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Due to the ANZAC Day Weekender, there will be no MCC Allegro this Saturday (24 April).

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Australia's highest rated Member of Parliament (as in highest chess rating) makes the news: ...

We have 58 current entries to the ANZAC Day Weekender. Given the current MCC capacity, we may have only around a dozen places left, so enter soon if...

We will be accepting entries up to just before the start of round 1, so expect the pairings to be determined after that.

Below is a list of current entries. It is still possible to enter late up until the pairings for round 3 (subject to MCC's capacity limit). ...

Email to FIDE Tour Groups I’m trying to sell the idea of a tour group from Australia to the next combined Corporate and traditional Olympiad. ...

Many events have cash prizes for juniors. Trophies are not an incentive for most teenagers these days.

Russian soldiers when conquering Berlin during the massive terrible retribution by Russian soldiers on German women (rape and abuse with instruments...

I prefer we bring in big strong Tongan fruit pickers in than OS students with no experience or suitability who are just chasing visa extensions. We...

“Bell's Life... was a group of newspapers produced in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century based upon the English publication Bell’s Life in...

“The Chess Player's Chronicle, founded by Howard Staunton and extant in 1841–56 and 1859–62, was the world's first successful English-language...

No they weren't. This is the list again, I most recently posted it on this thread on 26 February this year, ie less than two months ago! Why do you...

When will we know pairings for round one starting tonight?

A kind of a "fun fact" ... As far as I know, Boris Gulko is the only player who has won both the Soviet and the USA Championship. He is the only...

I think Caruana will win the candidates, he will beat MVL in round 8 to get off to the best restart of the event. Nepo and Giri will draw.

OK - just asking. I did think, after all, that some rule(s) only allowed minors to win prize money at chess tournaments where adults where adults can...

No, we don't take them all, we take the people who are fleeing because their lives are under threat and they need a place of refuge.

I am sure the growth has been massively celebrated by the Uyghurs.

Reasons listed above on this thread were mainly health related. I never claimed that people should be forced into jobs that are medically not fit to...

I agree that 3d world counries are always less Safe than the first world countries but it gives no reason for us to accept people just because they...

That makes Chinese people happy with China...while we are so worried about them being ''unhappy''. I trust we solved all of our problems and now try...

Kaspersky - the founder of Kaspersky Lab is quite a decent player too.

Whether there was prize money or not, it had little to do with the age of the players I believe :).

I assume prize giving was just 1st, 2nd, 3rd? Was there not meant to be prize money because only minors are allowed to play?

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So that makes genocide OK then, does it?

At Post #1142 you said: Now you say: As you now agree that Damascus is not safe, then clearly it would be a breach of the...