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Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Fri Dec 07, 2018 12:23 am

what is the use of Council

An excellent question

Geoff, Increments tend to avoid adjournments which (IMHO) is a good plus point. Increments tend to avoid adjudications which (IMHO) is an even better plus point. The prospect of a third party completing someone else's game is ridiculous. They avoid persons with lost positions flagging their opponent...

Was anyone else impressed (not) by the infantile attitude of the HIGNFY panel towards the match during the Friday, November 30th edition. Pathetic ! I have a good deal of respect of Ian Hislop and Paul Martin (Merton) and Jennifer Saunders. I can only hope that they were forced to talk nonsense by t...

This matter is under discussion in another place

In what direction should one point the bishop's mitre ?

I have worried about this for some time.

I learnt today of the passing of Roy E Ashmore on Sunday, November 24th 2018. His ECF grading code was 105909K Roy was born 18th December, 1935, in Nottingham*, was married in Loughborough* and moved to Hook(?), near Basingstoke. He was a long standing member of Basingstoke Chess Club and played for...

It is that chess is not a visual spectacle easily understood by most people. From a TV viewing figures point of view the problem is the game not the format. Unless you believe the 600 million number is a potential TV audience. How would you characterise the difference in the presentation of Poker o...

The shambles continues. Professional photographer David Llada - his The Thinkers is superb - prevented from taking pictures on stage at the start of today’s game .... whilst amateurs were allowed to snap away with their mobile phones https://twitter.com/davidllada/status/1062014250359681025?s=21 Do...

Also, there is GM Ben Finegold on the Twitch platform.

He is fairly down to earth and easily understood with much humour.

Try https://www.twitch.tv/gmbenjaminfinegold

J.

In game 2 11...Se4 appears to be a TN.

11...a6 was played in Mason - Tambini, British, 2014 which was drawn on move 20.

Was there ever a book "written" by Eric, Raymondo and Sam Sloan ? What would be the subject matter ?

There is a way to turn this around. We have Losers Chess, why not have Cheaters Chess? Each participant is allowed to cheat in any way. If the method of cheating is discovered then the player is disqualified. We would need a counterfeit cash prize large enough to make it worth participating. When I...

Do you have a different edition of the newsletter - the match is mentioned in the opening paragraph, together with a link to other material on the subject. Apologies. I scanned it far too quickly. I looked at the headings only, saw no mention and erroneously concluded. There is a mention in the ver...

Spookily, within a few minutes of posting the excellent ECF Newsletter for November (from Mark Rivlin) has landed.

Lots and lots of items and a mention of the London match in the first paragraph.

Michael, I suspect it runs deeper than that and that a board decision was made on the grounds that the ECF is not directly involved in the organisation or staging of the event. I doubt if Malcolm shares this view but I might be wrong. Does the ECF take any share of the ticket sales ? If I was FIDE /...