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LozCooper wrote:Round 1 Game 4 tomorrow:

Gelfand (2) v Mamedjarov (1)
Topolov (1) v Kamsky (2)
Grischuk (1.5) v Aronian (1.5)
Kramnik (1.5) v Radjabov (1.5)

Interesting that both players ahead in their match are rated lower than their opponent, hence the prediction of Grishuk and Radjabov winning tomorrow

My old PC has finally given up the ghost and so I have the dreaded task of sorting some vital software for the replacement. First objective is an uncomplicated pgn reader - ideally with an analysis engine attached and hopefully as a free download. My old pgn reader was ideal, if a bit buggy, and ca...

As a keen student of IT, there is no pdf document that cannot be unprotected and distributed illegally. However this doesn't mean that there is no merit in the idea, and that it can't be profitable. It does not necessarily have to be PDF either. You might want to look at what Europe Echecs has on t...

The Spanish one appears to be Jaque and the French one Europe Eches, and the German one Schach. If you consider also non-English magazines, you might want to add to the list the Italian Torre e Cavallo . Like very few other chess magazines, Torre e Cavallo is sold on (selected) newsagents; you can ...

Which is worse - resigning with rather less than good grace, or not resigning at all? Well, there are rules and there's etiquette/politeness. If you can't stand your opponent not resigning in a lost position, you should ask for the rules to be changed. That player does not do anything irregular. I ...

My opponent as White forgot an (obvious) intermediate pawn check on move 11 and got in deep trouble. I liked leaving both Rooks for his Queen to take. 1. e4 e6 2. d4 d5 3. Nd2 Nf6 4. e5 Nfd7 5. Bd3 c5 6. c3 Nc6 7. Ne2 cxd4 8. cxd4 f6 9. Nf4 Nxd4 10. Qh5 Ke7 11. Ng6 hxg6 12. Qxh8 Nxe5 13. Bb1 Qc7 14....

That accounts for half of the story, if there's no money for a Kasparov-Shirov match, then you might not organize one. But this does not justify organizing another match Kasparov-Kramnik and accepting it as world championship match. Why not? That's surely got to be better than the champion's not pl...

Well that wasn't cool by any means but it wasn't the result of a deliberate plot was it? I thought it was just down to the fact that nobody would stump up any cash for a Kasparov- Shirov match. That accounts for half of the story, if there's no money for a Kasparov-Shirov match, then you might not ...

What's the legal position here though? Had I resigned, albeit by accident, or had I made the equivalent of an illegal move and was I, technically speaking at least, entitled to restart the clocks and carry on. From the FIDE Handbook , article 5.1b: The game is won by the player whose opponent decla...

I don't like the idea that you have months to prepare for the first match and then 2-3 days for the semi and final. Why should the players do that? In fact, they have months to prepare against any of the other candidates. Nobody forbids Topalov to prepare against Kramnik today... and if the match d...

I don't like the idea that you have months to prepare for the first match and then 2-3 days for the semi and final. Why should the players do that? In fact, they have months to prepare against any of the other candidates. Nobody forbids Topalov to prepare against Kramnik today... and if the match d...

While reading the post about the chess leagues surveys, I was surprised to see how popular is to have a time control of the form: - 1h 15m for the first 30 moves - 15m quickplay finish for the rest of the game ...with small variations for the number of games (30 to 36), for the initial amount time (...

Depends how long the player is away for I would have thought Alan ~ that's why I added the caveat "if the player really is nowhere to be seen." I don't think it's reasonable to ask a player to wait indefinitely. Indefinitely? There is a clock for the exact purpose of having games of limited duratio...

In the last round of a recent congress, black was in a commanding postion with over 20 minutes on the clock, whereas white had about 7 minutes remaining. It was white's move, but instead of doing so the player just stood up and without offering to shake hands just said ''It is too early to resign b...

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