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Begonia Open 2021: Pairing of round 2, at 7:30pm of 06/03/2021 (accelerated) ...

Begonia Open 2021: Pairing of round 1, at 1:45pm of 06/03/2021 (accelerated) ...

Nepo offers his opinion at 17:20, that Aronian should not be allowed to play for the national team after transferring.

Juniors causing upsets, always good to see them improving unless you happen to be the victim.

Poor Washington Sundar was left stranded on 96 not when India lost 3/0 to be bowled out for 365. This gives India a lead of 160 and the question is...

Tas Champs 2021: Pairing of round 1 =================================================================================== 1 = Bonham,Kevin ...

In Sheffield Shield cricket Cameron Green is smashing the Queensland bowling and has made another century to be 153 not out

We are underway with the 31 listed above. Two games still going in a first round with a lot of upsets so far.

Wouldn't Fritz do it perfectly using the endgame tablebase? That's what they were designed for: Humans can learn technique and remember it from...

I was playing chess there from (about) 1970 to 1980. But that's only approximate, as the 'club' may not have existed for that entire period. And...

Ian Murray would be the best bet for some of the information, however for Bundaberg/Gympie/Maryborough I would suggest Martin Carter/John...

The viewable, downloadable “Western Australia” file below contains information about the formation of the Chess Association of Western Australian,...

There's also another story about Lloyd's earsplitting stentorian voice announcing his victory over one of Victoria's well known IM's! Rumour also...

From this list I met Purdy, Kosh, Karoly, Hanks and Fell. I remember Lloyd once saying during an Australian Open "these Victorians are weak. Today...

If you're talking about Italy, they have had almost 3 million cases and 100,000 deaths, and ~350 still dying every day. We haven't had a single death...

Live games https://www.ballaratchess.com/begonia/2021/games.html

Only I can't see who that is on mobile. Do you know why?

Note that it is a not a one off but a weekly event. Players are welcome back next Wednesday!

over 40 entries already! Make sure to enter in advance!

The final test between India and England has completed two days and India are well on top. England were bowled out 205 but it looked like India were...

Trump effectively torpedoed international cooperation on the vaccine distribution back in December, when he signed an order ensuring that US citizens...

Kevin wrote a good explanation here. Instead of the top half playing the bottom half in round 1, the top quarter play the second quarter, and the...

Were they killing our troops during WW2?

Good on you mate.

Your thoughts are correct. However, I think that somehow it works both ways. For So becoming a US citizen and enjoying all the chess (and...

Round 1 - Seeds 1-39 v Seeds 40-79 Seeds 80-119 v Seeds 120-157 Byes (6) Due to this, pairings aren't completely exact.

Russia had no choice but to respond as was attacked. The USA was isolationist for long as possible. The Aussies from day one were in like Flynn ...

With Fritz it would possibly depend on the level it was on. I put Fritz 16 on Club Player level and I forked the pieces and drew after 8 moves, then...

"A simple thanks will do as I don’t want this thread to go off topic." Thanks - I'll try to solve this problem on my own :-)