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by Roger de Coverly
Mon Mar 18, 2024 5:41 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Clock Bangers
Replies: 45
Views: 3161

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...
by Roger de Coverly
Mon Mar 18, 2024 2:47 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Clock Bangers
Replies: 45
Views: 3161

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...
by Roger de Coverly
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

Alex McFarlane wrote:
Sun Mar 17, 2024 11:24 am
Arrrrrgh! Clocks facing the wall. How is an arbiter/captain supposed to call flag fall?
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.
by Roger de Coverly
Sun Mar 17, 2024 5:52 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Clock Bangers
Replies: 45
Views: 3161

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...
by Roger de Coverly
Sat Mar 16, 2024 10:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Clock Bangers
Replies: 45
Views: 3161

Re: Clock Bangers

Joey Stewart wrote:
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:57 am
It woke be quite cool to have a digital flag in the new clocks
Which ones are you thinking of? The DGT models flash a literal flag at you when a time check is passed.
by Roger de Coverly
Fri Mar 15, 2024 5:37 pm
Forum: International News
Topic: Reykjavik 2024
Replies: 34
Views: 1900

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...
by Roger de Coverly
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...
by Roger de Coverly
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...
by Roger de Coverly
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...
by Roger de Coverly
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.
by Roger de Coverly
Tue Mar 12, 2024 12:06 am
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3308

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...
by Roger de Coverly
Mon Mar 11, 2024 5:41 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3308

Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Mon Mar 11, 2024 4:45 pm
I would be interested in seeing all four laid out.
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.
by Roger de Coverly
Mon Mar 11, 2024 1:37 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
Replies: 20
Views: 2974

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...
by Roger de Coverly
Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:32 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3308

Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:
Sat Mar 09, 2024 4:25 pm
. Any advance on who captained Oxfordshire in that period?
The place to look can be the SCCU Bulletin where the September edition has a note of the mtach captains.

So in September 1990, the Oxford captain was D Metcalf
https://sccu-chess.com/bulletins/SCCUBu ... 90_195.pdf
by Roger de Coverly
Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:05 pm
Forum: Chess History
Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Replies: 37
Views: 3308

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 ...