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Sadly I have to announce to you all the passing of one of Staffordshire Chess’s most loyal stalwarts – Andrew Davies. Andrew P. Davies was born in March 1960 at New Cross Hospital, which was one of the two main hospitals in Wolverhampton at the time. He was the youngest of a family of six. For many ...

"Paris Olympics 2024 Break Dancing IN but Chess OUT!" Going back to this, at least break dancing requires strenuous physical activity. A point against it is that it presumably depends entirely on judges' opinions of how well you have done it, like ice dancing, gymnastics etc. And judges do get thin...

Nepomniachtchi reached his peak live rating yesterday, 17th on the all time list; third in the world

He has 3 rounds of the Russian championship left to gain 6.6 rating points

EDIT he drops back to finish at 2789 going into the Tata Steel Masters in January

Sorry, not had much sleep!

Football Daily Podcast Jedi, chess, and a family sedan

The TWIC database has over 2.4m games, and is available from Mark for £30; money well spent supporting Mark's work

Good to see Mamedyarov playing, as not seen his name mentioned too much over the last few months, plus forum favourite Dubov

4 of the Candidates playing, so the usual question of whether they will be hiding their prep

We've had a Constitution since 1956 We last revised it in 2006, because we felt it should make the point that Membership is open to all regardless of age, sex, race or religion; we also took the opportunity to tidy up a few areas We want to revisit it now, hence the reason for starting the thread; t...

Thanks both

Thanks Mike

Thank you David

Has anyone recently put together/revised a formal Constitution for their chess club?

Our Zoom AGM tonight has decided we need to do this, so if anyone has a template it would be very handy, thanks

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Thu Nov 26, 2020 11:50 pm

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Thu Nov 26, 2020 10:45 pm

The US will want to discredit AstraZeneca to enable their companies to make bigger profits

Possibly, but AZN have done a decent job of that themselves.

The Lancet paper, assessed by independent scientists Oxford Covid vaccine 'safe and effective' study shows

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 16, 2020 7:51 pm

Chess question on tonight's Only Connect

Sequence round staring with Boris then Bobby

Another sequence tonight

Mark Crowther has

83rd Tata Steel Chess tournament goes ahead but only with a 14 player top group. Anish Giri is for now the only confirmed participant. The event entirety in De Moriaan in Wijk aan Zee 15th to 31st January 2021.

Pete Doggers