Commentary

Possibly under the influence of their New Year’s Celebrations, the games were shorter today, but still hard-fought. On board 1 the game Zhao – Lagarde was highly complex. Black went badly wrong. At one stage he had a complex fantasy variation which Chris Ward explained, […]

Most games were quite long today. Perhaps people felt they should give it their all in the last game of the year. This was the last round players from the bottom half of the pairings expect to be chopped up by the Accelerated Swiss System. […]

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A few details. We have 10 women competing in the Masters, nearly 10%. There are 28 federations represented. I hadn’t realised Chris Ward’s commentaries had come onstream until nearly the end of the broadcast. So my remarks lack substance. I came across the Round 1 […]

– from Stewart Reuben Sadly my health has broken down. I have just today been given the all-clear by my doctor about recovery from pneumonia. Thus I won’t be coming to Hastings and my comments are from afar and somewhat fragmented. But before moving onto […]