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Why do we always say footballers (or any other people) play chess, they really only know the moves like millions others; playing the game is totally different; I have played football in the past (and other sports) this doesn't make me a footballer; there are some chess players on this forum who I w...

Simon Rogers wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 13, 2020 11:34 pm

Everyone is equal
ALL LIVES MATTER

Have you actually read what some of us have pointed out in regard to »All Lives Matter«?

Here’s a good summary of »All Lives Matter« and its background: https://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2020/06/05/week-in-review-the-fake-equality-of-all-lives-matter Bob is sitting at the dinner table. Everyone else gets a plate of food except Bob. Bob says, »Bob Deserves Food«. Everyone at the table res...

I saw that there were references to it when Tunisia denied a young Israeli girl a visa in order to take part in the World School Championship. After pressure from FIDE, they backpedalled: https://english.alarabiya.net/en/sports/2018/08/05/Tunisia-to-let-7-year-old-Israeli-girl-in-World-chess-tourna...

We can go back and forth on this, but I gave you a quote from the Cambridge dictionary that supports exactly what I said, and I could post a few other reputable sources. I haven't seen you provide a source for your claim that it's the only apodictic definition, and thus it is false, unfortunately. I...

I’m afraid that’s not correct:

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictio ... h/majority

»in an election, the difference in the number of votes between the winning person or group and the one that comes second:
The Democratic candidate won by a narrow/large majority«

We have different definitions of majority: nobody accumulated more votes than Clinton, she was in first place, Trump came second.

Therefore, by your argument, Britain must be even less democratic since our governments rarely win 40% of the vote, never mind 50+% I don’t quite follow. Clinton got more votes than Trump was what I said. How large or small the share is, was irrelevant in this case. It could have been 23% vs. 24%, ...

Tim Spanton wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 07, 2020 6:10 pm

Trump won 46.1% of the vote - a larger share than most UK governments get

Clinton got 48.2% of the vote … proving my statement above that there is no democratic election in the USA, where the majority of votes by the population counts. A country with a system where the minority vote wins.

it could/should read. 2019 Colin McNab 2020 Geoff Chandler (no games, or scores available a dog ate all the paper work.) 2021 Probably Colin McNab again. :D :D Something similar happened to the scores of the German Chess Congress in Cologne 1898: Only 48 games and 4 fragments are available of the 1...

Yes, born in Kazakhstan (I looked it up) That would be Central Asia then, not Eastern Europe. "I want to hear from you one example of systematic racism, but you should find better sources than CNN trash..." Someone who understands racism better than me should translate - "one example of systematic ...

Thanks, updated. Can’t recall where I got this specific rating from, but it was generally a mix of edochess.ca, chessmetrics.com, and what I found online if players have/had a FIDE profile (and then some approximation at times). The 1000 is of course a place holder for unknown ratings or unrated pla...

Thanks for the info, everyone!

The opening Simultaneous Display on Sunday 19th January was given by Anatoly Karpov. In a tremendous tour de force, lasting over 4 hours, he emerged with a score of +25, =4, -0. Details can be found at http://chess-results.com/tnr508591.aspx?lan=1&art=2&rd=1. One of his opponents was called Robert ...

Talk about a fast response! Thanks much, another middle initial to decode, added.