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Beast Sensation is pretty great... Or No Satanist Bees...

Each Twelfth Term is the best I can come up with [using my full first name]

First meet up of the Wanderers today. Good turnout, good beer and terrible chess (from me at least). Look forward to a fun season! Thanks James and all who came, well worth doing!

To be honest, to me a chess player is a chess player - whether 7 or 107 given the starting position they have the same chance of winning. I really don't see why a junior should be treated differently to any other player - and if they play at a publishable standard then they get published. Anyway, as...

Simon Dixon wrote:I don't know how you expect to get a norm playing sub 1700 players.

But surely the problem here wasn't that they were playing a 1700, but that the 1700 was playing at 2200+ (for whatever reason)?

Ah, now I know why Short-Adams was recorded as 0-1. Heh, I didn't realise that Rendle and Eggleston are ex-Warwick people. So am I - we should all party I know :). We've got Khandelwal in there too. And Nick Pert, and Richard Bates http://www.sunion.warwick.ac.uk/chess/PLAYERS/rec-9899.html (quite ...

I once typed in the wrong postcode to the satnav and turned up at my captain's house instead of the venue. Was too late to correct my error so I just turned round and went home...

What kind of jobs in finance? I can't say that I've ever been interested in that and as such, I think I'd probably find it quite difficult to convince a prospective employer otherwise. The only related thing that I'm vaguely interested in is actuarial stuff, mainly due to the type of work (at least...

Just to complete the game, and in case you hadn't got it already, the move played was 37. ... Nc3. Sample lines being 38. Bxc6 Nxd1 winning the exchange 38. Rxd8 Qxd8 39. Bxc6 Qd2 40. Rf1 Ne2+ 41. Kh1 Rxc6 threatening Rc1 winning quickly 39. bxc3 Qd2 40. Ra1 Bxe4 with multiple threats The actual lin...

Thanks David, it didn't feel to me that it quite belongs to any of the "standard" tactical themes - back rank mate doesn't come into it until a bit later on, and there's a bit of simplification going on in there (to help make the queen look even more out of place stuck on h2!) Yes it was played alth...

Just finished off an adjourned game which involved an interesting tactic: [Event "Stevenage 1 vs Letchworth 1"] [Site "Stevenage"] [Date "2011.05.16"] [Round "?"] [White "Chris Majer"] [Black "Matthew Fletcher"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Qb6 6.Bd3 cxd4 7.cxd4 Bd7 8.O-O Nxd4 9.Nxd4 Qxd4 ...

Is it definitely graded? Not all Club Championships are. It's difficult to say given you're ungraded, because it is subject to my first answer. Thanks Alex - yes, I'm pretty sure my club championship is graded. I also think Ian's link tells me roughly what I wanted to know on how my grade will be c...

I do have a query that's tangentially related to the original question. I don't have a grade at the moment as I haven't played for a few years. My grading performance is about 180 over the 15 games I've played this season. Presumably this (roughly speaking) will be my grade when the list comes out? ...

Thanks Rob. Is the 1 in 16 (16%) figure for exactly 18/12 & 12/18 split or 'at least' 18/12 & 12/18. i.e. would it include 19/11 and 20/10 ... 29/1 and 30/0 etc. To follow up on this, I make the probability of a split of colours that is at 18/12 or more extreme (ie including 19/11 and so on) to be ...

In 2001? Interesting timing...

Apologies for the double post but I felt it warranted a second one. I've looked over game 2 as well - the end was pretty messy! In my view, you played well up to about move 28 - Rd5 instead of Qc2 looks pretty unpleasant for Black. My only significant comment is that 12. b3 seems a bit aimless? One ...