Fixture-Plan for 2018/2019
Week-No. | Monday | Friday | Remarks | Division 1 | Division 2 | Division 3 | Division 4 | 440-League | 600-League | ...
Week-No. | Monday | Friday | Remarks | Division 1 | Division 2 | Division 3 | Division 4 | 440-League | 600-League | ...
New Developments of your MCA Web Project
With the end of the season 207/2018 I took the chance to merge both our websites. The reason we had two websites was that the old Chess League Manager...
European Amateur Championship 3 games Update
First Saturday Jun 9 games New
Cyprus Closed Championship 57 games
29th NATO Championship 25 games
Greek Cup Team (Quarter Final) 4 games
23rd...
Armenian chess grandmaster Levon Aronian was named a leading player of the Grand Chess Tour 2018 tournament being held in Leuven, Belgium.
Women's World Championship Match 2018 took place in Shanghai/Chongqing, China from 2nd of May 2018 to 20 of May 2018.
Official website: china2018.fide.com
Ju Wenjun became the new Women`s World Champion!
Those of you know your computer chess well can help me with this: I know that increasing an engine's "contempt factor" will make it less likely to accept a draw or to go down a path that will lead to a forced draw (presumably including tablebase draws).
Those of you know your computer chess well can help me with this: I know that increasing an engine's "contempt factor" will make it less likely to accept a draw or to go down a path that will lead to a forced draw (presumably including tablebase draws).
It's rapid & blitz time in the chess world, as not one, and not two, but three elite quick-play events transpired today.
Team Blitz and Lightning
Ilford CC - Sunday 1 July 2018
The Entry Form for the above events is published. Synopsis below, see Entry Form for full details.
Team Blitz - R1 10.00 am - For Clubs
Teams of four...
Congratulations to the Komodo team, which has not only qualified for the season 12 superfinal but even won the qualifying stage, half a point ahead of defending champion Stockfish! Stockfish went undefeated in the qualifier and went +1 in its eight-game mini-match against Komodo...
No time this week for detailed blogging - sorry - so I'll just offer a quick update on Leuven, the first stop on this year's Grand Chess Tour, and then on TCEC.
One of India's top women chess players has pulled out of an upcoming championship in Iran in protest at having to wear an Islamic headscarf.