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I'm not quite sure how this would work. Provided the game has been scored to at least as far as the last pawn move or piece exchange , you know at what move count the relevant endgame started. A subsequent claim (by a player) can be validated by asking the clock to display its count. I'm primarily ...

So if FIDE aren't enforcing the sanction in the regulations, and in any case FIDE's own competitions aren't complying with the regulations that pending the publication of minutes we think have been passed, why should the rest of us? The "easy" form of cheating is the same as it has always been, nam...

In practice, there's probably quite a wide gulf between "things that could technically stop an organization's games being rated" and "things that actually would stop an organization's games being rated". It's filtered by the national federation's IRO (International Ratings Officer) is it not? I can...

It seems extraordinary that the organisers are saying that the balance of entrants' hotel costs cannot be paid by credit card. Are they doing the normal organiser's trick of buying the hotel rooms at wholesale cost and passing them on to the participants at retail? That might explain why they canno...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 1:47 pm

Sorry, not sure what you're getting at here

My guess was a reference to someone you've blogged about who had Surrey and BCF connections.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 2:12 pm

The existence of this campaign is unknown to me.

Someone has abducted your blog then.

To be clear, the reason for this is that Pokerstars allowed US citizens to play online poker, a right taken for granted in most countries. Pokerstars and others tried to get round the ban on online poker for money by using various subterfuges involving credit card billing. Rather than tolerate this...

Alex Holowczak wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 19, 2018 11:34 am

Compulsory re-pairing has not been legalised in (3).

If the default rule is optional re-pairing, why cannot the rules of the competition specify otherwise, compulsory re-pairing?

There seem to be two groups of chess players, one ( like me ) who leave the playing hall once or twice during a game and a small minority who do so after almost every move. Why? I think there should be a presumption that if you frequently leave the playing area, then you are at risk of being accuse...

However, the FIDE Competition Rules have been published, and they appear to accurately reflect the changes that various people from the Anglosphere wanted on day 2 of the General Assembly Swiss system rules will affect most people in practice Unless the rules of a competition specify otherwise: (3)...

Clocks don't show the number of moves, they show the number of times the clock has been pressed. It's not necessarily the same because people sometimes forget to press their clocks. With increments it becomes more important to insist that the clock is pressed even when the opponent has forgotten. I...

My pet hate is when you play a promising kid, in a tournament like Hastings, and they go off to an area where the parents are congregated, with laptops and smart phones alive, and then the kid returns to play what turns out to be the engine first choice move. Keith makes a good point, that the layo...

Or will the better estimate based on future games within the grading period be used retrospectively? In the ECF grading system, all juniors are treated as new players every year. This means that your performance against him will be graded by reference to games he or she has yet to play. It's gettin...

Carlsen may lose if Svidler can find 37.Bd5 (though maybe not, and now moot as Svidler played a different move). move 40 [SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/p1k1npp1/7p/2PBK3/7P/P5P1/8/8 b - - 4 40"] Svidler offering a King and pawn ending which engines seem to think is a draw. In one variation they reach King & Q...

I have never seen any of the behaviour described. I wouldn't say that behaviour has got noticeably worse in recent times, but all the bullet points seem familiar enough, looking back 50 years. You have to learn not to allow it to be upsetting and to take advantage of the information being conveyed ...