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more importantly though was Bernard's seat in Tassie swinging away from the Whitlam govt.

Whereas the other Independent is very importantly trying to keep Australia white, that attitude 120 years ago did keep Katter's mob out of this...

Carlsen is fortunate that there are no other greats currently playing. For example in Lasker's day there was Capablanka, Marshall, Alekhine and...

Phelps is looking more comfortable after further counting. I hesitate to ever disagree with Kevin on a psephological matter, but on Insiders this...

Are you Scott Morrison's speechwriter? This is his concession speech from last night, having just lost a seat that has been Liberal (or its...

the Washington Post is claiming that Donald Trump is the worse person ever to become president - I would like to see a poll on that.

Not. I now think his high to date is as high as he'll ever go.

No. A concession of defeat or claim of victory is legally irrelevant.

Just a reminder to all potential players that payment is required before Sunday 28 October for early bird discount to apply. Also, with the...

Thursday evening group coaching with WGM Julia Ryjanova will be starting again on 1st Nov, 7pm. If you want to attend you have to pre-register,...

Nice one!

I wonder how confident the people predicting 2900+ (in some cases a big +) are now.

Just played badly.

were your kidney stones playing up?

I don't think it is the same as resigning in chess, if Phelps claimed victory well you can't really force those corks back into the champers bottle

Does the fact that Sharma has conceded make any difference?

I'm actually not certain Phelps has won. Closed up a lot more than expected on prepolls though Sharma still has to do much better on the "swing" on...

There are always fears, abuses and people acting illegally. It should not deter us. Re helping people who are not ''brave fighters'' - it encourages...

Possibly more likely now that Phelps has won Wentworth with a swing of over 20%, forcing Morrison into minority government.

I believe that the current relocation assistance only applies to full-time work for more than six months. And we know that putting people in...

In the much-anticipated return of the Game of the Week, we are featuring Rashid vs Leontyev, a complicated draw on board 1. The annotations are based...

Your point was to allege bias on both sides, which I reject. In any case, the part of the sentence from 50 Moves which Vlad left out in order to...

Which means if he loses the lead in the match with Caruana, he'll lose live #1, which might have an extra impact on him.

1) Relocated - Centerlink some schemes to provide assistance to those who require relocation for work I believe. If not, there should be such a...

Today's Allegro's results: https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/ku/events/mccallegro--37/pairings

Sorry. My wrong. It's just that given the disparity between Smirnov's and Illingworth's Olympic performances I do not see objective reasons (e.g....

Here are the round 4 results, with Leon maintaining his half-point lead on 3.5/4, followed by 6 players on 3/4. Just in case anyone is curious about...

Hi All, Great day today. 4 wonderful rounds. Here is the draw for round 5. No Name Loc Total Result Name Loc ...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1052710045375295488.html KB is this guy any good?

Michael's theory does tend to fall to the ground when his 'facts' are corrected - Illingworth is Smirnov's clubmate and has never been Rogers'...