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I know this is a bit of an old topic now but I just had an idea that is the best of both worlds - why not do monthly grades for under 18s and leave the rest to be 6 monthly, then we could also do away with the guesstimate ratings for juniors and be able to use whatever their current rating for calc...

....The Scottish elo system has been updated on a weekly basis for some years, and congress results are posted within a day or two, often before entrants get home, and graded within a fortnight at most.. My local Glasgow League results are processed very rapidly as well, often on the league website...

For example, players positioning the King Kc3 to Ke4 will often be recorded as a final move, which in fact is just the positioning of the Kings to record the result. How does the sensory software know that Ke4 has been placed by an arbiter, rather than played? Easy enough if it's not a legal move, ...

Minor point: I wonder how Chess24 manages to record 117...Ke4 as being played? Aren't all games drawn once it's down to bare kings? Ever since they were first designed, DGT boards have had the feature that you indicate results by putting kings on the central squares. You might think they had devise...

Now more than a week after the championships have finished, I notice that (unlike previous years) none of the games have been published for any of the five day tournaments (i e. Morning Open & below) or the weekenders. Was this a deliberate policy change or just finding that there wasn't enough res...

Replacement bus service from Preston to Blackpool at the moment due to electrification work on the line I did think of playing this year and got as far as researching train times. That was when I found the train was a bus, so I dropped the idea. That was a shame Roger. The brand new buses are a sup...

I am in Tenerife. The weather is a tad warmer than Hastings. But how do I get Chris Ward's live commentary? Hello Stewart Unfortunately, the internet connection at Hastings hasn't proved robust enough to stream video. But we are providing you with more live games than ever before. Best wishes from ...

Carl Hibbard wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 20, 2017 5:51 pm

I have increased the maximum post size to included all the games.

Thanks Carl.

http://api.livechesscloud.com/live/b55b9cf1-4cbc-4aae-1c45-f6d16bb20125 Does anyone know if there's a way to see the DGT board games from earlier rounds? That link to the live boards only displays games from the most recent round (i.e. round 10). A pgn file was sent to the webmaster, I am sure it w...

Thanks to all who responded; it helped inform last night's MCF Council meeting (where we found a new MCF President, which is the best news) If anyone can point me at a fixtures programme that would work out the fixtures, I'd be very grateful; I can see the Berger tables referenced earlier, but they...

My grade has been as follows:-

July 2016 - 123
Jan 2016 - 115
Jul 2015 - 109
July 2011 - 97
July 2008 - 78
July 2005 - 57

If my grade trajectory continues, how ling will it be before I become a GM?

Michael Flatt wrote:Chris's live commentary keeps breaking up. I guess that it must be down to a poor internet connection at the venue.

Correct Michael.

9 Round FIDE Blitz in Leyland Venue: The Holiday Inn Express, M6 (J29), M61 (J9) & M65 (J1) Time Table: Start 7pm, Finish 9:45pm Rate of Play: 3 minutes plus 2 seconds Entry Fee: Advanced £10, Late/On the Day £13 Prizes: 1st Prize £40, 4 rating prizes £25 each Further Information and On-Line Entry: ...

Regarding the incorrect notification of some result at the Varsity Match. The placing the Kings in the middle of the board of a live game to indicate a result is not ideal, especially if performed by players. Whilst it sounds simple, in practice it is flawed, as players can easily put the Kings on t...

Match 3 back up now. Looks like match 4 may follow shortly. Well done to the 4NCL technical team. :D Team? One half is in Gibraltar and if the remaining half was actually an IT Technician, we would have had solved it before the start of the round. Match 4 has been live for a short while, although o...