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Was there any consultation with anyone about the dates, format, entry fees, regulations of this event?

You can buy Boris Gelfand's books as ebooks - which makes it a lot easier to play through the variations!

https://bit.ly/thechesscircuitforward

However no sign of a similar ebook for Keith's book yet.

Just had a message from Amazon telling me that they have rejected my review. They don't give a reason which rather puts me off doing any other reviews on Amazon. This is a little like the mentality of Lichess when banning someone : we're telling you done something wrong but we won't tell you what i...

tonight you can play a couple of friendly games (15 mins each) here - https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/chess-england/events/2-a-b-academy-chess-england-class/ and next weekend (14-15 Nov) we are doing another Hampstead Congress https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/chess-england/events/hampstead-congress--8/...

The player complained and chess.com backed down and apologised . From the linked piece As you all know, we give our moderators the power to kick people from games for abuse. One of our mods used this power thinking that PalenciaJulio was cheating. This was a complete mistake. Is it really right for...

Mick Norris wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 03, 2020 4:03 pm

You must find chess players very strange Andrew, dealing with us as a non-player

You don't have to be a non-player.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:32 pm

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:22 pm

The typical software disregards any moves which have been played before (theory)

OK, but what is meant by (theory) here

true, this should read (="theory") - all that has gone before in practice

Adam

I have been made aware of (at least) some of the criteria used to "decide" if a game has been played with external assistance. One of those which struck me was the opening move cut-off is considered to be move 8. i.e. moves 1-8 are disregarded and moves 9 onwards are considered to be ripe for analy...

I see that one of the players in the 4NCL Online Autumn Congress who reached 4/4 is now shown on chess-results with 0/4 and not paired in the remaining rounds. His games are not on lichess when you look through his opponent's results for them, so I assume his lichess account has been closed. They h...

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 3:28 pm

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:36 am

Starting this Wednesday!

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/london-c ... ess-league

Will the London Chess League Online be ECF Online Rated?

Not on this occasion, no.

From Saturdays Times Review A six part series starts on Netflix on Friday. It is adapted from Walter Trevis's 1983 novel The Queens Gambit "About a female chess prodigy who takes on the might of the Soviet Union while struggling with her own mental health and alcohol addiction " Ben Graff and I wil...

Starting this Wednesday!

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/london-c ... ess-league

David Cordover did a couple of webinars on the topic of Fair Play yesterday, and the link to the Youtube video and the Facebook video are below (2hrs) https://youtu.be/4utD1bOJs14 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=373235263720314 Useful Links https://tornelo.tawk.help/article/interpreting-a-fair-pla...