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In relation to the Surrey grading I spoke to Matthew at the British and it turns out that simplest solution for me (remove the January submitted results) was feasible and I saw him do this. Thanks to Nick for offering his help in checking the results but his help has turned out to be not needed.

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Oops, the Surrey foul up is down to me - unaccountably I used a different event code in January to the one I normally use.

Two years ago we (Guildford) paid about £30 for up to (about) 10 DBS checks. According to information on the web we should have got it done by some organisation in Woking that helped voluntary organisations but when we eventually tracked them down we discovered they didn't do it anymore and were red...

I sympathise with Devon. I think we should change the rules so that either team has the right to insist on a telephone match (at all stages of the competition). I understand from earlier discussion that such a thing can be easily done these days via the internet although the name of the software you...

White wins the game efficiently from an overwhelming position.

This is great news!

Alex while appreciating the financial difficulty it seems to me that the ECF is missing an opportunity here to promote chess. We have experienced and able commentators (Williams, Ward, Trent etc) in the UK and we have (potentially) a great product to promote (the strongest British chess players play...

See item 19 of the March minutes (https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-cont ... ration.pdf).

The discussion was wider than the minute suggests but no conclusion was reached.

At Llandudno I remember having the choice of the onsite commentary (with audience interaction, visits from players who went through their games) and (in my hotel room) the offsite commentary which wasn't even particularly knowledgeable about the players taking part. I guess it's all about the budget...

The (apparent) absence of a commentary team was one of the reasons I didn't go to Hull. (I had emailed the ECF and asked what the plans were and (on receiving no reply) got the message that it was regarded as a low priority.)

The answer is the same (I think). While the compact notation (1. e4 Nf6) is most commonly used (and encouraged) looking at my own scoresheets (as well as those of others) it is common to see mistakes in the form of ambiguous moves (e.g. Nd7 when Nbd7 is required) or in my case (because I first learn...

Even the poll is currently drawn at 3 votes each.

The London Chess Classic was much more entertaining from the spectator's point of view when the 8 players consisted of 4 from the top 10 and 4 English GMs (more decisive results and occasionally the English underdog would win), so here's a vote for more mixed (in terms of ability) tournaments . The ...

It's a governance issue in the sense of: could we have a better set of rules to deal with this situation?