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- Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3165
Re: Clock Bangers
[ 1st team and 2nd team. Everyone is doing the clocks in this way, can't exactly rock the boat when I turn up 5-10 mins before the league match is about to start. Just going to have to let it be. You set all the clocks before the season even starts. On the night you just switch them on and check th...
- Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3165
Re: Clock Bangers
I won't be the only one messing with the clock in my league match. I'll just turn up as normal and use the clock same as everyone else. Not worth the effort It's the club secretary or match captain that would set up the clocks for the season. Once set, they stay that way. Mind you it could be a hea...
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 6:11 pm
- Forum: YCA
- Topic: Your County Needs You! 2023/2024 County Season
- Replies: 13
- Views: 808
Re: Your County Needs You! 2023/2024 County Season
When the 4NCL was at the Birmingham Grand, the room was set out such that boards 1 and 3 were on the same table, then 2 and 4 etc. All clocks with their backs to the wall.Alex McFarlane wrote: ↑Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:24 amArrrrrgh! Clocks facing the wall. How is an arbiter/captain supposed to call flag fall?
- Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:52 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3165
Re: Clock Bangers
After 34 moves it's supposed to add on the extra time but I don't think it adds it until the first lot has run out. (1.25 mins for 34 moves then 20 added). If you read the manual carefully, it can be done to add the time at the right move count for the DGT 2010 model anyway. Arbiters don't like doi...
- Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:36 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Clock Bangers
- Replies: 45
- Views: 3165
Re: Clock Bangers
Which ones are you thinking of? The DGT models flash a literal flag at you when a time check is passed.Joey Stewart wrote: ↑Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:57 amIt woke be quite cool to have a digital flag in the new clocks
- Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:37 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Reykjavik 2024
- Replies: 34
- Views: 1918
Re: Reykjavik 2024
The usual good number of English entrants, including Daniel Fernandez who should be amongst the favourites, and Bodhana being paired with a 2500+ GM in round 1. English participants are at https://chess-results.com/tnr792656.aspx?lan=1&art=25&fedb=ENG&flag=30 Titled players 12 GM Fernandez Daniel H...
- Thu Mar 14, 2024 12:23 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4065
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Should the "PP Hare" be "PD Hare"? I played the latter in the Civil Service League twice in 1995. They could obviously be different people. PD Hare is likely. I played someone of this name in the Marlow Congresses of 1971 and 1973 and then again in a Bourne End v Bedford National Quickplay match in...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3566
Re: Counties and clubs
Barnstaple to Plymouth will be hard to beat, but probably not impossible. 61 miles according to the AA Route Planner. Penzance to Bude is 74 miles, but there doesn't seem to be a club in Penzance itself. In the south, Hastings to Chicester is 65miles, but I think they play in different leagues desp...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 7:37 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4065
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Sorry - don't know how to put it in with a board, so it's just text. Time control reached after move 40. Milton Ioannides was white. 1. e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 e5 c5 4 c3 Nc6 5 Nf3 Qb6 6 a3 c4 7 Nbd2 Bd7 8 g3 f6 9 Bg2 fxe5 10 Nxe5 Nxe5 11 dxe5 0-0-0 12 0-0 Nh6 13 b3 cxb3 14 Rb1 Ba4 15 Nxb3 Nf5 16 Bg5 Rd7 1...
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3566
Re: Counties and clubs
Watford has long played in the Hertfordshire League despite being in the south-west corner of the county, Berkhamsted who are even further west play in the Bucks League. The Bucks League has also acquired Uxbridge in recent years althoigh that can cause problems to visiting players with ageing cars.
- Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:06 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3312
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
But wouldn't have been common to supervise doctoral students as an early career research fellow in the 70s, as JDMN was before he went chess pro. Isn't the story that despite being at Oxford since he was 13 or 14, he was made redundant at the age of around 24 because of funding cuts in the early 19...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:41 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3312
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
John Nunn's thesis is regarded as his least accessible work. Even with a Maths degree, getting beyond the first paragraph or even the first sentance is a struggle.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:45 pmI would be interested in seeing all four laid out.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:37 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 2977
Re: Rapid events with over rated players.
Given that all leagues in the country use the same rating lists and the same rules around rating I wonder if rating, and players out of sequence, could be something which could be standardised between leagues. I would regard the 4NCL rules as a standard in this respect which allow out of order by u...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:32 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3312
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
The place to look can be the SCCU Bulletin where the September edition has a note of the mtach captains.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:25 pm. Any advance on who captained Oxfordshire in that period?
So in September 1990, the Oxford captain was D Metcalf
https://sccu-chess.com/bulletins/SCCUBu ... 90_195.pdf
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:05 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3312
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Surrey were in the Minor Counties Championship then? There was a rule that if you didn't qualify for the big boys event several years running, you could play in the Minor Counties. Bedfordshire were frequent qualifiers by virtue of playing and winning in the EACU whose champion was only allowed in ...