It is a real problem if they are the designated driver!Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Mar 18, 2024 12:54 pmI think the occasional person missing the team meal on a Saturday night is a sufficiently rare occurrence that's it's not worth changing things for.
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- Fri Mar 22, 2024 5:22 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL Time control
- Replies: 14
- Views: 1240
Re: 4NCL Time control
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:57 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Caro Kann Breyer variation
- Replies: 12
- Views: 750
Re: Caro Kann Breyer variation
Is this about the French or the CK?
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:53 am
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3598
Re: Rapid events with over rated players.
Elephant in the room.Peter Ackley wrote: ↑Mon Mar 11, 2024 11:38 amin county matches where players had to be in rating order at the national stages
- Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:47 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
- Replies: 37
- Views: 3812
Re: Intersection between academia and international chess titles
Surrey won the Minor Counties in 2018. They gave all team members a very nice trophy.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sat Mar 09, 2024 2:01 pmSurrey were in the Minor Counties Championship then?
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 8:30 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 3035
- Views: 347143
Re: Cheating in chess
That game is proof of cheating? By which player?
- Fri Mar 08, 2024 10:54 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 3035
- Views: 347143
Re: Cheating in chess
I don't think that is necessarily true, and he should certainly try. He won't, of course.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Fri Mar 08, 2024 9:49 amAs I understand it FIDE has no reach into online chess so Nunez or whoever else can't refer him to the Ethics Committee.
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742028
Re: Media comments on chess
https://www.thearticle.com/unseen-blushes-hans-niemann-and-the-varsity-match I'm not sure how I came to read this rather disjointed RDK piece, perhaps the result of a search for "Varsity Match". Anyway, he makes the passing comment that Tigran Petrosian was Jewish. It hardly matters, but I don't rec...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742028
Re: Media comments on chess
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/03/02/cambridge-academic-trapped-medieval-tower/?WT.mc_id=e_DM287520&WT.tsrc=email&etype=Edi_Nhl_New&utmsource=email&utm_medium=Edi_Nhl_New20240303&utm_campaign=DM287520 Not the most gripping story of the day, but read the final sentence. I hope her book comes t...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 10:35 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Membership Reform
- Replies: 150
- Views: 16450
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:55 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3598
Re: Rapid events with over rated players.
The original poster is probably referring to the facts that a) historically, most players' ECF ratings far exceeded their FIDE ratings, and b) most ECF ratings in England are based on more games, making them a more accurate measure of playing strength. I still don't get who are the overrated player...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3598
Re: Rapid events with over rated players.
Fair enough, although it does take only five games against rated opposition to get a rating.Mick Norris wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 5:04 pmYesBrendan O'Gorman wrote: ↑Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:54 pmI think Mick may be alluding to the fact that one doesn't get a FIDE rating for games against players without a FIDE rating.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 4:38 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Rapid events with over rated players.
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3598
Re: Rapid events with over rated players.
They would if they were submitted for rating! No charge.
I am confused by the title of this thread.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:19 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5414
Re: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
One of whom was Miles. There was no reason for him to be modest, so he wasn't!Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑Tue Feb 27, 2024 2:12 pmWhich was and remains the only theoretical novelty to ever get a perfect score (all 10/10s) from the Chess Informant jury.
- Tue Feb 27, 2024 5:16 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
- Replies: 39
- Views: 5414
Re: The Best Game of Chess played by an English Player
I wondered why I could not find this game. It's actually 1986.Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Sun Feb 25, 2024 9:41 pmAnd Miles v Belyavsky 1984, with the shattering 16 f4 TN
- Sun Feb 25, 2024 11:18 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Research of some relevance to chess?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 385
Re: Research of some relevance to chess?
A different view: Not nearly as different as the headline suggests, in fact. Rippon does not question that the researchers have found what they claim to have found. I was most interested to read "It is perfectly plausible that there may be sex-related differences in how brains are shaped by social ...