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It is much better to play even if 5% cheat than not - still worth it for the other 95% of games. i will be entering my grandson.

John Reyes wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 18, 2020 6:39 pm

i hope everyone here in the forum will support the ecf by paying their membership early please

Well said John. It is good to see such positivity.

/ People are big fans of what we have put on our pages, and I hope that Members of the ECF will Support the ECF till OTB chess happen again John the forumites might like to see a copy of an email i sent to my bronze representative, Angus French was was as follows (with apologies for the slightly dy...

How did you get on over with this project over the last few months? I was very pleased with how it went. We got 28 children signed up pretty quickly and ran sessions for eight weeks but then doing two clubs each week as well as selling my buisness proved too time consuming and i had stopped when th...

You can stop zoom bombing by setting up the meeting with a waiting room (you only let in those you want), having microphones off by default and limiting screen sharing to the host. I'm not sure if the last one is possible in the free version of zoom. Edit: and using a password for each meeting whic...

I am delighted to announce that CSC has now formally launched its #chessathome offering for schools, children and parents following the Easter break. This offering is designed to support schools, children and parents during the Covid-19 lockdown and the ambition is to teach chess to 1 million child...

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 19, 2020 6:26 pm

Alan Kennedy wrote: ↑

Sun Apr 19, 2020 5:00 pm

I have just heard that CSC have teamed up with Chesskid.com.

Please also see Chris Fegan's announcement at viewtopic.php?f=7&t=10746.

thanks David

I have just heard that CSC have teamed up with Chesskid.com. The email says: One million ChessKids - Free Online Lessons and Play to July 20! CSC is delighted to announce the launch of our campaign to get one million children playing chess in the UK during lockdown. We have teamed up with ChessKid t...

Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑

Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:34 pm

Good luck Alan!

thanks

Roger thank you very much for your post. It too was a silver lining amongst a black cloud. To build any initiative you need to address the limiting factors. There is underlying my post 4 limiting factors. 1 is to find the coaches 2. it to find the players and 3 is to resource the teaching material. ...

An open letter to EC forumites Dear Forumites My daughter Abi is like many others locked own with her two boys, Asher and Jonah, aged 4 and 6 and her husband Dave. Dave fortunately has a job but Abi is climbing the walls as she now has to entertain her two boys all day every day (no nursery or schoo...

Thanks Adam - i have some very heartening feedback. It got me thinking about how we as chess players should respond to COVID 19 crisis or to paraphrase a well known phrase "what did you do in the COVID 19 crisis, Daddy?". Is my village and family is anything to go by there are lots of young couples ...

Many years ago, a member of my club, who taught at a Middle School, had started a chess club there and asked if I would do a simul there. I agreed, and asked how many pupils were playing. "Oh, about 200." "WHAT!? How many pupils are there? "Just over 200." "That's amazing." "Well once enough got in...

When concentrating on ensuring children in need FSM have a meal to eat we realised the same 40% Primary age have no access to internet at home. challenging For Schools to educate them. Not as if benefits pay enough. I'm pleased that your parents have a choice and you are tapping into CSC and Richar...

Zoom appears to be on a barred list Education and Childrens services. When the security scares about Zoom came to the fore we consulted an IT expert and agreed the following protocols : 1 Advising users not to sign in using the same password as other systems and 2 not to click on chat links or shar...