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Roger de Coverly
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by Roger de Coverly » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:30 am
The government are proposing to test their emergency warning system on 23rd April by sending an alarm to mobile phones.
https://www.gov.uk/alerts
If the phone is switched off completely, it will remain silent.
Or at least that's what it says.
https://www.gov.uk/alerts/how-alerts-work
You will not receive alerts if your device is:
turned off or in airplane mode
connected to a 2G or 3G network
wifi only
not compatible
Emergency alerts work on:
iPhones running iOS 14.5 or later
Android phones and tablets running Android 11 or later
If you have an earlier version of Android, you may still be able to receive alerts. To check, search your device settings for ‘emergency alerts’.
So it's a warning to all players in the several Congresses taking place that weekend.
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NickFaulks
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by NickFaulks » Thu Mar 30, 2023 9:54 am
It is ( for now ) possible to disable these intrusions through the phone settings.
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John Upham
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by John Upham » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:20 am
This could provide an interesting diversion to the Mike Basman Memorial tournament!
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Joey Stewart
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by Joey Stewart » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:24 am
If every phone went off simultaneously during a tournament I'm pretty sure the organisers would have to let it slide otherwise there would be no way of knowing whose was whose, everyone would be claiming it was their opponents but not their own and it would be absolute pandemonium.
Lose one queen and it is a disaster, Lose 1000 queens and it is just a statistic.
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NickFaulks
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by NickFaulks » Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:34 am
John Upham wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 10:20 am
This could provide an interesting diversion to the Mike Basman Memorial tournament!
Yes, it had occurred to me that Mike, with his intense dislike of state controls, would be the first to oppose this development.
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Tim Spanton
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by Tim Spanton » Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:22 am
I received one of these alerts, in German, while playing in Bad Wörishofen earlier this month. There was a follow-up alert a few seconds later in English, explaining it had been a test.
My previous experience of this was in Poiana Brașov last year, when I received real alerts - not test ones - about bear(s) being spotted in the street where I was staying. I had to turn my phone off at night to stop myself being wakened in the early hours by the loud claxon-sound of the alerts.
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John Upham
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by John Upham » Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:48 am
Tim Spanton wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 11:22 am
My previous experience of this was in Poiana Brașov last year, when I received real alerts - not test ones - about bear(s) being spotted in the street where I was staying.
By coincidence I was there also and managed to snap this image of the bears (the one on the right is called Geoff):
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MJMcCready
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by MJMcCready » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:28 pm
In what sense is this meant to be important?
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John Upham
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by John Upham » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:33 pm
MJMcCready wrote: ↑Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:28 pm
In what sense is this meant to be important?
The sixth
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David Williams
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by David Williams » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:36 pm
I'd never heard of this. If you had delayed posting it for two days I would have been very confident it wasn't true.
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MJMcCready
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by MJMcCready » Thu Mar 30, 2023 12:39 pm
Not sure I get it. Sounds very much like a first-world problem of no real significance.
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Matt Mackenzie
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by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Mar 30, 2023 3:09 pm
It may be of interest to some who intend to play competitive chess on that day. If you don't, no biggie.
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by Richard Bates » Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:08 pm
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Rich Wiltshir
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by Rich Wiltshir » Thu Mar 30, 2023 7:17 pm
Hats off to Roger for posting this.
Please give a thought to those who feel the need for a concealed phone
I've no expertise in identifying those who might be suffering or causing such oppression, but let's stand up to controlling bullies in all their manifestations. Don't be a bystander.
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End of rant.
Many of the clubs that I loved have a vibrant anti-bullying environment.
Who knows, I might pop along again one day.
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Neville Twitchell
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by Neville Twitchell » Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:55 pm
An abomination on St Georges Day (and Tony Miles birthday).