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There's lots of noisy places in London to choose from :lol: maybe St Pancras, Kings Cross or Waterloo would do it Funny you should mention that - the year I played in it (and presumably other years), the Times Schools final was held in Charing Cross Hotel which backs directly onto the station. The ...

From the chessbase coverage https://en.chessbase.com/post/candidates-opening-and-round-1-live Once again citing the specious YouGov survey data from 2012, as a basis for setting expectations of viewership, Merenzon says the goal is to reach 20-30 million people who will follow the Candidates in Ber...

Also Karjarkin and Mamedyarov, to a question about the venue: Actually, I don't like almost anything in the organisation of the tournament. I don't like (the) hotel, I don't like (the) venue, and also it was a few times very noisy during the game I agree with Sergei half to half. I think the hotel i...

Exciting games, but not a good start for the organisers - when I looked there were only around 300 watching the (free) official stream - I guess it may have picked up later on - followed by this from Grischuk in the post-match interview, when asked what he thought about the start of the tournament: ...

soheil_hooshdaran wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 23, 2017 6:04 am

What would happen if Kg2?

Unlike the alternatives, Qh4 defends the d8 square. So I think you play 2...Re6 after 2.Kg2 - and there's no need to worry about Qd8+.

Users at the various sites try to equate ratings every so often. This is the latest one I'm aware of from chess.com There's not huge amounts of data behind it (clicking through, it's based on responses from around 100 users) but it looks like a rule of thumb of chess.com rating = FIDE rating isn't m...

Peter, I think it did start playing random moves, but I'm not convinced that this is drawish. Agree it would be interesting to see some early games if they're stored! I also think they do mention the number of games per step - the report says 'mini-batches of 4,096'. So if my maths is right, it self...

It was impressive that he was 11/11 on his "silly learning tasks" until he made the mistake of trying to learn chess! You wonder whether he practised against club players, That might have alerted him to a problem that if you lose a piece to a simple tactic just past the opening, your approach as to...

The World Chess Facebook page is indeed streaming the commentary today for free, so I'll stop giving them the benefit of the doubt. This is what World Chess had to say: @LennartOotes and everyone -- we will show first few days on Facebook live to promote the feature, and on Day 4 it will be a paid ...

An odd tale in the Wall Street Journal and some seriously silly reporting - wasn't sure if it deserved its own thread: "Obsessive learner" spends a month learning chess, develops an algorithm, takes on Magnus Carlsen. Can the novice beat the World Champion? After eight moves, using his own limited c...

Did anyone else notice that the scene where Fischer storms out because of Russian collusion (agreeing draws between themselves) was set at the Olympiad? I know there were other glaring inaccuracies, but for some reason that was the one that was the most jarring to me. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DLe...

JustinHorton wrote:Isn't Black's 34th a capture, by the way?

I didn't think so - though I could potentially be persuaded.

I think it might just be possible to go a bit further with this (albeit with some speculative intermediate moves) as Black clearly promotes with check on move 49.

So if you're right, that might give us 29 ... B-B5 30 K-Kt2 P-R4 31 K-R3 P-Kt4 32 K-Kt4 and then the bishop moves, but to where? Based on seeing some 7s and 8s, some possible knight moves and the pawn captures on move 38, I've got the following written down: 32...B-R3 33. Kt-Kt5 ??? 34. Kt-[Q6?] ??...

I was just about to post this which I think is the same as (at least, very similar to) John's analysis above. I'm pretty sure move 24-28 are right - nothing else fits with the length of the moves. Similarly to John, I'm not sure where the black Rook goes on move 22 - also where the black Bishop goes...

Karjarkin is still the youngest ever GM, at exactly 12 years 7 months. Praggnandhaa was born on 10 August 2005 which I think means he has until 10 March next year to get there - he has the 2500 rating but my understanding is that (if he achieves it) this would be his first norm. [EDIT for incorrect ...