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I was very disappointed to hear from a good friend of mine that lichess had restricted his activity because of "violations" which they will not specify. Good news, as my friend reports: LiChess have said that they are constantly improving their cheating detection s/w, but that in my case it flagged...

It would be great if we could get the security details sooner rather than later in order to provide feedback. In my opinion, for an event the calibre of the British, it would not be acceptable to not have audio/video/screen recording of the players. Although there is no sponsor or prize money I hop...

Phil Ehr, past CEO and Director of Junior Chess of the ECF, was standing in District 1 of the Florida elections for the House of Representatives. With 94% of the votes counted, Matt Gaetz (Republican) has 64.6% of the vote and is on course to win by a large margin. Phil Ehr (Democrat) has 34% and Al...

Regarding the Lichess website, though it is not strictly relevant to the question of cheating, there are some slightly odd features. ..... Another feature that often irritates is the tendency to be told that "letting time run out rather than resigning" can lead to a temporary suspension. I have bee...

The following appeal has appeared on chess24.com

https://chess24.com/en/read/news/englis ... ur-of-need

The latest membership ECF membership figures, as of 19 September, may be seen at:

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/wp-cont ... s-2020.pdf

........... For NEDs, the candidates CV probably more important than their agenda, Natasha Regan and Stephen Greep seem excellent to me. ............ Natasha Regan is the sole candidate for the NED vacancy. Dr Stephen Greep is one of two candidates for the Governance Committee, which has no fixed s...

As advertised in the ECF Newsletter, ECF webmaster Andrew Walker has started a section on the history of chess at club, league and county levels:

https://www.ecfresource.co.uk/chess-histories/

The candidates have been announced:

https://www.englishchess.org.uk/agm-ann ... andidates/

The Armenian Chess Federation has written to FIDE (the document is on Facebook): Letter of RA Minister of Education, Science, Culture and Sports to FIDE President. I want to be assured that FIDE will provide explanation to the participants of this tournament and chess community at large on this inci...

Canadian GM Kevin Spraggett has some scathing comments in his blog about Dvorkovich's ruling:

http://www.spraggettonchess.com/chess-c ... FoZXIlzEN0

You would think they would have recruited a few "reserve" members of the "disputes committee" in advance. Agreed. It makes you wonder what FIDE would have done if a dispute in the Semi-Final between Russia and USA had gone to appeal, leaving just IA Sava Stoisavljevic (Serbia) in splendid isolation...

FIDE has posted in haste: https://www.fide.com/news/721 I say in haste due to the lack of proof-reading: "Inida and Russia win gold medals" * It sounds as though the two remaining members of the Appeals Committee (President Dvorkovich recusing himself) were split about what to do and so Dvorkovich ...

FIDE has posted in haste: https://www.fide.com/news/721 I say in haste due to the lack of proof-reading: "Inida and Russia win gold medals" * It sounds as though the two remaining members of the Appeals Committee (President Dvorkovich recusing himself) were split about what to do and so Dvorkovich m...

I've experienced several disconnections playing online chess and see them as an occupational hazard of the activity. It's why I only play Bullet and Blitz for fun and not slow Rapidplay or Standard play, especially in a team event where connection problems let others down. i used to play a lot on ch...