink-v-Kmoch.png A striking incident, you might think (reported, as the excerpt says, in the Evening Standard, with the clipping being from the Falkirk Herald of 30 July 1930). But do we have any informat...
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:50 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 2022 US Chess Championship
Replies: 138
Views: 13124

Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Another Armageddon farce to end a great event. I really don't get why they came back the next day, just to play two 10 min games and an Armageddon; why not at least play 1/2 hour games or maybe another two 10 minute games. The whole thing was over in an hour. These both sound right to me, and if yo...
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 9:43 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
Replies: 1113
Views: 82073

Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2

Incidentally the legal deposition incorrectly dates Carlsen's Mourinho tweet, locating it in 2020
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:49 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 2022 US Chess Championship
Replies: 138
Views: 13124

Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:33 pm
Jennifer Yu wins!
Blimey, I turned off after 35 Bg3 (mind you the online boards had been malfunctioning).
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:26 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 2022 US Chess Championship
Replies: 138
Views: 13124

Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:09 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: 2022 US Chess Championship
Replies: 138
Views: 13124

Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Krush and Yu swap wins with White and we go to Armageddon
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 7:34 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: Carlsen resigns on move 2
Replies: 1113
Views: 82073

Re: Carlsen resigns on move 2

JustinHorton wrote:
Sat Oct 15, 2022 7:42 am
In re: the potential legal action Dlugy talks about, I'll believe it when I see it, either from him or from Niemann.
Time to believe it I guess.

Just a thought - will this inhibit the publication of the FIDE report?
by JustinHorton
Thu Oct 20, 2022 8:50 am
Forum: International News
Topic: 2022 US Chess Championship
Replies: 138
Views: 13124

Re: 2022 US Chess Championship

Krush had a chance at move 60 . Seems an obvious try - wonder what she missed? Talking of "what she missed," I'd not previously seen precisely what this was about A much better day for Jennifer Yu following on from her hallucination against Krush the round before. but reading the report it turns out...