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John McKenna wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:57 pm

I was put off my stroke by typing while travelling on the Hayes line.

You were doing what? Are you trying to kill your granny?

Alan Walton wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 1:41 pm

No harm done

Unless the child concludes, as some have, that chess appears to be a game concerned primarily with accusations of cheating and is better avoided altogether.

Matthew Turner wrote: ↑

Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:49 am

anti-science

Ah. Is this the new term, alongside "anti-vaxxer" and "Covid denier" with which to besmirch anyone who dares to wonder aloud whether we are possibly being fed a pack of lies by politicised and self-interested "scientists"?

Jonathan Bryant wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 08, 2021 2:44 pm

Still, I find Lichess' attitude to the subject to be too self-congratulatory to be healthy.

I couldn't agree more. They should either do the job or stop saying that they do it.

Nick Grey wrote: ↑

Tue Apr 06, 2021 11:01 pm

I HOPE no taking children out of school with fines. HOPE meets travel rules - local. NO holiday is allowed.

A curious post, given that the event is during the school holidays.

Forgetting important details relating to the World Memory Championships does not look good.

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 5:45 pm

Rebrand it as a FIDE Online World Championship and a multitude of sins will be covered.

I'm not sure what you mean. Anything online has Online in the title.

Matthew Turner wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 3:48 pm

If you have an automated system then you must also have a very high threshold of proof for these cases.

They could have a low threshold of proof and then randomly ban one in fifty of the players they catch. I'm not saying they do that, but the fact is that we don't know what they do.

Or I shall be accused.

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:44 pm

From an email which I have just sent to the members of the SCCU Executive Committee:

"It may just be I, as I am notoriously pedantic, ..."

Makes me sorry not to be on the circulation list.

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 03, 2021 12:43 pm

That might seem an implicit condition of taking part in events on lichess or chess.com.

Implicit won't do. It needs to be explicit.

But weren't they asked, in effect, whether they were willing to risk being disqualified if it was suspected that they were cheating, because that's what the regulations said? I am accustomeded to reading financial documents in which an array of risk factors are listed, to avoid future trouble. Here...

Leonard Barden wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 11:18 pm

John Cox's words quoted in a previous post, not mine.

Apologies Leonard, I realised that but should have edited the post to make it clear.

Roger de Coverly wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:58 pm

What are Bridge players concerned about?

John may have felt that he was keeping his head below the parapet by commenting on a non-chess website.

Leonard Barden wrote: ↑

Thu Apr 01, 2021 10:20 pm

glancing furtively offscreen

Other pejorative descriptions are available.

edit : Leonard was himself quoting another source, which I should have made clear.