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- Wed Mar 13, 2024 9:34 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3566
Re: Counties and clubs
Posters to this thread may find the chingland website interesting: https://mjh.orpheusweb.co.uk/chingland/cframe.htm. I haven't looked at it for a few years and when I just looked now it seems it's no longer being kept up to date, which is a pity.
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:37 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Counties and clubs
- Replies: 55
- Views: 3566
Re: Counties and clubs
Surrey had RAE Farnborough (Hampshire) and there are lots of teams with London postcodes. I think Crystal Palace might actually be in Kent? Streatham, Battersea etc are South of the Thames and were probably in Surrey at one stage in their history. There was a Kent club about 15 years ago, but I can...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 7:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
- Replies: 61
- Views: 4089
Re: David Glueck (Oxfordshire team 1991-2)
Looking at the SCCU bulletins September 1991 to July 1992 (on the SCCU website) it is revealed that D Glueck played in most of Oxfordshire's county matches that season with a single loss to SH (has to be Steve) Berry, and wins over N (has to be Neil) L(?) Mcdonald by adjudication, JP Manley, FJ Kwia...
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3318
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
According to the 1993 yearbook board 1 of the 1991/2 County Championships Finals (Beds vs Oxfordshire) was A Ledger 1/2 D Glueck. D Glueck also played in the semifinal on board 2 against Surrey: D Glueck 1/2 G.Wall.
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 12:30 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: 2nd Cambridge International Open
- Replies: 109
- Views: 13363
Re: 2nd Cambridge International Open
In terms of the terminology of the new ECF rating rules, FIDE uses the K formula approach to calculate TPRs whereas the 400's formula uses the P formula approach. You can find details of how P ratings are calculated versus K ratings on the ECF rating site under "Help".
- Wed Feb 21, 2024 11:48 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Channel Tunnel Shares in 1942
- Replies: 9
- Views: 932
Re: Channel Tunnel Shares in 1942
Studies/plans/ pilot borings for a channel tunnel started in the nineteenth century. Between 1929 and 1960 there was a parliamentary Channel Tunnel Committee and an engineer from the "Channel Tunnel Company" served on this committee since the start. Although I have no other information about this co...
- Tue Feb 20, 2024 10:50 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 122827
Re: Chess history trivia
Oxford?
- Mon Feb 19, 2024 11:17 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 122827
Re: Chess history trivia
De Montefort?
- Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:58 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Opponents who "helpfully" write their name on your scoresheet
- Replies: 32
- Views: 2110
Re: Opponents who "helpfully" write their name on your scoresheet
I am also (slightly) irritated by this habit but I don't think there are grounds for claiming it is distracting behaviour as the game hasn't started yet.
- Sat Feb 03, 2024 3:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: ECF ratings.
- Replies: 13
- Views: 1267
Re: ECF ratings.
Thank you both. One follow-up question: Would the old system have brought me back to the 2013 level (one can hope!) faster than in the new system, or is the answer there that it depends on the number of games played? In the old system, I was very active for a number of years (over 100 games in some...
- Tue Jan 30, 2024 12:47 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF meeting reports
- Replies: 91
- Views: 13005
Re: ECF meeting reports
This will in turn potentially see more delegates going to council with different ideas and perspectives. Would it not be just as likely that the collectors of proxies would have a field day? The proxy system is just one of the many unsatisfactory aspects of the present regime. ... My understanding ...
- Sun Jan 21, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: K. W. Lloyd
- Replies: 22
- Views: 1898
Re: K. W. Lloyd
Kenneth W Lloyd appears in some BCF grading books I have: 1996/7: C192 (previously 189) 1997/8: D192 1998/9: D193 1999/2000: D188 He doesn't appear in any booklets I have after 99/2000 (well, not the next 2), indicating that he had stopped playing at that point. In all cases he is listed as a member...
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 1:18 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 122827
Re: Chess history trivia
Yes, that's him - I had a few chats/ games of hexagonal chess with him when I spotted him in the shop (he employed a full-time manager).Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:58 amWładysław Gliński (article in Portuguese Wikipedia)
Do you recognise Gliński from that photo?
- Mon Jan 15, 2024 11:05 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 122827
Re: Chess history trivia
The "first theories of hexagonal chess" was probably by Glinski. I lived in Clapham Park from 1973 to 1975 and this gentleman opened a shop on Abbeville Road marketing equipment for playing the game (his invention). I still have the board I bought from him and I have probably got the book somewhere,...
- Wed Jan 10, 2024 10:06 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: ICL Pathway (Fujitsu) Curiosity
- Replies: 25
- Views: 3070
Re: ICL Pathway (Fujitsu) Curiosity
I think a poor system specification/ software design is too blame. A minimum requirement of such a system should be that the users can print out a list of all transactions for any day to see where errors have occurred and check the balance by hand. From what we have heard they were not able to do th...