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- Fri May 05, 2023 9:09 pm
- Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
- Topic: FM Mike Franklin (02-ii-1931 25-iv-2023)
- Replies: 27
- Views: 4211
Re: FM Mike Franklin (02-ii-1931 25-iv-2023)
RIP, my old friend. After two wins when we were both schoolboys, I never managed to defeat him in a competitive game. Michael was a true gentleman, a calm and approachable person who rarely spoke harsh words. As a player, he had excellent strategic and blitz skills, was IM strength in his best years...
- Sun Apr 16, 2023 2:55 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: British Rapidplay Championship 2023
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1383
Re: British Rapidplay Championship 2023
Congratulations to your son on a great result with the final round against a strong GM still to go!
https://chess-results.com/tnr752774.asp ... =30&snr=40
https://chess-results.com/tnr752774.asp ... =30&snr=40
- Sun Apr 09, 2023 11:47 pm
- Forum: Live Games
- Topic: Southend Masters 2023 (GM Title Norms)
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1716
Re: Southend Masters 2023 (GM Title Norms)
Does Ghasi have any previous GM norms?
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 12:45 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124406
Re: Chess history trivia
We shared a room at the 1952 Helsinki Olympiad. But Reinfeld's description is just wrong about the Milner-Barry variation of the Nimzo-Indian (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Qc2 Nc6!?) being a gambit continuation. When I tried to refute it with some prepared analysis, M-B ground me down in the ending.
- Wed Mar 29, 2023 11:09 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124406
Re: Chess history trivia
Milner-Barry?
- Fri Mar 24, 2023 9:00 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Mr. N.O. Body in Liverpool 1923
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1179
Re: Mr. N.O. Body in Liverpool 1923
Lodewijk Prins competed in the Premier Reserves Major (later renamed the Challengers) at Hastings 1949-50 under the pseudonym 'L Smith'. I forget the exact reason, but think it was some kind of protest about not being invited to the Premier. I asked him what the L stood for and he said 'Len'. I reme...
- Sun Mar 19, 2023 5:39 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF meeting reports
- Replies: 93
- Views: 13722
Re: ECF meeting reports
Chess.com claims around three million active users (4.4% of the population) from the UK in January, which is still not among their top ten countries.....
- Thu Mar 16, 2023 4:54 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: English victories against reigning World Champions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 17518
- Sun Mar 12, 2023 2:22 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: English victories against reigning World Champions
- Replies: 126
- Views: 17518
Re: English victories against reigning World Champions
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1224020MJMcCready wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 1:54 pmYes, that's what I thought, certainly against the current world champion but I am not sure if a Brit beat Capablanca after he lost his title.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1135510
- Tue Mar 07, 2023 10:23 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Varsity Match 2023
- Replies: 39
- Views: 6017
Re: Varsity Match 2023
There is a link to the game moves in the article above, just click on lethal threat.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 6:11 pm
(I can't get hold of the game itself right now, but maybe someone would be kind enough to post it?)
- Sat Mar 04, 2023 12:11 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 23rd European Individual Championship 2023
- Replies: 68
- Views: 10018
Re: 23rd European Individual Championship 2023
https://chess-results.com/partieSuche.a ... 12575&rd=1
Scroll down to the final quarter of games and you will find it. Deserved victory, the GM is outplayed.
Scroll down to the final quarter of games and you will find it. Deserved victory, the GM is outplayed.
- Fri Mar 03, 2023 6:00 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: 23rd European Individual Championship 2023
- Replies: 68
- Views: 10018
Re: 23rd European Individual Championship 2023
Chess results showing
1 191 433 Cox Tristan A 1975 1-0 GM Neverov Valeriy 2414 191
If true, HUGE upset victory for the unknown English amateur.
Wins also for Grieve, Royal and Wadsworth
1 191 433 Cox Tristan A 1975 1-0 GM Neverov Valeriy 2414 191
If true, HUGE upset victory for the unknown English amateur.
Wins also for Grieve, Royal and Wadsworth
- Sat Feb 25, 2023 12:27 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Victor Buerger (Berger)
- Replies: 9
- Views: 1181
Re: Victor Buerger (Berger)
I should also add, since it is not mentioned in John's Lloyds Bank Masters link above, that I also had played Victor Buerger 30 years earlier, in the British Championship qualifying competition of 1950. I can't recall much about the occasion except that the game was played in my room at Balliol, Oxf...
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 6:31 am
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Cambridge International Open
- Replies: 99
- Views: 11043
Re: Cambridge International Open
Realistically, the way forward now ought to be for the ECF to find out which of the missing five prime GM norm candidates Wadsworth 2477, Ghasi 2471, Harvey 2466, Royal 2456, and Willow 2431 wants to play in Cambridge, and to put these players at the top of the waiting list.
- Tue Jan 10, 2023 12:09 am
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: Cambridge International Open
- Replies: 99
- Views: 11043
Re: Cambridge International Open
My attempt to evaluate norm opportunities has been hampered by the use of ECF rather than FIDE ratings. Whatever their relative merits, it is the latter that you need for norms. Nick, there is a Fide rating list for Cambridge here https://www.englishchess.org.uk/cambridge-international-open-entrant...