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Dick Collins played in the Southampton Chess League whilst at University. With his 2000+ games on Britbase, and my current exercise to produce SCL seasons from the Southern Evening Echo, I thought I would tackle the 1964/65 season. Dick played for the University with Mike Lambshire and Peter M Colli...

Am trying to remember how much chess people like McShane, Adams, Short, played as youngsters, though we do live in different times. Adams went pro at 16, certainly only played the majority of this chess in weekend or school holidays before this time, as his father was a school teacher / headmaster....

I did not know Andy Walker, but my condolences to his family. I very much enjoyed his memories of the early grading system, and his time playing county chess. https://www.nottinghamshirechess.org/wp ... _chess.pdf

I think the difference between the examples you have given and the tasks that Graham Stuart and I have described is the source of the information being processed. I won't speak for Graham hereafter but the material I've processed using AI is 100% sent from me. I send it scans of information and ref...

Commentary by GM Simon Williams, WIM Lena Govedarica, WIM Sandra Djukic & WCM Lula Roberts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pvjp-91RNUA

Following on from John Saunder's posts on https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=27&t=15406 I decided to look if I could use AI for producing historic Portsmouth Chess League results. Although the results are recorded on the ECF rating site these do not include the final tables, cross tables or ...

I have played around extracting games into pgn files from Westward Ho! and had some success. Probably not the best file to use, or my suggestion should be refined as was hit and miss with several of the games. I had a look at something which would also be useful to me, extracting newspaper chess lea...

As someone is very wary of AI I had not considered using it for this purpose, but will definitely look at duplicating your process for some of the Hampshire / WECU publications. I am shocked by how bad my IT usage is now, despite working with databases and programming for much of my working life. I ...

I have raised concerns with Barbara Farrar, one of the ECF Gold Members Representatives, about transparency and consistency in the selection of England teams. The concern is not about removing selectors’ judgement or introducing a rigid rating-only system. It is about whether the ECF should investi...

I believe that Iwan Cave who is representing Wales, but has played for Chandler's Ford in the Southampton Chess League since 2022 will have achieved an FM norm (as long as he plays one more game). He has scored 6/8 with his win today. https://s2.chess-results.com/tnr1469895.aspx?lan=1&art=9&fed=WLS&...

Are these his birth registration details? Births Mar 1953 NEWBURY Martin L BROWN Gosport 6b 324 (with acknowledgement and thanks to Free BMD) If so, then he was a year or two younger than the lower end of my estimate! That looks to be correct. Martin was a promising junior. He worked for ONS for ma...

I am sorry to inform the passing of Hampshire chess player Martin Newbury. Martin was a long time Southampton and Portsmouth Chess League player, and most recently played for the Hamble Chess club. Previously Martin had played for Sarisbury Green, British Rail and Passed Pawn in the Southampton and ...

Following on from the post on "Do the ECF have a new policy to demerit the FM Title" https://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15330&start=30 which touched on the National Titles / Master Points System, I looked at the USA Ratings site and the level of data is very impressive. As well as detail...

Genuine question, is the NM title still a thing? Yes - see here: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/master-points-system/ . It is the lowest title we record on the rating system. It is quite popular as it allows players to enter some elite online events (I can't comment on whether they get a discount ...

There are some on Britbase (2006 and 2025). PGN file from the 2006 includes 72 games. https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/brit2000.htm TWIC has some (72 from 2006), could be associated articles in the actual weekly updates (not checked). CB also has some but not checked to see if these are different. N...