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There's always something that goes wrong. In this case presumably no-one tipped off local airlines about the nature of the extra demand this weekend and that those travelling for the Olympiad were near 100% certain to show up. Turkish Airlines are the official airline for the Olympiad, so they shou...

Chris Rice wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 22, 2018 6:51 pm

Also note how Dvorkovich hasn't commented at all (I haven't been able to locate anything on social media).

I expect that we shall hear from him again when he gets to Batumi.

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 22, 2018 12:23 pm

Thanks David - can you give me simple instructions for the JCI IRO on how Jersey should get someone registered?

I'll send you an email.

Normally captains have until the technical meeting the night before round one to make changes to their board order. But not this time. The deadline was yesterday. http://www.fide.com/component/content/article/1-fide-news/11151-2018-batumi-chess-olympiad-announcement.html. At Malcolm Pein's instigat...

The list of FIDE licensed arbiters may be found at http://arbiters.fide.com/images/stories/downloads/2013/List_of_Licensed_Arbiters.pdf. Anyone on that list is acceptable to FIDE as an arbiter for a FIDE rated event. National Federations may impose additional criteria within their jurisdiction if th...

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Fri Sep 21, 2018 6:41 am

We await more information.

... which we now have.

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/fide-elections/

There is a new tweet by Malcolm at https://twitter.com/TelegraphChess/status/1042850498330722305. "This has not gone unnoticed by https://twitter.com/ecfchess but more on that later." It looks as though the ECF Board has followed Malcolm's earlier lead and decided to vote for Makro on the first or s...

Could you clarify when a FIDE Licensed Arbiter is sufficient, and when a FIDE Arbiter is required? For any FIDE rated tournament, all the arbiters must be FIDE licensed. For a Title Tournament an International Arbiter or a FIDE Arbiter must be present at all times. This does not apply if the tourna...

Richmond Juniors would like to run an U18 standard play tournament on Saturday 3rd December, alongside our London Junior's U8/U10/U12 qualifier at Orleans Park School. We have done this for the previous couple of years ourselves, but this year we would like to have it FIDE rated. I understand this ...

Why does the County Championship (ECF stage and apparently in the SCCU) get more disputes and appeals than, say, league matches? They're both arbiterless, but there are far more league matches played that don't lead to anywhere near the number of disputes that regularly appear in the County Champio...

Does anyone have , even a gossip informed view, about who is most likely to win, candidates and inner circles excepted? I am going to a conference next week and would rather like to rant, in the social corridors, about Putin soft power! Short Answer: No (no pun intended) Longer Answer: Both the Dvo...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Thu Sep 06, 2018 7:28 am

Are there any playing captains? There is no reason for this in an Olympiad.

There are some. Congo and Sao Tome are two which I noticed.

From those countries, the travel grant would not suffice to cover the air fare.

Just one reason to keep the national club. With a new ECF Director of Home Chess due to be elected at the ECF Annual Council Meeting on 13th October, surely the appropriate course of action is for you to lobby the candidates to adopt this and other policies important to you as the price of your sup...

I can reproduce the comment if you want, but obviously it might lose a bit of context that way. I have temporarily inproved my internet access, but I haven't been able to find the comments. I suspect that they can only be seen by Facebook members. If you would post what has been said about me, I wo...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 30, 2018 8:10 am

David Sedgwick gets a namecheck

Really? Where?