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Brendan @150. The Div 3 Knights games were uploaded by this morning (Tuesday). For some reason Round 11 is at the top, so you have to scroll down to Rounds 2 and 1 at the bottom. Just above the board there is a Select Game option to click. I was totally lost in Rd 2 but my opponent let me off the hook.

Thanks Paul, I've been clicking on that link but just keep getting a page with CHYBA and ERROR in red - maybe there's a more recent link?

Hi Brendan @152
Yes, link is no good.
Best is to Google 4NCL chess then PGNs/Replays

Click replay for Div 3 Knights (only Rounds 1 and 2 played so far).

Then you can select any game from that division.

Of course you can navigate to any other division, though I haven't checked if all games have yet been inputted.

Pretty solution to this "bonus puzzle of the day":
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2534822&m=38.5

Thanks Geeker, I loved how the Q kept dropping back one square to sustain the checks.

This popped up in my YouTube shorts, it's pretty good...

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Si_7RlqL21Y

Wow, thanks. But I can't decipher the name of the Black player in order to look up the game. White is Nijat Abasov.

The 2 famous catastrophes I recall are:

Zapata-Anand (Anand copied the opening from a published game that had ended in a "prearranged draw", but sadly it was unsound):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lq9dgO12-uk

Christiansen-Karpov (blunder):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1s8GPh1UlQ

Brendan, I found the game (Abasov-Brunello).
It didn't end in the manner shown by Rozman, because Black realized he'd fallen into a trap.

https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=2460238

(see comments there)

More on prearranged draws and perils of blind copying:

https://www.chess.com/article/view/prearranged-draws-and-the-theory-of-openings

(I once spent a silly amount of time researching that 6. Nxf7 sac from Zaitsev-Karpov, stupidly never suspecting it was a bogus game!)

https://www.chess.com/article/view/wanna-buy-brooklyn-bridge

Thanks Geeker, I enjoyed that first one but the second one got a bit too complicated for me and I couldn't follow what was going on.

Have you been watching the European Team Champion, Magnus just sacrificed his Q for 2 minor pieces as black - game ended in a draw but a very exciting one:-)

Have any of you seen the latest from Kramnik, he posted this...

“Some small new piece of statistics, recently noticed, a player had scored 45.5 out of 46 CONSECUTIVE 3 minutes blitz games against approximately 2950 in average rating opposition (few different players) which is equivalent to 3600+ performance in those 46 Consecutive games. I believe everyone would find this interesting (SIC).”

He is talking about Hikaru who, as you can imagine, was quick to respond, calling the accusation "garbage".

Epic Chess does a great job in this video of explaining why he also thinks it's ridiculous...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEXZGnG2wbw