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You can get little hand-held devices (where you press a button and the total increases), which is a bit easier than using a scoresheet. I think David Sedgwick would know the source of these. Alex Holowczak told me about them. https://www.amazon.co.uk/s?k=finger+counter+digital&crid=2YM8O0ENIK81V&sp...

So if I play Bc1 to f4, then to g5 and then press the clock, this is acceptable if the arbiter agrees with my explanation that I accidentally let go of the piece on f4, rather than intentionally playing Bf4? Not at all. We are talking about clearly accidental loss of contact, as in the two cases de...

Not sure if already posted, dates of the British (OtB) have been published: Open Championship Final – 2nd-10th October Womens Championship Final – 11th-17th October Senior Championships Finals – 4th-10th October Junior Finals – 2nd-3rd October Those dates were only announced yesterday. You got here...

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 6:19 pm

So man/woman civil partnerships are officially a thing now?

Since 2nd December 2019, under the terms of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Par ... )_Act_2019

So by analogy retraction of all mouseslips that are clearly mouseslips should be permitted? No. In Online play you don't have the physical evidence. You may, though, with cameras. I would suggest that that is doubtful. I make my share of mouseslips and I make plenty of one move blunders which are n...

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 7:54 pm

So by analogy retraction of all mouseslips that are clearly mouseslips should be permitted?

No. In Online play you don't have the physical evidence.

Paul McKeown's example is something of a special case.

I am doing four rapidplay events in July and August, but I would like to have 10 all play sections of 6. However FIDE would charge £70 per section to rate them! So I think I will just stick to ECF rating these... We are happy to confirm that the FIDE Council has indeed decided "to waive rating fees...

I agree completely with Paul McKeown. You apply the Preface and treat "clearly accidental loss of contact" in the same way as "clearly accidental contact". That the player who dropped his King was in the process of castling is something of a red herring, except to the extent that it provides evidenc...

There was a rapidplay in Hull listed for yesterday, but I rather think that's just not been removed. Correct. Deletion was requested some time ago, but the FIDE Elista Office are always slow to act on such requests for some reason. Nothing notified to FIDE yet for the 4NCL, Hastings and others. We ...

There is not a word about Chile predominantly using the Chinese vaccine; whose efficacy is much debated and generally speaking has been overstated Nor the fact that while "cases" have bounced, deaths haven't. They may yet, as deaths lag infections by four to five weeks. I do of course hope and pray...

The three sizeable countries with the highest vaccination rates are Israel, Chile and the UK. See https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/apr/06/israel-and-chile-both-led-on-covid-jabs-so-why-is-one-back-in-lockdown and https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/apr/11/is-vaccinating-against-covid-enou...

Meanwhile the number of registrations for the 2021 ACO Seniors in Crete in October has grown to 186 including two English Nigels: IM Nigel Povah and Nigel White (who I assume is the Wanstead player who played in the famous Czech train tournament a few years ago. You are almost certainly mistaken th...

Nick Faulks wrote; 'Why would I not prefer to live in a country whose vaccination program has failed? Or is it that other governments, such as the Iranians', are by nature less repressive than ours.' John Moore has cited evidence that the Iranians are more repressive. Then there must be another rea...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 10:23 pm

Well if you ever get hold of it let me know, though do bear in mind it's a little before my time.

I am still hopeful that someone on here will have a copy.

I note that some late-70s issues of Chess were printed "out of house" - I wonder if that was industrial dispute related. Indeed it was. If I remember correctly. Wood states in "To Our Readers" that the Federation of Master Printers had advised him to "settle" the dispute by closing down his in hous...