Amusing Pairings
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Round 9 - e2e4 Gatwick Major E
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/aug2012/ ... rings.html
Homer v Simpson
You couldn't make it up!
http://www.e2e4.org.uk/gatwick/aug2012/ ... rings.html
Homer v Simpson
You couldn't make it up!
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An all-female clash I look forward to seeing some day: Koneru-Yurenok. Has there been a palindromic pairing before anywhere?
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(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Kramnik-Kinnmark would be close, but as far as I know they haven't met.John Clarke wrote:An all-female clash I look forward to seeing some day: Koneru-Yurenok. Has there been a palindromic pairing before anywhere?
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In the first round of a weekender just finished we had the wonderful pairing: Mr Poulet v Mr Boeuf
On Board 15:
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultats.asp ... &Action=01
On Board 15:
http://www.echecs.asso.fr/Resultats.asp ... &Action=01
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In the Guernsey chess open of 2007 Fred Hamperl, the organiser, was itching to have me paired against Tiger Hillarp Persson to give the pairing Ihor v Tigger. Yes people pronounce my name Eeyore!
Sadly the arbiter could not arrange it in the first 4 rounds and I couldn't keep pace beyond that.
Sadly the arbiter could not arrange it in the first 4 rounds and I couldn't keep pace beyond that.
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"In the Guernsey chess open of 2007 Fred Hamperl, the organiser, was itching to have me paired against Tiger Hillarp Persson to give the pairing Ihor v Tigger."
More recently, the ratings are such it might have happened.
More recently, the ratings are such it might have happened.
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Has Thurlow ever played Cromwell?
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"Has Thurlow ever played Cromwell?"
This one hasn't - there don't seem to be too many possibilities, only 1 (or maybe 2) ECF graded Cromwells and one Filipino on the FIDE list.
I have played people called Fox. Charles James Fox was a rather disagreeable politician who was extremely disrespectful to Lord Thurlow during the Pitt the Younger years.
This one hasn't - there don't seem to be too many possibilities, only 1 (or maybe 2) ECF graded Cromwells and one Filipino on the FIDE list.
I have played people called Fox. Charles James Fox was a rather disagreeable politician who was extremely disrespectful to Lord Thurlow during the Pitt the Younger years.
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It occurred to me that Tiger might have played A Milnes, who frequently attends Guernsey, but he appears not to have done.