<crawfb5> was nice enough to send me the complete set of ICCF WC01-25, i.e. the correspondence World Championship Finals. These are tournaments that take at least a year, and sometimes almost 10 years to complete. The lastest is WC29, started in 6/20/2015 (or 2015.06.20). They are RR’s, and can be played either via mail (aka…

We begin with a 2002 quote from Donald Rumsfeld, former Secretary of Defense of the US : Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say…

  Let’s begin by listing all 30 of the games, as the last 5 are often not included since Alekhine won back his title by winning the 25th game on Tuesday, 1937.12.07. >>> for g in TG[t]: print `g`, ” “, g.GameSite 1937.10.05 D17 50 (R1) 1-0 Euwe, Max — Alekhine, Alexander The Hague NED…

# ——————————————– # def stub( t, w, b, r=”?”, result=”*” ): # ——————————————– def stub( t, w, b, rnd=”?”, result=”*”, comment=”” ): ”’    stub( tid, w_pid, b_pid, rnd=”?”, result=”*”, comment=”” ) — generate stub game Note: w, b are input as pid’s, maybe someday we can allow names too.    ”’ tag = { “Event” :…