ShaggysBeard

cols407 beats pleslie999 by resignation. Very surprised by some of the moves played, very unlike the few times we've played in the past.

cols407 beats RBWatson by resignation. 4 consecutive wins, credit to the lads for turning the season round.

It is yeah. Slowly realising how to play the daily games, I think I just needed to stop giving in to the temptation of going for the cheap tricks to try and win early that I had picked up from YouTube.

cols407 beats mackieboz by checkmate. Managed to win the queen early on but was still a hard fight, the queen advantage eventually winning through. Good game.

cols407 beats DieHardDoomhammer by resignation. My attempt to fork the king and queen went unnoticed to gain the advantage and managed to keep control thereafter. Easily my best performance of a turgid season.

6 slices is the correct answer. I use a pizza cutter but this scissors business intrigues me, will be trying this next time. I am concerned about my toppings falling off using scissors though.

Good game, enjoyed that format for a change, never knew it was a thing. Always a good learning experience playing the top guys.

You get managers who will step away from the coaching and let their coaching staff take care of training sessions while managing from a distance and others who are very hands on in terms of the coaching. Stevie Crawford seemed insistent on being head coach rather than manager at the start, different titles kind of defines style to effectively the same role.

Some OTT responses to being linked with Peter Grant. His CV doesn't scream success but he's a coaching manager and I would be interested to see what he could do having players full time and not just a couple of nights a week. No-one realistic stands out over others for being either awful or overly successful, all a much of a muchness. We're lucky to have a a lot of good players committed for next season already but hopefully someone in place soon, getting to important stage of the close season.

Yeah, seen that fork in the analysis. I knew I was giving the bishop back straight away but valued opening up space around your king over it. Likely the wrong decision, tunnel vision.

cols407 beats GordonS496 by resignation.

He didn't give up a good career to take a big risk to play for his boyhood club. Fans are emotional, players and managers are and have to be professional.

I don't think sentiment is really a thing once a person enters football professionally. Similarly I don't think Stewart Petrie will view the Dunfermline job much differently than any other full time vacancy of a club around the same stature or level, maybe slightly but only slightly.

He certainly wouldn't be my first choice. He's definitely not the fashionable choice but it's undeniable that he still has something to offer a football club. The fact he's a boyhood Raith supporter means absolutely nothing to anyone in the game professionally.

I'd prefer not appointing him but he's massively experienced. While rarely successful, he's also rarely a complete failure. On the flip side, what's to suggest that Stewart Petrie is better placed to be successful at Dunfermline than Craig Levein?

There's no telling what difference Shields would make. Just because he was part of the last management isn't to say having him as head coach wouldn't change things. The board didn't dismiss SC and weren't looking for a change of management, I accept it is a good opportunity to go a different direction though.

Yeah, that makes absolute sense.

Interesting that no mention of Shields yet. I must admit on Tuesday after the news broke I thought Greg Shields could be quite a strong candidate to move up to the head coach role but I have never seen it suggested anywhere else.

I'm sure he's taken a consultancy job somewhere, football related but not directly in the game.

Some sources have this. Guess it's some sort of out of date system they use with the number change. I'm sure BBC even did the other week. Quite disappointed the team isn't pretty much unchanged.

I didn't get a request. I'll set it up.

I'm android and you can when you unselect rated.

The fixtures posted are using chess.com usernames.

Just by chance I sent you an invite for a friendly last night. I'd put random white/black. If it's set up with you as white then great if not just reject it and set one up one with you as white. @GordonS

Fair play, you can have that one.