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Covid 19 and surfaces. Dominic Lawson in yesterday's Sunday Times strongly dismisses the idea that the virus can easily be transmitted by communal touching of surfaces. Quoting scientific evidence, he says that expensive deep sanitising is unnecessary. Separately I have heard that charity shops no ...

Some comments on the two of the motions: Director terms in office 14. I’m not too concerned about Director terms in office – I can see the argument for limiting terms to encourage new people to stand for office. I can also see the argument for wanting to retain someone if they’re perceived to be doi...

Some comments and questions on the ECF’s finances, including the budget for 2021/22, and proposed fee rates... (Papers for the meeting are here: https://www.englishchess.org.uk/about/ecf-council-and-board/. The ECF financial year runs from 1 September to the following 31 August.) Accounts for 2019/2...

Back to the main topic, other countries such as Iran have apparently handled their vaccination programs poorly and their people are allowed to play chess. We have handled ours in brilliant world-beating fashion ( in fact we have now reached the point previously defined as herd immunity ) and we're ...

I will be sending out my Report to the Silver Members tomorrow to the Office asking for views from the silver members Have you looked at the financials at all, John? Also, presumably there are documents still to be published. here is the link and i have seen it https://www.englishchess.org.uk/about...

I can't say I'm too concerned as anyone newly dealing with Ray would, if they had any sense at all, first do a background check [as one would do with anyone else] which might start with something as simple as googling his name. Among the first entries one comes across is, for example, "Raymond Keen...

Ah, the lichess categorisations are different. See https://lichess.org/faq#time-controls.

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 05, 2021 3:25 pm

I will be sending out my Report to the Silver Members tomorrow to the Office asking for views from the silver members

Have you looked at the financials at all, John? Also, presumably there are documents still to be published.

Here is the link https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/european-national-team-championships-fortune-teller-another-proof-that-it-is-not-possible/ I have quoted John's comments in full. I respect his insights as a member of the fair play commission, a lawyer, an expert player and a friend. That doe...

The chess.com article about the Osmak case has been highlighted on a Bridge Forum and received a rather interesting comment from my teammate John Cox (who is, it may be worth noting, a lawyer). "As a member of FIDE's Fair Play Commission, I would like to correct a slightly misleading impression giv...

Here is an 80s music question. Should be quite easy though. No googling. Where did the 80s group T'Pau get their name from? T'Pau was Spock's mother. How many ears did Spock have? Three - a left ear, a right ear and a final front ear. Ha ha - very good. I hesitate to contribute to this thread but a...

Someone calling himself David Cordover has commented on Chess24. I'll reproduce the comments here, but I would just caution that I have no evidence as to whether this is, or is not, the real David Cordover The comments can be found against the piece here . Given what is attributed to him, I think i...

...it's probably safe [despite scepticism among some here] to assume that the ECF Board doesn't routinely make random senior appointments for no particular reason. Perhaps it could say what the reason(s) was/were? Yes, the Articles allow the Board to fill board vacancies and create new directorship...

The Articles of Association provide for a maximum of 12 Directors. There were previously 11, so the Board was entitled to appoint an additional person. It must have taken me all of two minutes on the ECF website to confirm the facts I have stated in the previous sentence. I checked the same, though...

Um, can I ask: is this a Board-level appointment?