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Girls' Interschool, 1997

Written by David Cordover on 11th Jul, 1997

Anastasia Clendinnen – Kerry Tse
Girls’lnterschool, 1997

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nf6 Black plays the knight to f6 to counter
attack the White pawn at e4 rather than protect e5 with
2 … Nc6. This is called the Petroff Defence.

Tell me, Thilini

Written by David Cordover on 11th Jul, 1997

One up and coming journalist has stepped forward and written a short article for the VJCL Newsletter. Keep your eyes open in the papers for her name, 13-year-old Catherine Kladakis was the winner of the “Herald-Sun” Junior Journalist competition with an article about David Cordover.

How do ratings work?

Written by David Cordover on 11th Jul, 1997

Many people have been asking me tricky questions about the ratings system. It is not just a random number which I pull from thin air that determines your strength, but rather a complex statistical formula. And for those of you who can’t even pronounce what I just wrote, then you need not read on.