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NickFaulks wrote:6-6 but closer than the score indicates.

Ah, Paul Cooksey too good for me!

Karjakin has beaten him just once in 20 games. I used the same thinking to predict the outcome of a match in 1972 Just out of interest - which world championship contestants have met each other most before their match, and which the least? I guess you might want to exclude games between the two pla...

ps Another change starts this school year - the new GCSEs in Maths and English will be graded from 9 (top) to 1 (bottom). This is the reverse order of the old O levels. Satire being dead, I assume this is actually true. Were McKinsey paid £20m of our money to think up this one? Yes it's true, but s...

NickFaulks wrote:I sometimes wonder whether all the homework and pressure is not so much a part of proper education as an alternative to it.

That's what my two teenagers seem to think - though I guess they are biased.

It eventually became too difficult, though, because of increasing academic pressures. I'm sure that's true, but this constant refrain drives me mad. When I was at school, at what would nowadays be considered a "crammer", I'm sure we worked quite hard, but certainly not to the point of excluding che...

Over a third were state schools: 31 independent, 13 state selective, 5 comprehensive, 27 boys school, 17 mixed, 5 girls. The leading state school was mine, Wilson's, who were 6th. The leading non-selective state school were Chepstow who were 17th. So there is a glimmer of hope. Thanks very much for...

Are many of these State schools; and if not I wonder if Neill sees any glimmers of hope in persuading more of them to compete in this event?

'Chess Notes' by Edward Winter has for many years championed the cause of accuracy in chess writing, perhaps quixotically, but always with rigour. The now discontinued Streatham & Brixton blog also followed a number of specific issues along these lines with enthusiasm. As for the Korchnoi quote; har...

If people are interested in results with big rating upsets, look no further than England women v Syria women. We can assume that the Syrian women are significantly stronger than their gradings. Having looked at Sarah's game where she found 51 d6, I decided not to look any further. We've all done it...

If people are interested in results with big rating upsets, look no further than England women v Syria women.

At least the decision of who to leave out is now difficult for positive reasons. But really from this distance how can you know about the players' states of mind and who is tired etc.?

Certainly been enjoyable seeing Gawain's last 2 games and also Nigel's good showing after Tromso.

On paper I've been the strongest player in my very small club for several years. If I left, the club would carry on without a hitch.

If the guys that run things, but don't play much, or quite so well, leave, then the club will fold.

Who would you rather have?

Matt Mackenzie wrote:A pretty strong bunch to get whitewashed by, tbf.

You wouldn't want to be the captain who gives that opposition team sheet to their players; though they rested Keres and Bronstein, who may have been regarded as stronger than Tal and Petrosian at the time (?)

theres some single mother at Atticus in Liverpool who earns more than men, laughs at a player with learning difficulties, called me and others names behind their backs and thinks there is nothing wrong with her beaviour. This creature gets given more than the men she criticizes and has money from a...