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Nick Ivell wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 16, 2020 8:49 am

Cheating, mouse-slips, disconnections? I rest my case...

To that list I can add algorithms making instant judgements about whether humans are being unsporting as I mentioned previously.

The new site looks very good to me and the information provided and search facilities appear more extensive than those on the old Grading site. I wonder if there are any plans to allow users to make more complex searches? An example would be to find all players named Smith rated between 1600 and 169...

My point in posting the details above was to show how the situation can develop rapidly during a tournament; so, if you enter one, you can't be certain that the precautions at the start won't have to be tightened up during the event; the further you travel the more chance you are taking Thanks for ...

Yes Mick I think so. Do you know the answer to my question? My question was more of a practical one rather than a direct contribution to the discussion of the current health risks of playing OTB chess. I did quickly put one of the links into Google Translate but didn't spot anything about whether yo...

The Chessbase site has photos of players in the Spanish Championships wearing masks but with bottles of water next to their boards. Presumably the players are allowed to remove masks to drink water? If so, I wonder how often they are allowed to do this. I'm not very keen on having to frequently remo...

Holmfirth Chess Club has met:

http://mannchess.org.uk/YNotices/2020-0 ... mfirth.htm

From the link, I presume you are asking about correspondence and OTB games only and I don't know the answer. If you include any sort of chess game, then Lichess has over 75 million games for May 2020 alone available for download.

Matt, thanks for this information about the length of the ban and how it is generated. Is it publicly available? It does matter to me if the Lichess administrators see a black mark on my profile but from what you and others are saying this should now have disappeared after 24 hours (?). I don't play...

After a game yesterday on Lichess I got a message which said something like “Warning: letting your time run out instead of resigning may result in a temporary ban”. The time control was 3+2 (so fairly fast for me!). I was winning for most of the game and in the final position was the exchange and pa...

A question for those who think it's a good idea to avoid Chinese people (and presumably now also wish to avoid northern Italians and Iranians): how do you deduce from someone's nationality or ethnicity where they have recently been?

I hope this initiative is successful as I like the idea of playing people online I already know or know of from OTB play to try out new openings with etc. and who I trust won't cheat or be abusive. I'd see it as training for "proper" OTB chess. However I can't see a solution to the problem of a dama...

In one of his pre-round speeches, the organiser of the British rapidplay said that he wanted to FIDE rate it but apparently the ECF said it would have cost £800 so he didn't bother. Yes I was there and heard that figure too. I was rather puzzled as it was FIDE rated last time I played in 2016. He d...

Thank you Roger. I did spend a few minutes unsuccessfully trying to find the relevant information in the FIDE handbook before posting my query. Applying the formula you've given to my results gives the same value as on Chess Results so I will trust the calculations there for future tournaments.

In the qualification regulations we read (b) Other FIDE Rated Open Congresses (completed 1st July 2019 – 30th June 2020) with a field of 25 players or over Any player who achieves a TPR of 2300 or higher achieved over a minimum of 4 games. There appear to be a number of players who would qualify by...

Apologies if I've missed an explanation here or on the ECF website but what is the age restriction for the "Seniors Rated" event from 27th to 31st July?