English Chess Forum

I believe (though David and others in this thread who are well-versed in this can add more) that Sector Arbiter refers to being in charge of an area within a large team event such as a Chess Olympiad (which is absolutely massive, and has more arbiters than you can shake a stick at). This time the d...

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 ? It is neither of those, but a simple case of the wrong res...

It wasn't intended to be dismissive. I have great respect for the achievements of English (and Welsh and Scottish) arbiters. I was trying to be humourous about how arcane some of the lesser known aspects are, but ended up causing offence. Sorry. Thank you. (Are there category A and category C level...

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:Category B and Category D levels for IA? Who ever knew that?! *eyes glazing over* (sorry!)

You take considerable interest in the titles and norms achieved by English players.

Why are you so dismissive of the corresponding achievements of English arbiters?

By the way, Kirsan is back today, occupying the President's perch but seemingly just an observer. In fact not. He just spoke about someone he has run into who might wish to host an Olympiad. Superficially this is ok, but it is starting to sound like an attempt to wrest 2018 away from Georgia. That ...

?? 4 Title holders, that's enough, no? For some reason I've never understood, all women's titles count for the purposes of non-women's title norms. Alhtough clearly no issue anyway with WGM given that a WGM has met the criteria for FM by default. I think that you are correct on this point. 3 IMs an...

No, he'd need to play an IM in round 7, and Dardania don't have one. Have the rules changed on this at some point? I have some vague memory (and may be confusing with something else) that at one time you only needed to play 2GMs or 3IMs for IM norm purposes (1GM counted as 1.5IMs or something?). Yo...

It was probably a straw poll of those present, rather than a strict Executive Board vote. Not necessarily, Alex Are there really at least 57 people on the EB? I too was surprised, so I looked into it. In fact there are. There are actually 20 people on the Executive Board, five from each of the four...

I travelled to Guernsey yesterday, expecting to be the first player to get there. Within minutes of my arrival, I had met five Dutch players and one other English player. All of them were familiar and welcome faces. I don't think that Kevin's recollection is quite right. The great storm was on the n...

You forgot to mention your dearly beloved FIDE. I would be surprised if FIDE officials are paying much attention to your posts, but I suppose I could be wrong. Nigel Freeman is an avid reader of this Forum. A few years ago a typo in a post of mine made it appear that I thought that Brussels was in ...

I further suggest that the difficulty, in this instance, lies with the lack of communications within the ECF. Alex Holowczak graciously accepted responsibility for that. That would have been the end of the matter had Andrew Zigmond not decided, months later, to make the matter public with the bizar...

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LawrenceCooper wrote:So it may, or may not, apply in this case.

The ECF knows, of course.

I doubt that. I don't think that the ECF has any record of when delisting requests were made.

Voluntary officers come and go, so that sort of thing can happen.

You can find a fair number of examples if you look through this Forum.

Roger de Coverly wrote:I happen to know why, but I had thought that particular piece of ECF vindictiveness had been abolished.

It has, but not all former victims have yet been reinstated.

I have said many times that it's more a problem for organisers and arbiters than for affected players themselves.

It appears the fiasco at Gibraltar happened because she was ignored, or felt she was being ignored. That is her contention. It is strongly disputed by the Gibraltar arbiters. I have been a trenchant critic of Hou Yifan's behaviour in Gibraltar, but I am pleased to have the opportunity to give a dif...