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Can I Alex...please...Can I? No! Any claim of longevity by Hastings relates only to England. Since the original post compared Paignton to the BRITISH Championship I thought mentioning another British event was acceptable. I certainly don't dispute the Hastings claims if you limit it to England.

Unfortunately I was unable to join tonight's webinar about on-line chess. There are two points I would have liked to have had clarified which I think are relevant to this thread and recent posts on it. The stigma attached could be reduced if sites actually said that there was an error factor in thei...

I too am a member of the Hastings Committee. My challenge though is in regards to an event which with the exception of war years and CV year has been running continuously since 1884 is the Scottish Championships. As well as the Championship (in the early years called the Major but the winner was Cha...

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Tue May 26, 2020 3:27 pm

Prague 1931 had 19 teams and therefore 18 rounds

Hi John,

19 teams requires 19 rounds as each team would have had a bye. The idea of triangular matches a la 4NCL was not used!!

I think this rule is questionable because it's inconsistent with the rest of the Laws. Elsewhere in the rules, when a player plays an illegal move the position is reset Agreed. The logic for it being a queen was that (allegedly) in some positions players, very short of time, were not exchanging the...

Normally a move is made when the piece is released on the board. When it is a capture there is the addition that the captured piece must be removed. When it is a promotion there is the addition that the pawn must be replaced by another piece. Normally the move is completed when the clock is pressed....

From the ECU website on restarting chess. The full document and a Youtube link is here https://www.europechess.org/how-to-restart-otb-chess-activities/ Some of the main requirements: It is recommended to start with small scale events with limited participants (e.g. round robin tournaments). It is re...

I will not start this post by saying "With all due respect to Roger"!! :D However, the pawn can be promoted to any piece and it is mate provided the promotion is made before the fallen flag is noticed. The Rook on g8 is protected by the bishop on a2 so promotion to Q or R is not the only way of gett...

Problem solved. I have put in a bulk order with a supplier for Dominic Cummings masks. Once these arrive normal chess can resume immediately with no worries about breaking sanctions. Claims that the opponent is being distracting by pulling grotesque faces will be dismissed :D On a more serious note,...

But why do chess servers make it easy for those who might be tempted by making available real time analysis of games in progress? A recent Blitz was broadcast with a 2 second delay. I've no idea if this is standard but even such a small delay impacts significantly on the possibility of getting ille...

Does that mean they are using the flawed logic that a player is cheating by virtue of playing better than his or her rating? From what I was told it was the surprisingly high quality of the moves that flagged the player. So playing better than rating came into it but was not the exclusive factor.

It would certainly be impressive if they rejected any. I heard today that one such 'disqualification' was over-ruled by the arbiters in Saturday's French Blitz. The player was aged 7 and had been playing above expectation. It was investigated and because of certain circumstances explained to the ar...

I could be wrong but the way I read an article written by the person behind Tornelo is that the only anti-cheating measures it has is the integrity of the participants. If correct, this does not seem to be an appropriate platform on which to offer prizes. Its pairings are also non-standard. It appro...

Here's one for a former President of the Scottish Chess Association and Glasgow Chess Club.
Does that count?

https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/vis ... bonar-law/

Hi Guys,

I was never in Russia but only at the end of a phone line. I was a reserve for the Appeals Panel if there had been a dispute involving Giri.

I'm pleased to say that my mobile phone, having been switched on for a record length of time, is now back in its normal dormant state.