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- Sat Oct 20, 2018 11:07 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: World Senior Individuals, Bled, November 2018
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9125
Re: World Senior Individuals, Bled, November 2018
Tim: very quickly, yes such a payment request has gone out to at least one other of the Scottish entrants but I haven't (yet) had one. It is irritating that the organisers apparently won't accept credit cards, as this has been pretty well 'standard' even in cases where the organisers 'required' all ...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 10:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Illegal Castling into Legal Castling.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4285
Re: Illegal Castling into Legal Castling.
Stewart - I rather like your idea that all (illegal move!?) transgressions receive a 2 minute penalty in classical time-rated games … not least because as you suggest it is easy for arbiters (and I'd add players) to remember and in retrospect it's probably a reasonable enough penalty in most, if not...
- Tue Oct 16, 2018 9:57 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Illegal Castling into Legal Castling.
- Replies: 39
- Views: 4285
Re: Illegal Castling into Legal Castling.
This is indeed interesting in a variety of ways that flag up implications for the laws of the game … in the modern age! My doubt is about the modern-day validity of a rule which appears to legalise castling on the opposite side in the event of having illegally castled on the other (4.4. as quoted ab...
- Wed Sep 12, 2018 10:46 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: World Senior Individuals, Bled, November 2018
- Replies: 47
- Views: 9125
Re: World Senior Individuals, Bled, November 2018
Thanks, as ever, to Tim for consolidating all this useful information for all of us who play in the events. Modesty, however, forbids me to accept that I am the top-rated British player in the 65+ championship, as Tim suggests, 'as usual'. While it probably is true that I have been the top-rated Bri...
- Tue Aug 21, 2018 9:37 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Leonard Barden's fantastic world record
- Replies: 25
- Views: 4829
Re: Leonard Barden's fantastic world record
Birthday wishes echoed from Scotland. Leonard, keep up your excellent chess reportage!
- Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:02 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: British Over 65 Championship 2018
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3869
Re: British Over 65 Championship 2018
Thanks, Alex. I think that this provides a much fuller picture. For all the reasons I gave in my previous post, however, not least the fact that the existing qualification bars are set in a way that (quite rightly) encourages those 65+ players who meet them to play in the strongest possible competit...
- Fri Aug 17, 2018 11:34 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: British Over 65 Championship 2018
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3869
Re: British Over 65 Championship 2018
Sorry, Kevin. Alex hasn't explained it, at least not fully. Why womens', u-21, u-18, 50+ and sundry other rating prizes, but no 65+ prize, although this is a major FIDE senior age classification, in which continental and world championships are held annually? Ian's point is interesting and maybe the...
- Mon Aug 13, 2018 11:59 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: British Over 65 Championship 2018
- Replies: 21
- Views: 3869
Re: British Over 65 Championship 2018
While I don't wish to make a big point about this, can anyone explain why in addition to the separate 50+ and 65+ British Championships, there are (rather good) prizes for competition among 50+ players who prefer to enter the 'main' Championships yet no prizes for 65+ players who do the same? This h...
- Fri May 11, 2018 7:46 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) RIP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2353
Re: GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) RIP
In above, it should, of course, read 'Russian' not as inadvertently written late at night 'Soviet' veterans association. If editor can change this and delete this post, as I'm now too late to do this, I'd be grateful!
- Thu May 10, 2018 11:08 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) RIP
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2353
Re: GM Evgeni Vasiukov (1933-2018) RIP
For me, too, a very sad loss. I first played against Vasiukov in a simul he gave in Glasgow in the mid-1960s. Since then I've played against him and analysed with him many times in international senior events. He was not just a dangerous and enterprising opponent who retained considerable strength i...
- Wed Apr 11, 2018 10:02 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: John D. Chambers ca. 1845-1930
- Replies: 12
- Views: 2115
Re: John D. Chambers ca. 1845-1930
interesting character and some excellent research but is there really any hard evidence that a teenaged Chambers, ether born c. 1845 or c.1842, actually played Morphy at Birmingham 1858? No game or mention of his name, eg in the Loewenthal book on Morphy.
- Mon Nov 13, 2017 10:07 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: World Senior Championships, Nov. 2017 Acqui Terme
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7682
Re: World Senior Championships, Nov. 2017 Acqui Terme
Very quickly ... Reprintsev didn't remonstrate in the slightest. All the emotion came from his opponent. Reprintsev told me he just felt shocked by his opponent's vehement insistence and surprised that any strong titled player would have reacted that way, so he just appears to have more or less give...
- Sat Nov 11, 2017 10:03 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: World Senior Championships, Nov. 2017 Acqui Terme
- Replies: 42
- Views: 7682
Re: World Senior Championships, Nov. 2017 Acqui Terme
Interesting this. I'm staying at the same small guest house as Reprintsev, who told me that he placed his queen a bit awkwardly (and I presume hardly intentionally) on the join between the two squares b5 and a5. It is, of course, ridiculous to even entertain the idea that he didn't mean anything oth...
- Tue Sep 19, 2017 4:17 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Liverpool Englsh Rapidplay Congress now open for registrations
- Replies: 62
- Views: 7155
Re: Liverpool Englsh Rapidplay Congress now open for registrations
Is there any car parking area for competitors nearby either on the Saturday or (perhaps more chance!?) on the Sunday?
- Wed Apr 19, 2017 11:06 am
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: Nathan Goldberg
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2202
Re: Nathan Goldberg
I would like to echo Anthony's kind thoughts. I don't think I ever came across anyone so in love with absolutely everything about chess, its players of all strengths, its lore and considerable history, or someone as prepared as Nathan Goldberg to undertake the kind of considerable personal and purel...