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- Thu Jan 21, 2021 12:20 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Office Staff on Furlough
- Replies: 47
- Views: 6022
Re: ECF Office Staff on Furlough
Thanks Nick, one compliment is worth a thousand moans 

- Tue Nov 03, 2020 2:36 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Should the ECF try to organise more chess?
- Replies: 66
- Views: 4983
Re: Should the ECF try to organise more chess?
Andrew Zigmond asked --- Are the current office staff non players? The name of the best known office member is taken twice in the database and the most likely candidate has a respectable enough grade of 163. If that's the name Andrew Walker (best-known?) it's me and I am a non-player If that's Gary ...
- Sun Jul 26, 2020 7:54 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Membership Renewal
- Replies: 301
- Views: 20987
Re: Membership Renewal
RE: Is the office open
I've been working from home since June 1st, five days a week. Gary returned to work (from home) on the 1st July. We have been open, and I have visited the office in Battle once per week (on average) to deal with the post.
I've been working from home since June 1st, five days a week. Gary returned to work (from home) on the 1st July. We have been open, and I have visited the office in Battle once per week (on average) to deal with the post.
- Fri Jul 24, 2020 4:16 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Membership Renewal
- Replies: 301
- Views: 20987
Re: Membership Renewal
In case any forum readers are unclear, all ECF members who paid their membership by Direct Debit last year need take no action should they wish to pay by Direct Debit in 2020-2021 and remain members at the same level. We hope to put the 2020-2021 memberships on sale shortly, and current members will...
- Tue Feb 11, 2020 9:53 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: UK Pun day
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1446
Re: UK Pun day
When I was learning chess, I once tried to move my castle first. Bit of a rookie error.
- Fri Jan 24, 2020 9:04 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Badge
- Replies: 17
- Views: 2521
Re: Badge
Brian Look no further for the culprit than me. I ordered the badges, OK'd the design, queried and obtained the funds, created the list, set up the mail merge, printed the labels, stuck the labels on the jiffy bags and organised the posting. I was not solely responsible for putting the letters and ba...
- Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:19 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Results of the ECF 2018/9 Grand Prix
- Replies: 68
- Views: 9930
Re: Results of the ECF 2018/9 Grand Prix
QUOTE --- There's no obvious link on the ECF's site. A Google search came up with https://www.englishchess.org.uk/ecf-grand-prix/ --- UNQUOTE Roger - I really do try my best, and have done so for the past ten years. Is this link, from the very front page of the website, not obvious enough? https://w...
- Thu Aug 08, 2019 4:27 pm
- Forum: Grading Debate
- Topic: ECFgrading SSL
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1385
Re: ECFgrading SSL
This reply from Dave Thomas, via Andrew Walker in the ECF office --- The SSL certificate is used to encrypt data transmitted between the user and the web site. There is no facility for confidential data to be passed between the user and the grading website - therefore using HTTPS (and thereby access...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Hastings Congress
- Replies: 161
- Views: 15380
Re: Hastings Congress
I am, and always will be, open to fresh ideas / images / suggestions, especially directly, which I feel is always more polite than via the forum, which I visit very rarely. Send your images to andrew@englishchess.org.uk and when a suitable image presents itself, I'll change it :D :D :D :D :D Good ne...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:50 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: FIDE Senior Championships 2019
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6309
Re: FIDE Senior Championships 2019
... but thanks for the few kind words, Keith A. You can always reach me at the office, rather than via this forum, where I am very, VERY rarely ...
- Fri Apr 12, 2019 11:47 am
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: FIDE Senior Championships 2019
- Replies: 43
- Views: 6309
Re: FIDE Senior Championships 2019
It's true that we used to have all the links in dropdowns at the top of the page, but far more people complained that these were too busy and too complex and that all the links should be visible than are complaining here, so I put them all in plain sight. However, as the one, the only webmaster, I a...
- Mon Mar 18, 2019 3:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Getting back into playing chess ...
- Replies: 4
- Views: 1157
Getting back into playing chess ...
POSTED on behalf of Tim Clare (details below) - please contact him if you can help Dear Andrew Regarding our telephone conversation this afternoon about finding a chess partner to rekindle my game. Over 30 years ago I sustained a spinal injury in a car accident which left me as a permanent wheelchai...
- Tue Dec 18, 2018 2:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: ECF Christmas closure annoucement photo
- Replies: 7
- Views: 1088
Re: ECF Christmas closure annoucement photo
https://www.amazon.com/Star-Wars-Force- ... B015Z9DRPA - any good?
Also 'announcement' rather than 'annoucement'?
Also 'announcement' rather than 'annoucement'?
- Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:04 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: 2019 British
- Replies: 111
- Views: 14758
- Tue Jul 10, 2018 4:54 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Rebranding
- Replies: 37
- Views: 5339
Re: Rebranding
For me, clicking also doesn't work, and reloading didn't help either. I had to right-click and 'copy link' and paste the link into a browser. It then worked. The differences are interesting. Can you remember roughly which year that change took place, Andrew? From the older to the old? Roughly Octob...