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Perhaps David is waiting for someone to look at tomorrow's potential pairings to see if a win would make life easier?

Well, he's racked up three minutes already and if he can extract his king, it looks pretty easy.

He doesn't need much time in the positions he will be in soon. 42 Rd7 plays itself, just need to be careful of any tricks. Could be 3½ - ½.

I think Mickey will win.

So, the forum got the results in exact reverse order. Not sure what that says about us and what is says about FIDE. Aternatively, given that Nigel transferred his supporters to Dvorkovich, that makes 27/46 or 58.7% of our vote, Actual result was 103/181 or 57% so we were quite close, certainly clos...

Duda - Caruana is very complex. Might be a draw, but certainly not heading that way just yet.

Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 03, 2018 1:24 pm

Anand-Aronian already drawn, Duda-Caruana and Mamedyarov-Ding heading that way as well.

What makes you say that?

Mickey is drawn now as the g pawn isn't far enough ahead, but Luke seems to be winning suddenly. Not quite sure how.

I imagine FIDE as an association has statutes which govern its financial reporting, so it may not have to comply with IFRS. But accounting standards worldwide are being harmonised so I would nevertheless expect the accounts to look like IFRS - Swiss GAAP and IFRS are very similar. As for the post ba...

Let's hope Luke is better on board 2 than board 1

Oho indeed. Never seen that reference to castles before, and the whole crossword feels like the work of a new setter.

Fairly difficult Times crossword today. 26 ac; “There’s a surprise, seeing hotel amidst castles (3)”

Today's Times Cryptic Quintagram (sigh)

"Ship's quarters here for English man on board (10)"

IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑

Wed Aug 01, 2018 4:33 pm

If I were any good at tactics, I'd be a GM by now. Expletive me, that was embarrassing.

Shame your opponent missed 27 Qh7 though. Quite pretty

OK. Adams without a playoff