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Paul Habershon wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 07, 2021 5:35 pm

Simon Brown wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 07, 2021 3:18 pm

Yesterday in the Times Jumbo; “Beyond compare in Lima, introduced to dull game” and “Check when boarding earlier vessel”.

That's tough without the number of letters in a bracket, but I've managed SCHOONER for the second

Corrected. Schooner is right

Yesterday in the Times Jumbo; “Beyond compare in Lima, introduced to dull game (9)” and “Check when boarding earlier vessel (8)”.

Yesterday’s Times Jumbo had “Drink with knight in damaged chair, perhaps (11)” which needs N for knight to be solved.

I agree that was a tough one, I also had the H, from the first clue I solved.

From today's Times - "One piece by queen in drag, failing to finish lines (5)"

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Thu Oct 08, 2020 1:35 pm

He was (resigned in 2012) a Director of ACCELERATED BRIDGING FINANCE LIMITED (05708794) along with Gary Quillan

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Just what I thought. Can't imagine Michael is too pleased about that one coming up every year.

The U-11 from 1975 is interesting -I recognize about 10 names from that, but not the winner. (Apologies if I should remember...) I remember that one for a number of reasons. First, my brother (JA) drew with Nigel Short in an early round - I have the game score somewhere. Second, the Kings, Andrews ...

Conflicts should be resolved, not avoided. There are quite a few on the board already, another minor one shouldn't make any difference and i would imagine both are sensible enough to manage those conflicts.

My game (248) was Hayes (Kent) v Charlton in the Kent League. It was January and Murray was in bare feet!

I played Shamkovich in a Lloyds Bank many years ago, black side of a French Tarrasch f4 line and I played ..f6 and ..g5. After I lost he told me I played the opening like Uhlmann, which made me very happy. RIP

I remember playing darts with Max after a match at Catford Cricket Club. His technique resembled throwing a javelin, without a run-up, and he was useless.

Nice guy though.

This is so sad. John played at Hayes in Kent for many years and was part of the team which won the National Plate in the days when it was a tough competition. That was nearly 30 years ago and he was so young, but he had an opinion on everything and was a fine player. Can scarcely believe this awful ...

John, I wrote mine after seeing Ian’s offering, as I think he was there in 1980! Didn’t see yours until later, but thanks for reminding me that I’m not a GM. Probably never will be.

I played Mickey Adams in the recent ECF blitz event, previous meeting was in January 1980.

I played Mickey. He got his revenge after 41 years!