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Under sporting law a player can be deemed to have made a contribution. A professional chess player told me that this only applies to professionals in chess. I would like to know what other people think. A chess player can have published games, played for a long time or had enough results against pr...

"Having hit the giddy heights of number four as the singer/announcer of The Flying Lizards's "Money", Evans-Stickland left the bands ever-changing line-up, retrained as a psychotherapist and took time out to have a child. She also formed the band Deborah And The Puerto Ricans. Currently working help...

Anyway I note that Ray's so-called charity has got to the end of February without filing its accounts , something that would probably concern its independent examiner if they were independent and did any examining. Hard to avoid noticing that Ray is the trustee of another, newly registered, charity...

Just listened to it. Garry isn't even a proper Senior yet. I hope you won that 11 hour game! Couldn't remember Garry's actual age. As for that marathon game at Eastbourne, I spent what seemed forever defending with rook and bishop against a rampant queen - with pawns on both sides - to no avail. An...

Paul Habershon wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2020 1:29 pm

Impetus was Roger organising a Watford junior tournament. Most amusing question: 'Is Garry Kasparov still alive?'

I was able to reassure listeners - and Garry, in the unlikely event that he heard the programme - that he is indeed still with us.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/live: ... ties_radio for half-an-hour from 12.15 onwards

This is Three Counties' Radio 'live' link for today, Friday, but on later days it'll appear on an archived page

Edit - Archive link from Saturday onwards is https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p08287xb

the same probably applies to the story, in a separate thread on this forum and involving entirely different people, concerning considerable sums of pension fund money. I'm failing to see the substantial difference between the relevance of that story and this one. I'm not sure there's a substantial ...

It's a media story involving a chessplayer Yes, I understand that - and late payment or [worse still] non-payment of wages undoubtedly causes hardship, as well as being unlawful, so I'm certainly not condoning it. To be clear, I'd never heard of Dave Hackett before this arose and I don't know the f...

And today's chess player in the news for discreditable business practices is Dave Hackett . At least they didn't call him a chess master (or indeed reference the game at all). Oh for sure. I only noticed because the story popped up on a friend's Facebook, due I think to either their child or a frie...

Lionel Burrell starred alongside Charlie Chaplin in Midnight Express, Charlie Chaplin's first speaking film in 1931. I can recall the Midnight Express film of 1978, which caused quite a furore at the time, but not an earlier similarly-titled film. Curiously, when I checked the full list of Charlie ...

I played King takes King Bishop two check. Bishop takes King Bishop two check, presumably. Could be K if it's discovered check. "King Bishop two" makes no sense if it's a capture. If it's BxB then the "King" in the "King Bishop" is probably redundant. Makes little sense as the writer claims to have...

Alex Holowczak is just about the only ECF Director who posts on this Forum regularly. I don't always agree with what he says, but I normally find the content informative and useful. If that continues, we can count ourselves singularly fortunate. After what Alex has been subjected to on the last cou...

"For the moment Worcestershire CA and Katarzyna are claiming a new chess record"

Prima facie, you do indeed have a county first in that Katarzyna appears to be the first woman to play on top board for Worcestershire.

"Quite how he managed to have a conversation without realising it was confidential escapes me." Maybe it wasn't confidential at the time, then someone realised later, that they didn't want it discussed, so decided retrospectively it was confidential? A conversation either was confidential or was no...