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When will the rules be published?

There are several points I would like to check regarding the rules of the 4NCL. Unfortunately, the rules are yet to be published. This has not deterred entries. Team captains must assume that this season's rules are more or less the same as last. Surely some basic ruleset can be published to help te...

Looks like a tournament where the only entries are from the board squares.

In calculating the average team rating, LMS includes a defaulted player as having a rating of zero. This can be misleading. Am I alone in expecting the average team rating to be the average rating of those who actually played? There is a difference between playing a highly rated team with say transp...

There will be a splendid chess festival in Stockholm in April. The line-up includes Judit Polgár, Levy Rozman, Anna Cramling, Pia Cramling, Andrea Botez and Nils Grandelius. Magnus will attend digitally. Its first day coincides with the final day of the massive Swedish school chess competition, Scha...

We are making a collection of the games of K F H (Ken) Inwood. He was British Boys champion in 1953 and played in the Glorney Cup for England. He was for decades one of the leading players at Kingston Chess Club with his heyday in the 1970s but he was not one to save his game scoresheets. He is now ...

The recently-uploaded, short-lived London Chess Magazine from 1983, has the following plea to find a missing person: "An unlikely topic for a Chess Magazine but I have had the following request from the Glasgow Chess Club. James Watson Dick has been missing since 14th April 1983 and was last known t...

I wonder how the chess will be portrayed. The attempt to introduce the autistic boy to the chess club was a failure. He barely walked into the room when he turned around and left. I would have done the same. The room was chaotic with children shouting and moving in all directions. There did not app...

The London Strategy Games Festival will take place on Sunday 29 June at the MindSports Centre in Hammersmith. It will be an opportunity to learn and play some classic games, not least chess. Test your skills at some of the other fascinating games: bridge, go, hive, amazons, lines of action, abalone,...

In the globalised chess world, teams have replaced clubs. Social groupings within a geographical area don't attract sponsors. What are the threads which bind the team members together? The challenge for this implanted event is to obtain a scintilla of interest.

Safeguarding is important - we exclude juniors from our WhatsApp group. Note that WhatsApp groups may not "belong" to a club but the club may still be liable if someone feels the club should have intervened. This happened recently with the parents' WhatsApp groups criticising teachers who then sued ...

There are a number of potential transgressions - off topic posts, irrelevant personal issues, politics, religion, abuse, foul language, threats, defamation, obscenity, harassment and general unpleasantness. I hasten to add that Kingston Chess Club does not admit to any of these occurences.

WhatsApp is a vital communication medium for many chess clubs but sometimes it can get out of hand. Does any club have a Code of Conduct for members of its WhatsApp Group?

Can someone or some bot summarise this thread?
I don't have the stamina to wade through the comments.

From NoseKnowsAll Blog reporting on Lichess. ECF has reported an easy way to compare ECF and FIDE ratings. Based on my results, I believe their measurement underestimates a player's FIDE rating for the low end and overestimates a player's FIDE rating for the high end. If you want an extremely simple...