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Early Bird discount closes on Wednesday 29 January Name NRtg FRtg Ilic,Nicholas 1915 1894...

So much for Brexit disaster! UK economy set to TROUNCE eurozone, IMF report says BRITAIN’S economy is set to power ahead after Brexit, outpacing the...

Not sure if you understand what issue we are talking about in this thread or not...

Please see the articles. They refer to money being saved for ''other causes''. It is NOT that they are taking too long. It is that they are NOT...

Here are the results for the opening round of the Summer Swiss 2020 1 Rashid,Russell 1 - 0 Kodituwakku,Risinu 2 Abubakar,Nahuel 0 -...

Some great games will be played on Friday January 24 eg Cameron McGowan v Byron Morris, Gordon Yang v Michael Ostapenko, Henry Slater-Jones v...

Michael gets it wrong again? No, I don't believe it. Screaming fire every day - maybe it is a repeat of Paul there may be a micro chip implanted

You really need to be careful before you make accusations like the ones you did. There's no evidence I'm aware of that the money raised by any of...

I think that generally Goryachkina's wins were by outplaying her opponent whereas two of Ju's wins were partly or entirely because Goryachkina...

Overall, I think scores equal after 12 games is a decent reflection of the match. Alexsandra with white was able to gain the initiative in quite a...

White to play https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EO70yEPUwAABKYK?format=jpg&name=900x900 By Vasily Platov

Goryachkina wins so off to rapid tie break tomorrow.

In this thread I am referring (as evident from the articles quoted) specifically to the fundraising towards bushfire victims! see post #1 etc in...

in late 1970's a GM event took place in South Africa. The participating GMs got disqualified for a short while.

And at the critical moment, Nigel spills his coffee all over the commentary table

Much better now though (move 40).

Many countries have minorities who are treated badly. If you ban Israel then you have to ban China over the Uighur, for starters. I don't see how...

Not going too well for Goryachkina at the moment (move 20).

I think we all know the answer to that one where Trump is concerned :)

Watching the game live from move one. Yes, Ju really did think for that long on move 2.

Nations that were already excellent or only slight infringements and not becoming worse of course could be allowed for. If nations that were very...

I've just scrolled back the Youtube feed, and it certainly looks like it!

It's Anton versus Anton tomorrow night: Anton Smirnov v David Anton Guijarro!

Did Ju really think for nearly 20 minutes after 1.d4 d5 2.Nc3 ?

A new saying that seems to have come into vogue - Win on demand. With white having to win on demand, I would like to see at least a good attempted...

That would be a silly benchmark as it would admit nations that were trying to improve from atrocious to merely very bad, while excluding nations that...

My cousin , a dentist at Parramatta, has been making sandwiches and giving them out for years under a Catholic umbrella. No middle men, no ...

The USA should not be able to ban "Internationalists", if it occurs then take the privilege off the USA.

Russia is still under some economic sanctions due to Crimea. There is I believe two sides to that story but they should not be allowed to get away...