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Could bridge be popular? | The Overtrick
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Could bridge be popular? January 3, 2015 at 5:47 am. If you’ve seen the second of the Three Colour trilogy, you will know that ‘White’ has a notable bridge theme. Not surprisingly, it’s a Polish movie. Poland is one of the few? 8211; the only? And now, as we find ourselves in an age where TV is moribund in favour of the Internet, surely capturing an audience for bridge online should be possible. And yet it hasn’t happened. There are lots of reasons why bridge might never have survived over the decades si...
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March | 2011 | The Overtrick
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Archive for March, 2011. Let’s keep the other stuff going, but something about actual bridge too. Some of you asked for a copy of Ian Frank’s book on Searching and Planning as it related to bridge. Here is the original post: Searching and Planning. Ian has now come close to finishing a book on suit combinations:. The introduction starts off:. This book is the definitive reference on Bridge card combinations. It contains. More problems and more solutions than any other book, and it contains no. I wonder i...
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January | 2015 | The Overtrick
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Archive for January, 2015. Could bridge be popular? If you’ve seen the second of the Three Colour trilogy, you will know that ‘White’ has a notable bridge theme. Not surprisingly, it’s a Polish movie. Poland is one of the few? 8211; the only? And now, as we find ourselves in an age where TV is moribund in favour of the Internet, surely capturing an audience for bridge online should be possible. And yet it hasn’t happened. There are lots of reasons why bridge might never have survived over the decades sin...
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October | 2014 | The Overtrick
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Archive for October, 2014. The Italian Blue team talk about what’s wrong with bridge in 2014. It is interesting to read Bocchi’s and Versace’s discussion of the disastrous latest world championships in China. You can read the whole interview here. The sponsorship money the WBF took for this event. Certainly not on the players who voted with their feet. Apparently substantially less than half the usual entry turned up. So, how about it WBF? How about bridge not being a rich person’s game? At the London Ch...
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July | 2014 | The Overtrick
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Archive for July, 2014. Political correctness and female chess players. Hot on the heels of chess base’s report on a highly dubious piece of statistical analysis of female chess players – see here. For the full story – xkcd’s Randall Munroe, normally so reliable, has weighed in with an equally spurious piece of statistical analysis complete with political correct drivel about the nature of ‘women’s chess’. You can see the cartoon here. So, what has XKCD got wrong? July 10, 2014 at 8:16 am. Test Your Posi...
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Australia at the Olympiad | The Overtrick
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Australia at the Olympiad. August 15, 2014 at 4:34 am. Talk about the king is dead, long live the king. The Australian selectors went out on a limb and decided the old vanguard was not the way to go. The 2012 team including the top three boards of the 2014 team: Smerdon, Ly and Illingworth, but rather than Wohl and Solomon (or players of that generation) who went to Turkey, Norway saw instead the debuts of Ikeda and Smirnov. Board 1 GM Smerdon David 2513. Board 2 IM Ly Moulthun 2426. You are commenting u...
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Melbourne Games Coach: Arbiting
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The blog of a Melbourne games coach, covering primarily chess and poker. This page will be used to keep a record of the various chess events that I have acted as an arbiter for. I will endeavour to update this page periodically as required, with details of various events I have run to be included here as well (or at least links to the details). Prior to moving to Melbourne in 2005, I had been an arbiter at a variety of events for the NSWJCL. Primarily the various holiday events held throughout the year.
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Melbourne Games Coach: Guam International Open Part Two
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The blog of a Melbourne games coach, covering primarily chess and poker. Monday, 20 July 2015. Guam International Open Part Two. Just past the midway point of the tournament and as expected, the tournament has turned into a race for third, with Grandmasters Laylo and Torre beating up any challengers, while their own game was a hard fought draw, where neither players held any big advantage during the game before finally ending in an opposite coloured bishop endgame. Away from the chess, there was a BBQ St...
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Melbourne Games Coach: August 2014
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The blog of a Melbourne games coach, covering primarily chess and poker. Tuesday, 19 August 2014. The Olympiad Summary - Being an Arbiter at the Olympiad. The recently completed Chess Olympiad in Tromso, Norway was the first time I had been to the Olympiad and I was there as a Match Arbiter. This meant that each round I was in charge of one match of four games putting two countries against one another. Below is the typical routine of what a Match Arbiter would do at the playing hall:. Once individual gam...
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Melbourne Games Coach: Victorian Chess Festival
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The blog of a Melbourne games coach, covering primarily chess and poker. This page will contain the 'fleshing out' of the ideas presented previously in the Chess Festival Plan. Page, with ideas about how a chess festival could work in practice. Essentially the idea is based on the fact that there is so much chess, or. Be so much chess, in Victoria from November to January. Essentially I see that there are four distinct types of events run during this period, which are the basis for the chess festival idea.
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