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Skilling Final. Carlsen v So START 5pm
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- Written by sjb
- Category: Club Infos
The Final of the Skilling Champions Chess Competition is starting at 5pm on Chess 24.
There is a choice of 4 different Commentary Channels.
I can play
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- Written by Jim Wiseman
- Category: Club News
I can play
by Jim Wiseman
"I can play," but Andrej said
"You may prefer another instead.
My game of late has not been good
Choose someone better if you could".
"For a GM to become
Go lose a thousand games, say some.
So, Andrej, worry not" said Kee
"You know that what will be will be. "
Now Sanjoy upped and had his say,
"Poor form will pass but class will stay...
Though can I talk of Class when bred
In low-life, rough-edged Birkenhead?"
Then Lee chipped in, he thus assumed,
"Poor me it seems that I am doomed.
If class doth stay, then to my cost
The same is true when Class is lost!"
Webb rounded on Lee's tale of woe
With acid tongue he laid him low
Fired bullets with a smoking gun,
"You cannot lose what's ne'er been won!"
Pretty harsh but such is life
Webb's turns of phrase cut like a knife
But in the end, Yes you've guessed,
They're only words Tom speaks in jest
MCA Online Tournament 20/21
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- Written by Klopp
- Category: Club News
The MCA Tournament begins tonight at 19h30, all the games can be followed live on Lichess. Links to all the players can be found on the MCA Website. 13 teams will be involved.
Good luck to everyone and a big thank you to Martin Blasczyk for organising this.
DAVID DOMINIC HURLEY
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- Written by Jim Wiseman
- Category: Club News
DAVID DOMINIC HURLEY
(17th February 1959 – 23rd October 2020)
EPITAPH
David Hurley sadly passed away during the early hours of October 23rd 2020 following a diagnosis of inoperable stomach and bowel cancer which he learned of some 12 months ago. On learning of his illness, David accepted it very much in the way he dealt with his life in general. That is to say he fully took on board the consequences of both his diagnosis and prognosis but, within those limits, maintained a refreshing optimism for maximising what time he had left in this world rather than, as he put it himself, ‘… simply roll over and die’. Unfortunately, Fate would deliver a further cruel blow and the Covid19 pandemic sadly curtailed many of the things he planned to do. However, even that did not daunt his spirit and he continued to revise his plans to get the most out of the life he had left.
I first met David back in October 1984 when we both enrolled as mature students at Liverpool University. I had seen him in the early philosophy seminars but first met him face-to-face in Blackwell’s Bookshop. His first words to me were ‘You flash Bastard!’ in response to my saying I had read Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason. And with that passing comment a friendship was struck. We moved from the book shop to the Augustus John pub, got pretty drunk drinking beer, playing pool and, from that moment on, never looked back.
To those who know David, it should come as no surprise that I took to him as quickly as I did. It is a fact that he is funny, clever, kind, generous and an absolute master of original one-liners! A mutual friend of ours once said, “All my mates are characters. and have a spark that is missing in others!”. David had both of these qualities (and more) in spades.
It has been a pleasure to have known David and an honour to have been counted among his friends. Like all who have known him, he will be sorely missed.
David, may you rest in peace.
4NCL Online Season 2, Division 1, Round 4
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- Written by Martin Blasczyk
- Category: Atticus@4NCL
Atticus A -v- Blackthorne Russia 2½ - 1½
Redmond, John P. (2335) ½ - ½ Gormally, Daniel W (2522)
Kennaugh, Charles W (2249) 1 - 0 Bates, Richard A (2470)
Kee, Steve (2147) 0 - 1 Taylor, Adam A (2267)
James, David J (2140) 1 - 0 Varney, Zoe (1997)
4NCL Online Season 2, Division 4, Round 4
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- Written by Martin Blasczyk
- Category: Atticus@4NCL
Wessex Some Stars C -v- Atticus B 2 - 2
Pentakota, Rajasekhar (1997) 0 - 1 Rothwell, James P (1870)
Weatherlake, John P (1975) 1 - 0 Banerjee, Sanjoy K (1720)
Krawczuk, Michael J (1967) 1 - 0 Wadsworth, Mark S (1690)