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JCB 1 Feb 3:59pm, 1 Feb 2025 5,845 posts	Quote Pin JCB I do 2+1 as well! 🙂 At a much lower rating than my daily 🙀
rhb 1 Feb 6:39pm, 1 Feb 2025 2,523 posts	Quote Pin rhb Yes , I ended up looking into the ratings as I can't get out of the 500's unless I lose a run of games. Reassuringly this is normal in that population it seems. I beat a couple of the 1500 bots lately so I'm confident my play isn't that bad always.
rhb 19 Feb 8:15pm, 19 Feb 2025 2,526 posts	Quote Pin rhb ebay.co.uk
Oranj 19 Feb 8:32pm, 19 Feb 2025 4,443 posts	Quote Pin Oranj smile
JCB 1 Mar 2:44pm, 1 Mar 2025 5,864 posts	Quote Pin JCB Postage is a bit steep? 😉
DaveG 2 Apr 12:27pm, 2 Apr 2025 563 posts	Quote Pin DaveG Is anyone watching Chess Masters on BBC2 on Monday night? I'm interested in what people much better at chess than me think of it. It feels like it's dumbing down for a wider audience of non-chess players, but to unwatchable levels. The programme isn't so much watching people play chess, as watching people watch people play chess. It's a very weird concept which is too centred on reality TV and doesn't actually show you the game. Anyway, I'm averaging around 850 on Chess.com and I'm finding it a lot lower quality of play than I expected. There challenges I'm getting in about 30 seconds but they can't do in 2 minutes - but they feel more like maths puzzles than chess puzzles to me. In the games there's lots of mistakes, and this week someone totally blundered their queen away - that's my style of play and I expected people good enough to get on a chess programme wouldn't do that sort of thing. The players are probably stronger than me, but not at the levels I would have expected for people going on a chess competition on TV. I'm interested in the thoughts of people much better than me about the show.
paulcook 2 Apr 12:38pm, 2 Apr 2025 7,721 posts	Quote Pin paulcook I keep meaning to but haven't yet dived in. You're not selling it (!!!) but will try to get round to it. Similarly I notice POG Champs is back, and while I haven't really watched before, I see England and Palace footballer Eberechi Eze is one of the contenders this year.
Nadders (aka monsenb1) 2 Apr 7:52pm, 2 Apr 2025 2,247 posts	Quote Pin Nadders (aka monsenb1) I have watched the first few episodes (not this week), I do like like David Howell, he has so much knowledge and is able to communicate in a great way, but I agree it is dumbed down to a ridiculous level. Because its chess I still watch it though..
JulesR 2 Apr 9:18pm, 2 Apr 2025 32,542 posts	Quote Pin JulesR This review of the 1st episode made me giggle: https://youtu.be/N1LJv24EiM4?si=2g_9FI1MUAKxRVIj
BrianJ 3 Apr 12:11am, 3 Apr 2025 1,603 posts	Quote Pin BrianJ I need to catch up on these, but seeing David always reminds me of when I lost to him in a county match when was he was nine....