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I live in West Bromwich West, which has been Labour for just about as long as suffrage has been extended far enough to give the working class the vote. The only exception was when Betty Boothroyd was Speaker. I can't imagine any "normal" scenario where Labour wouldn't win the seat in West Bromwich ...

There is of course the other common battleground in English chess, which is that independent organisations in general would rather the ECF bugger off and leave them to it, and not interfere with their events. There is no evidence to suggest that the issue is any different from all the other issues ...

If there were procedures and protocols which people could follow if they had concerns, there would be little justification for open discussion on this or any other Forum. There should be potential for a discussion on methods. To clarify, I was suggesting that allegations against specific individual...

I would suggest that most of the speculation has been extremely far from flippant. This is a serious issue. The episode demonstrates once again that the ECF are about a decade late in introducing proper Anti Cheating Regulations. If there were procedures and protocols which people could follow if t...

"Petrosian 4-3 Hübner" Was that the one where Hübner resigned the match rather than play on two bad adjourned positions? I have always thought those games should have been scored (and rated) as losses, making the score 6-3. No, that was Hübner's match against Korchnoi in the 1979 - 1981 cycle. http...

Chris Rice wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:48 am

Personally I think [that Dvorkovich has] done a good job so far

I presume that you are not a regular user of the FIDE website.

I'm sure Jon Ashworth could help out with suitably convincing arguments . As not everyone will click on the link. please could I make it clear that the reference is to John Ashworth the Labour politician. NOT to his namesake John Ashworth, Chief Executive Officer of Caplin Systems, the new sponsors...

I'm sure Jon Ashworth could help out with suitably convincing arguments . As not everyone will click on the link. please could I make it clear that the reference is to John Ashworth the Labour politician. NOT to his namesake John Ashworth, Chief Executive Officer of Caplin Systems, the new sponsors...

If you wish to do it, you introduce a regulation requiring players to keep their scoresheets for four weeks (say) and submit copies to the organiser on request. Supposing the game is analysed and shows an unusually high correlation with computer moves, what then? You've got evidence that cheating m...

So what to do about Mr Lovelock and his magic hat? I'd imagine they will be in action again this evening in a Highcliffe A v Ringwood away fixture. 17 wins, 2 draws and counting in standard play in the last 3 months. January standard rating will be over 200 for sure. Surely the first thing that you...

On day 1, there was a bit of worry within some of the arbiting team that the players would be upset with the scanning, but actually they all support it and were very polite and accommodating. For example, Danny Gormally and Keith Arkell are both outspoken about cheating, and so are very supportive ...

Isn't that axiomatic, since at female only tournaments you can just get female titles? That's not right. You could get norms in tournaments with three full GMs and two other titled players, even if they were all women. More relevantly, the Women's World Champion is awarded the full GM title, if she...

From Ray's final column: Only one day has gone by in the more than a quarter of a century since then eithout a chess column (a sensational murder blocked out other news that day). I must have missed that one. What was the "sensational murder"? I imagine that the reference is to The Black Queen Murd...

The EC Forum started life with the blessing of the ECF... For what it's worth, this isn't accurate. The Board agreed there should be a facility through which Directors would make announcements and respond to queries but no proposal for a forum was ever put to or agreed by the Board. Angus, please s...

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑

Sat Nov 30, 2019 11:23 am

I did notice in round 1 that we were only 2 Elo points from Flear vs Flear!

Malcolm Pein also noticed, or had it drawn to his attention. He mentioned the near miss in his opening remarks.