Monthly Archives: February 2012
For Your (UK) Diary
A reminder that the next Richmond Rapidplay (no. 100!) takes place in just over a week, on Sunday March 11th. Please come and help us celebrate the 100th event (and the final one run by us). A special …
Elo (03/12) List for England
The top twenty Englishmen in the International Rating List: M Adams 2735 (+11), ND Short 2697 (+20), LJ McShane 2691 (-), GCB Jones 2635 (-18), MD Sadler 2633 (-27), DWL Howell 2614 (+11), N Pert …
Bundesliga 2011/12
Germany. After seven of the fifteen rounds in the Higher League, the leading teams are OSG Baden-Baden 6/7 ahead of Werder Bremen, SG Solingen and SC Eppingen all of whom have 5.5. Anand and Carlsen, …
Fairy First (1)
Serieshelpmate Black plays a sequence of n consecutive moves (White not moving at all) until at the end of that sequence White can mate in one. Check may be given only on Black’s last move. …
Correspondence Chess (02/12) by Kenny Harman
S Howell-v-T Halliwell, British Ladies Correspondence Ch. 2010/11. Nimzo-Indian, Classical E34 [Harman] 1 d4 e6 2 c4 Nf6 3 Nc3 Bb4 4 Qc2 d5 Or 4…d6 5 Bg5 Nbd7 6 e3 Qe7 7 Nge2 [7 …
