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David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 22, 2021 12:22 pm

Tim has now repeated on Chess.com his initial post in this thread.

This is the link
https://www.chess.com/blog/timpeterwall ... -officials
(which might be of interest as to what the chess.com audience thinks)

"Totally" being as yet undefined. What could happen is that legal prohibitions are removed but replaced by guidance. For example it might be legal to assemble 100 people in a room for a chess tournament, but guidance issued by a government, local authority, insurers or ECF might say NO for most pra...

✔️At the end of each round, the PGNs were sent to Prof Ken Regan for analysis and the results communicated to the CA and Supervisor. You wonder what the cheat-finder programs make of the Caruana-MVL Poison Pawn Najdorf. One might presume a certain amount of preparatory engine work went into that, f...

How do I cause that to be displayed, after I've set up a position? I just ran a test of the Android app on a phone. First I cleared the board. It's the cross at the bottom of the screen. Message displayed "no White King" place a white King on e1 Message displayed "no Black King" place a black King ...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 7:21 pm

There's a version of it on a creaky Shredder site that worked for a bit (and then didn't) but is there a reliable version anywhere?

I found an mostly reliable Android app that connects to the Lomonosov tables.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 19, 2021 6:27 pm

And great drama as Caruana beats MVL in what looked like an unwinnable Rook and g-pawn v knight and f-pawn ending.

According to Lomonosov tables, a decisive mistake was Nh6 in this position at move 55 rather than Ne7

[SetUp "1"] [FEN "8/8/5pk1/5n2/5K2/3R4/6P1/8 b - - 10 55"]

During one of my games after a few moves the game suddenly ended. I sign came up saying that my opponent had been violating the lichess terms of service. Although the game was ended with immediate effect, his account was not closed. Which struck me as odd. It could have been the lichess equivalent ...

So there is the solution, if you think you have just played an online cheat, block them. That could work where the pairing scheme is one where you enter a pool and are paired with the next available opponent. It breaks down if playing in a team or individual championship where it would be difficult...

There's no reliable way for chess.com or lichess to really know what the rate of false positive of their algorithms actually is. With a sufficiently large pool of trustworthy volunteers, they could attempt an experiment whereby they asked some volunteers to use engine assistance all the time some o...

It's a piece about covid testing, but the application of Bayes's Theorem seems also relevant to the question of how many false positives are being detected by the cheat finder methods. As a summary, the smaller the proportion of people using engine assistance/ having covid, the greater the relative ...

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 14, 2021 2:57 pm

IoM reopening businesses on Monday 19 April

The question for the Grand Swiss is when they reopen their borders to visitors.

- they need to record the whole game (or the 50 moves), but obviously at speed that's difficult! If you are claiming that at least fifty moves have elapsed since the last pawn move or capture, why do you need to know what these moves were? Even without using the clock counter, you could have a scor...

Paul Robert Jackson wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 14, 2021 8:51 am

Are entries for congresses such as the "July 4NCL" going to need to be residents / guests at the hotel?

That's never been the case in the past, but who knows what restrictions will be placed on a weekend gathering of 100 or more in residential conference facilities?

Both players were either not recording or had never been recording. They were moving too fast for me to record but I was ticking on a scoresheet to keep count of the number of moves. If you had been using one of the more recent designs of DGT clock, they record the number of times they are pressed ...

Ronnie Burton wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 13, 2021 8:20 pm

On a positive note, we are planning to hold the 2021 Congress on Armistice weekend (12th - 14th November).

If both take place as currently scheduled, for once there isn't a clash with a 4NCL weekend.