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JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 28, 2020 8:57 am

What kind of ignorant racist nonsense is this? You think this is something to do with Chinese restaurants?

Doesn't China Town attract Chinese visitors to the UK, who are more likely than others to be infected?

My preceding sentence may be ignorant, but I don't think that it's racist.

What is a "head arbiter"? We only have a chief arbiter (CA) in the arbiters manual Your earlier question was about religions and that was what I answered. As you correctly state, in chess the correct term is Chief Arbiter. I don't think that another poster's references to a "head arbiter" being som...

Why would the 'chief' of the religion mean? what about 'head'? There is very little difference, but it is perhaps a question of the extent of the person's influence I would describe the Archbishop of Canterbury as the head of the Church of England. He doesn't have the same doctrinal authority as do...

You do realize people can actually look this sort of thing up on IMDb and work out that you're bluffing, yes? While that is true, it does nothing for the good name and reputation of this Forum that these spurious posts are tolerated. When are you and Carl going to take some action? April 1st would ...

Regarding Rowson, I only recall him being drafted in once as a last minute replacement, but I could be wrong. I don't want to comment on any other aspect of what you say, but on that point you definitely are wrong. Rowson received and accepted invitations to play in the first three British Knockout...

Thanks, but still hard to see. In future years this moment may well come to be regarded as one of the most significant episodes in 21st century chess history. The move is indeed hard to see. After all, a player as great as Fabiano Caruana missed it. He was expecting to reach the drawing line given ...

I wouldn't mind knowing what films this chap was apparently in. Just insert Francis Fields in the Forum search box above and you should be able to work out a possible/probable answer to that query. I tried googling the first sentence of Mr Fields's initial post. The only result of the search was th...

Alex Holowczak is just about the only ECF Director who posts on this Forum regularly. I don't always agree with what he says, but I normally find the content informative and useful. If that continues, we can count ourselves singularly fortunate. After what Alex has been subjected to on the last coup...

Finally, as I understand it, they are going to have 5 players playing white and only 3 black in all rounds as an experiment to reduce the number of draws. You should perhaps have mentioned, as the author of the original comment did, that it is a pity that April 1st will be a rest day. In the 2013 C...

FWIW, pages 8 and 9 of this thread have posts from 14 January, none from Alex H. Either it is in a different thread or it was removed. It was there yesterday, but with the content deleted. It has now been removed completely. My view, for what it's worth, is that we should now let this point go. Ale...

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Fri Feb 14, 2020 1:38 am

Jonathan, apologies for sounding harsh but it really does sound like you didn't want to read it.

Did you mean Justin?

Keith Arkell wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:33 pm

Furthermore, I believe that not only the playoffs but one of the rounds consisted entirely of rapid chess and blitz, ...

That is true, but it was not the intention. It was forced on the organisers (and the arbiters) by circumstances beyond their control.

There 's a claim here that anything with a battery in it meets the definition of an "electronic device" in the Laws, in an article explaining why a player was defaulted for wearing a battery operated watch. The FIDE Laws are deficient because they do not define what is meant by an "electronic devic...

... it was running on Adobe Flash, which is disabled by default on modern browsers (Firefox and Chrome). Adobe Flash is alleged to be dangerous. I have been using it for ten years without either me or my laptops coming to any harm. I shall miss it when it's gone. For the moment, however, I continue...

For those that like to collect records can we agree that 229 ECF is the highest ever first standard play grade for OTB play for someone who has never had a grade or rating from any country ? I'm struggling to think of anyone who has beaten this record. 229 equates to 2417 ELO/FIDE. Garry Kasparov's...