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Even their first team will never be as dominant as the Soviets back then! The soviets lost only a single ollympiad in 40 years (to Hungary in 1978),...

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https://grandmastermac.com/the-knight-bishop-mate/

Naka's right that it makes it hard for the home-grown players when USA has three imports (four if you count Fabi), but it's a zero-sum game. A spot...

Rating will probably go up a fair bit from that performance with the March ratings.

He played in the Perth Open last weekend, 1500 performance. (And could have been better: he was piece up against a 1700 before blundering mate.)

In principle I would agree with at least some sort of penalty in all those cases. The problem however is how to set up legislation and regulations...

At the risk of putting mockers on, I predict he'd perform minimum 200 points above current rating.

Just please don't overdo it and find resources to beat us.

Naka seems to be focusing on blitz these days and with Inclusion of Levon, he is indeed relegated to the 4th position on the rating list with...

They have a right not to take a job, but does it mean we still have to pay them JOB SEARCH ALLOWANCE? If you ask me to do some gardening for 200...

Or yes, plenty of chess players among them :).

Any suggestions for some kind of a more lenient treatment for unamenable chess players? :D :P

Non sequitur. If criminals have rights then so should the unemployed, with the right to decide which jobs are suitable.

Lol I think Naka is more worried about his position in the Olympic team rather than that of the youngsters! :D well not really, he holds 4rth...

Quick Tournaments currently submitted for March 2021 ACF Ratings. Tournaments Rated ACT 19/12/2020 44 7 2020 ACT Rapid Championship...

6 Grandmasters? Wow, that's most of Australia's chess grandmasters, I think :-)

No, I already addressed that. The player has an ACF classic rating of 1128 and a chess.com rapid rating of 1830. The strength or otherwise of...

The Next Tuesday's blitz is now open for entries:...

Final reminder for this event tomorrow - all players are welcome to come and enter on the day! Juniors are especially encouraged to join as we have...

With just over a month to go the Doeberl Cup has about 120 entries lined up. We already have six Grandmasters entered (Anton Smirnov, Temur...

You keep on avoiding J.P.'s as well as my reference to the main point of this argument which has to do with the tournament not being a rapid...

Not at all, the political situation over there is very complex right now. He would never switch Federations under the previous government with or...

Another amazing experience was: that I managed to play 3 members of the same family in a single tournament!

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/melbourne-chess-club/events/mcc-allegro-over-the-board--11/lobby Today's allegro results My drama happened in rd6...

Great news!

so shall we give all the unemployed money unconditionally without them having to meet job search requirements? Shall we just give money to all? How...

The reasons can be asked. But if someone's reason is ''it would be inconvenient as it would clash with my chess club meetings'' or ''I am...