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John Upham wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 19, 2019 11:25 am

Is this a change of policy?

This was announced at least a year ago.

The cost is per League played in rather than per player.

There were players who took byes which certainly would affect the qualification places in the Major Open for instance. Top 10 in the Major Open and ties goes down to 6/9 including 14 players. https://chess-results.com/tnr458548.aspx?lan=1&art=4&flag=30 Two had byes, one in the first round and one i...

]Sections E & F are also new and I presume are aimed at up and coming players scoring great results in tournaments. Section E isn't new as it's always been possible to qualify from the London Classic, Hastings etc. What has been scrapped is the under publicised qualification Grand Prix. Now it's ba...

Curiously there seems to have been some kind of transmission (check out the Penguin in a brown suit) on French TV athough via which station, I could not tell you. It was a French streaming site, Canalplus I think, although whether broadcast to air, I wouldn't be sure. Braingames were going to make ...

James Plaskett wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 05, 2018 4:33 pm

And this is of James Graham´s text of his play, QUIZ -

Coming to ITV(!) in the near future

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... drama.html

In the case last year of the suspected cheating junior player from the 4NCL Congress last year, disqualified before the final round was played, didn't face any action at all and is free to carry on playing, (but has choosen not to enter any events since the incident)? Is that known for certain? At ...

Matt Bridgeman wrote: ↑

Thu Aug 15, 2019 9:28 am

It would be banded in category C, the least serious I would think, but would still meet the definition of the offence.

On the other hand, newspapers didn't have any difficulties publishing the Rausis photgraph.

I presume the point is purely symbolic, because if anything is found it will not constitute an offence anyway. If the phone was concealed as supposedly done by Rausis and the Dutch lad, that might indicate intent. If a concealed phone was found and hadn't been "declared" in previous rounds, that al...

In the current climate it seems only a matter of time before someone is in England. I might hope there were limiting conditions. One being present at the board for most of the game or at least in view and the other not producing moves allegedly far above the rating. The latter is subjective though ...

I recall a book on the Benoni, which said in the foreword that it meant "Son of Sorrow", unlike "Benjamin" which means "Son of Joy"(?) That's what wiki reckons, rather than it being something to do with the town in South Africa of that name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benoni_Defense https://en.w...

Having carried out several hundred police arrests it personally wouldn't worry me, but I know what you mean. Someone sat in a cubicle analysing a chess game on their mobile. tablet or computer isn't going to restore their reputation in the chess world by arresting the collector of the evidence that...

but if neither player is at the board when "... and start White's start clock" has been announced when will any such game be deemed to officially start? In my experience the usual practice is that one of the arbiters will start the clocks where neither player is present as soon after the nominal st...

I have deleted Charlie's latest post on the grounds that it was, if not necessarily libellous, arguably close to being so, Charlie made the point that Lorin had been absent from the board for some time. But was it not the case that Lorin had been intercepted on his way back from the Rosetor (refres...

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Mon Aug 12, 2019 10:04 am

I would expect it was contemporary reports.

On this very site!

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=420&start=15#p4030

Roger, you have mentioned this before and it may well be true, but how do you know that? I would expect it was contemporary reports. Has it ever been the case that a win by mobile phone noise wouldn't count for Norms and rating? The FIDE site doesn't record her Norm history. Someone suggested her N...