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Board 11 one of the players has not turned up yet, board 14 is being its typical self...
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"
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i'll take that back. Board 14 has just sprung into life and is working! The marvels of modern technology...
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"
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Donald Holmes has had to withdraw from the Championship on medical grounds.
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that's terrible news, he was going so well, highest scoring Scot!
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Andrew McHarg Wrote:Why is Jacob's game a draw? Barely started... !
Because playing nine long games in nine days is very tiring, because a draw against a player of Rukh's calibre is a decent result, because he perhaps wasn't totally jazzed about his position out of the opening and because there's quite a lot of money at stake here so you can forgive them for jockeying for position.
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Filler needed today to play in the Championship, as strong as possible to play a GM
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Well done Graeme Nolan for stepping in today, no a bad filler player! Enjoying Sengupta-Aagard game, haven't a clue how much is theory but some tricky stuff.