Comments | jiggery_pokery: A tale of two chess leagues

jiggery_pokery

A tale of two chess leagues

Oct 02, 2007 22:20

If it's Autumn, it's time for the US Chess League season. I took a look at it back in 2005 and last year as well so am pleased to see it rolling along once more this year. When so many start-ups fade and die so quickly, continued existence earns major kudos by itself.

( The US Chess League and chess leagues in the UK. )

chess, uscl

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quintus_marcius October 2 2007, 22:37:26 UTC

except if any of the players are as British as Mickey Adams, as young as Magnus Carlsen or as female as Judit Polgar

Can we add "as erratic as Vassily Ivanchuk"? He also wasn't there, but I console myself with the idea that this was probably good for his health.

jiggery_pokery October 3 2007, 20:07:59 UTC

Turns out that he was only first reserve (by half an averaged rating point - see 2.2) for the Candidates matches to get into the final in Mexico! 2004-5 must have been one of his more, as you say, erratic times. Ah well, he'll be crying into his #2 ranking.

bateleur October 3 2007, 13:13:09 UTC

Great coverage as usual and a particularly fine interview!

Dallas are +3 =2 -0

Ummm... wut? Two minus zero is two, isn't it?

bateleur October 3 2007, 15:07:52 UTC

three wins, two draws and no losses - standard format for chess performance.

bateleur October 3 2007, 15:12:08 UTC

Aha, thanks!

Quite a sensible notation actually, now I'm not trying to read it like arithmetic!

jiggery_pokery October 3 2007, 20:09:30 UTC

Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it. The fact that USCL people haven't been talking about some of the frankly pretty surprising revelations in it so far means that it hasn't completely succeeded in its aims, though. (This surely can't be for a reason as simple as they're all used to blogspot and so don't want to comment anonymously to LJ, can it?)

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ext_66785 November 5 2007, 23:32:07 UTC

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