12/21/2023 0 Comments Old stodge chess opening movesI'd ask if it was possible to sit it out, I'm being honest here, my repertoire is all gambits, sacs, two moves traps and hope. I'd be more upset being the sole loser in a 2½-1½ loss costing the team a medal than losing a norm.īut if it was a GM norm (a super hypothetical case - me getting a GM norm) for a team heading for a mid-table finish I was picked to play for a team not to get a norm, if the situation was we were in with a chance for a medal than I have a feeling they would be overjoyed as without me they might actually win a few matches. Good Question, see the question I've asked at the bottom of this post. I ask my team mates if I can sit out the four games.you ask what happens when they say 'No!' I am 100% guaranteed a last round draw but there are four rounds to go before I get there. In this hypothetical case let's set the scene. What you have just written also fits BoJo (for it is, indeed, he) like a glove. Must admit I was very tempted to draw parallels with a certain very prominent UK politician in that previous post. So the story of Ray Keene, from Nice (or earlier) up to today, is also the story of English chess, and it's not a flattering one: and that's basically why it unsettles some people to have it told, and why they would like it forgotten. They tell a story about themselves, of course they do, but they also shed light on the society in which they operate, and which to a greater or lesser extent lets them get away with it. That's the thing about any figure whose misconduct is spread over a long period of time. It's not that they don't see, it's that they prefer not to look. But ultimately he isn't lovable, he's quite unpleasant and some of what he's got up to is quite serious and nasty, and the kid gloves aren't a result of what he's done as such, they're a result of the habits of the people who don them. There's something in that, at least in so far as he's funny in his way, whereas his cronies and suck-ups aren't. He clearly didn't give a rat's arse either way. I remember talking to Bill about the whole not-being-a-GM thing. With regard to Hartston not becoming a GM, the interview that Geoff linked to earlier Ray got awarded the title on the last day after his pre-arranged draw with Andersson. The real truth, though, was that Miles had qualified for the title some time before the Olympiad and was only waiting for formal ratification (people in that kind of limbo used to be called GM Elects. This is technically true in that they were both awarded the title at Haifa. The back cover of Becoming a Grandmaster implies that he got the title at the same time as Miles. Seems odd that Hartston never got the title, given that he was of almost equal strength maybe he didn't manipulate the Olympiads enough!
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