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Disinformator™ 41
18 Dec 11 — For those of you unable to make it the Cowley Blitz on Monday 19 December or are just too unconcerned about the fate and future of world chess to order your own copy, here's the next instalment in the Disinformator series. Written while the live commentary on McShane – Kramnik was in full flow in Round 8, the editorial board decided to provide all 201 games considered and to pack the pages with photos, diagrams, blunderama and the occasional directional arrow. Next year we may have to write this mag in November, and hope that Santa doesn't mind. |
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2011, Weekend 1
18 Nov 11 — An excellent start to the season for all bar Oxford 3, who simply played well but not quite well enough to secure points. An overall 50% weekend, with Oxford 2’s perfect 2/2 counterbalancing Oxford 3’s perfect other score. They say that the season is a marathon, not a sprint – although why Kieran went to Marathon for a sprint is yet to be fully tapped out – but we’ve made some progress towards the right end of the table. |
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Weekend 4
31 Mar 11 — As another weekend of fun and fantasy concluded at the Twin Towers called Daventry and Staverton, Oxford 1 waved goodbye to its championship hopes, but not before the closest shave of an edge away from qualifying for the top group with a performance against Guildford ADC that board-for-board was the best chess I’ve seen online (if not quite live) in some time. Meantime, Oxford 2 threatened to win both their matches at the weekend, but found ways of reining themselves back into draws on both days. |
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Weekend 3
1 Feb 11 — A tremendous weekend for the teams, with everyone scoring something – 50% for the Oxford 1 and 3, and 75% for Oxford 2. Read Sean's report. |
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Another frenetic weekend’s activity
31 Jan 11 — … from the lads at the 4NCL sees the firsts more or less hold their own with 50%, the seconds squeak a draw on the Saturday before winning on Sunday to be in with the leaders on 7/8 after round 4, and Oxford 3 … well, trying their best, I suppose, without luck. Not content with all of this we managed an AGM and I’m sure you’re all dying to read the minutes, so we’ll leave you to it. |
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Disinformator™ 40
2 Jan 11 — Those of you wondering what that shuffling scuffing sound near the chimney amounted to around Christmas probably need to check out this link to Disinformator™ 40, produced by night and emailed by reindeer just before all means of escape from England (roads, train, airport) were closed by snow – but not before the rated reindeer could gasp that anyone would want something so slim in their Christmas stocking… … |
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New season kicks off
25 Nov 10 — “It was midwinter and the fires were warm, and while the less-than-young brigade were watching the Ashes on freeview webservers, trying earnestly to remember when they’d seen such a potent mixture of fuzzy clarity, technical error and hopeless misjudgement, it seemed completely unprecedented … until, that is, someone remembered the first round of the 2010 4NCL at Daventry.”Sean’s report from the 2-hotel Daventry scene features diagrams that have no flash photography whatsoever, but the occasional flash move. |