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Gareth T Ellis wrote:It's been a long time since I last saw the ECF's figures.

Perhaps you will be invited the April 2018 Finance meeting ?

Apparently, and this is news to me, WL was allegedly the first player to be described as a Grandmaster of the game. Maybe they meant Grand Master?

Anyone know more about this ?

Forgive me for being dim but do we know the reason for the 1-0 in the game

Sedgwick - Dilleigh ?

Black looks to have a minimal edge where the result is given as 1-0.

Is this a mobile telephone default or fire alarm incident of some nature ?

Courtesy of the UTU Swiss Results Service we can bring you all the results for the various sections as follows : Under-8 : http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/TournamentPage.aspx?Tournament=cb9978dc-d99c-435f-99e8-a5c8a325bf87 Under-10 : http://results.utuswiss.co.uk/TournamentPage.aspx?Tournament=4065b34...

The 50th Berkshire Junior Chess Championships take place this coming Saturday (October 14th) at The Abbey Junior School, 30 Christchurch Road, Reading, Berkshire RG2 7AR :D 10 am Start 5.30 pm Prize giving Sections (Ages 31st Aug 2017) Beginners, U/10, U/12, U/14 & U/18 Sections Open to All Juni...

Fixtures for the 2017 - 2018 season are available from the Thames Valley Chess League League Management System at

http://www.thamesvalleychess.org.uk/


As usual if you wish to import all of the fixtures in one go for

A team
A Club
A Division
A League

then you may do so.

John

Steven DuCharme wrote:All random pairing tournaments

Very satirical !

David Frost eat your heart out.

Matt Mackenzie wrote:Wasn't he a tall b***er? And of fairly aristocratic heritage which of course fits the "other" meaning.

I don't think JHD was ever a butler unlike Reg Varney.

Butler was not well liked by Stephen Lewis.

Matt Mackenzie wrote:Didn't he talk down to everybody, god bless him?

He looked down upon Ronnie Corbett but up to John Cleese.

Not so sure about Ronnie Barker ?

I recall being talked down to by Jan Hein Donner try as I might to avoid that.

I think the issue with being a Gold member rep is the challenge in doing the role what I would consider 'properly'. If you don't actively canvass views to represent then it's just a bit of an ego boost to the individual. If you are serious about canvassing views then it's a lot of time and effort -...

Robert Bellin should be Robert Cecil Bellin Mike Surtees is Michael J Surtees Stuart Conquest is Stuart C Conquest Neville Gill is Neville BK Gill Dan Mayers is Dan E Mayers John G Nicholson is John Graham Nicholson Simon JB Knott is Simon John Bradley Knott Neil McDonald is Neil R McDonald Luke McS...

Matt Mackenzie wrote:Unbelievably, 1 d4 g5?!? has been played a fair few times according to databases - on occasion with success

In the same vein perhaps

1. h4 f6 2 c3 a5 has been played with success ?

Angus French wrote:I believe Jon Griffith wrote the web interface to the grading database and is the person to ask: jon@chessnuts.org.uk.

Also, I would guess someone must have have written something, with a web interface, to query data in an html table and present the result in html...

Yes, indeed they have !

Fixtures for the 2017 - 2018 season are available from the Berkshire Chess Association League Management System at http://www.berkshirechess.org.uk/ :D As usual if you wish to import all of the fixtures in one go for A team A Club A Division A League then you may do so. John, Secretary, Berkshire Ch...