Sally Simpson Member since Jan-28-14 "There are two kinds of kibitzers, those that know nothing and those that don't know they know nothing." I'm Geoff Chandler 'Sally Simpson' is the title of my favourite Who song. The Green Pawn? It has nothing to do with chess.com I'm greenpawn over at Red Hot Pawn and when I wrote for the Hibs fanzine in the 70's i went under the name of Green Pawn. If you fancy something different then try this; https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl...

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May-08-25 Vladimir Kramnik    Sally Simpson: <Petrosianic> I have that book as well, yes, it's very good. He does not appear to have thought anything of Kramnik visiting the loo till one of his team planted the seed about what could be happening. My view, for what it's worth, is after the first objection Kramnik ...      May-08-25 Biographer Bistro    Sally Simpson: Let's just go with wiki who have 'Bobby Fischer' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobby... and Samuel Reshevsky https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samue... Be interesting to see Fischer's FIDE card, his I.D. was 2000016 and could be seen in 2006 but the link is now broken. Bobby ...      May-08-25 Randy Miller   Sally Simpson: I'm wondering if this is the same Randy Miller who wrote a chess program for the Atari. https://altairclone.com/downloads/b... Seeing that listing brought back memories of the 70's and 80's when you entered the list of a program printed in a computer magazine. Sometimes ...      May-07-25 Y Kots vs L Stoliarov, 1958   Sally Simpson: Black to play and seeking to cut the chains that are binding. The good guys tells us exchanges is the way to go but this must be done carefully. [DIAGRAM] It is a position where you can go quite deep looking at 20...Ng4 21.Bxe7 Nxe5 22.Bxd8 Nxe3 23.Bf6 and does my Knight on d3      May-07-25 J Metger vs Paulsen, 1888   Sally Simpson: I knew that ending rang a bell. I've seen it before and it was analysed a long time before Averbakh in 1977. Appears Averbakh fell in line with others (making it White to win) because the colours have been mixed up in the past In some cases the names have been swapped as well.      May-07-25 George-Catalin Ardelean   Sally Simpson: George-Catalin Ardelean was Captain George-Catalin Ardelean of the Romanian team in the 2016 Olympiad https://archive.chess-results.com/t... So today he is Captain of the day. Tomorrow it is Horacio Nelson Alvarez Villar The day after that it is James Kirk the day after ...      May-07-25 G Bellingham vs A Rutherford, 1897   Sally Simpson: From Britbase; https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pg... "In the afternoon [of Thursday 24 August] play was suspended in consequence of an exhibition of living chess in the recreation grounds. Mr. Norris, a prominent member cf the local Committee of the Congress and Mr. Overton, ...      May-07-25 British Championship (1905)   Sally Simpson: Time control for this event was 20 moves for the first hour and then 20 moves in each successive hour. (BCM October 1961 page 290)      May-06-25 M Carlhammar vs N Maisuradze, 2008   Sally Simpson: a Double Excelsior!      May-06-25 M Ginsburg vs Dzindzichashvili, 1979   Sally Simpson: <Hi mginsburg> Without vying for a nit-pickers badge a true 'Excelsior' is when a pawn goes from it's starting square to make a promotion in consecutive moves. Not too common in OTB play but your post (Thank You) has given me an excuse to link to M Carlhammar vs N ...

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