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Five coaches between twenty eight competitors does not strike me as an unreasonable ratio. That goes straight to the top of your five most ridiculous comments in this place The ratio of coaches to players is not, at this point, in question. It's the ratio of player performance to coach value-added ...

If the point of the Armageddon is to influence the chess in the main tournament *in a positive way* then they’ve got it back to front. What they should have done is have the Armageddon only after games with a decisive result, a second opportunity for any defeated player, if you like. Eg. Players dr...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 05, 2018 9:37 am

Also note the Shakespeare misquotation

Nit-picking aside, quite a decent article.

There's no real point in redacting a name when it's patently obvious who it is from the publicly available information. Unless there are legal reasons I'm not at all sure I agree that they shouldn't be named in any case. Surely damage to reputation is a rather deserved consequence of cheating(and p...

Here's another one. Ethics Commission has delivered a light punishment to a Russian GM who has made unsubstantiated accusations on the Internet against a young female player. He has received support from a group of GMs - mostly from Eastern Europe, of course, but it is disappointing to see Jacob Aa...

I agree that over centralisation, huge budgets along with poor accountablity inevitably leads to corruption and poor value. I'm not sure how this applies to the ECF but you make a strong case for Brexit.

"For example, there was no evidence that playing sudoku would help you manage your finances any better, it added."

I'm guessing this report doesn't carry much scientific weight.

I see . Many thanks.

NickFaulks wrote:

Kevin Thurlow wrote: Is Emil Sutovsky's Facebook page a primary source?

Furthermore, Sutovsky's ACP Facebook page is better avoided unless you like to see highly respected British players suffer totally unsupported accusations of cheating.

Did I miss something? What was this about?

It's all just cheating. I don't understand such comments at all. How can it be cheating to use a computer in tournaments where use of a computer is specifically permitted? You might as well say that cycling is cheating because you're enhancing your performance by using a bicycle. If you play chess ...

I wonder why more of these correspondence players don't venture out otb to demonstrate their deep positional understanding...

Looking at the game in my view it was full of inaccuracies; Akshaya was clearly better in the early middle game then drifted into a worse position where Black horribly blundered into the lost position, then Akshaya missed numerous chances to finish it off a lot earlier, then came the final error le...

Cut prize money for the lower sections and move it to the open. Problem solved!

Are the ICU going to ban themselves for bringing themselves into disrepute? A four month ban is not enough. I realise Mr Mirza was possibly a bit over-zealous, but why should he get a longer ban? The child allegedly cheated in a game of chess. The adult allegedly assaulted a child. In my opinion, t...

I think it would have been sensible not to claim tbh. Option A - Claim the game on a technicality You feel dis-satisfied as it spoils the game Your opponent feels aggrieved It spoils the atmosphere of a friendly match and everyone goes away feeling a bit crappy Option B - Don't claim You win anyway ...