CanBase (parties canadiennes) - mise à jour!

[Hugh Brodie]

Mise à jour pour CanBase - mais seulement 173 nouvelles parties canadiennes - la plupart sont des tournois Internet de C-B. Maintenant 161,159 parties...

[Hugh Brodie]

Canbase has been updated - but only 173 new Canadian games in the last three months (mostly BC Internet tournaments). There are now 161,159 Canadian games....

[Hugh Brodie]

Wikipedia mentions that Elod Macskasy (1919-1990) took part in swimming at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. The reference is to an article by Gordon Taylor written...

[Hugh Brodie]

Please ignore my posts. :-)

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We could have a strong team if all our GM's commit (maybe even Kevin Spraggett and Duncan Suttles?).

[Hugh Brodie]

And in Croatia (including handshakes before and after) - this game was played yesterday (June 29):

https://youtu.be/r779vQ0tzxI
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[Hugh Brodie]

Here's one way to play chess with social distancing...

https://www.schaaksite.nl/?s=westeinder

[Hugh Brodie]

Well - there's the Chesstalk sponsor's strore - Strategy at 3423 St. Denis (metro Sherbrooke).
Others which sometimes have chess books (I can't...

[Hugh Brodie]

The largest multi-section tournament (with all sections running concurrently) was probably the US Supernationals VI in Nashville, May 12-14, 2017. There...

[Hugh Brodie]

I was wondering about the largest single-section tournament (or largest section within a multi-section event).

Anything larger than the...

[Hugh Brodie]

I found some answers to my questions about a couple of short-lived magazines:

"Shakhmaty-in-English": Vol. 1 no. 1: July 1965....

[Hugh Brodie]

I was looking at crosstables from old USSR team championships (of the republics - sometimes called "Spartakiads"). Each of the 15 republics/SSR's...

[Hugh Brodie]

J'essaie encore...
Pour les trois tournois - je peux trouver seulement "Liens vers les parties de la 5e ronde" - rien pour les autres...

[Hugh Brodie]

Je peux trouver quelques parties - mais existe-elle une fichier PGN avec TOUTES les parties du chaque tournoi, avec les VRAIS NOMS dans la fichier?...

[Hugh Brodie]

Non - pas des parties simultanées, ni par correspondance, ni par ou contre ordinateur, ni des parties blitz (sauf un tournoi complet).....

[Hugh Brodie]

Je veux faire une mise à jour pour "CanBase" (base de données des parties canadiennes) le 1 juillet - mais j'ai seulement 200 nouvelles parties...

[Hugh Brodie]

I was planning to do an update to CanBase (database of Canadian games) on July 1, but with so few new games collected in the past three months (200 at...

[Hugh Brodie]

Too fast! He led an interesting life, but I never really got a chance to talk to him about it.

Here's a link to the wedding photo, and a...