English Chess Forum

In December (25th) I noted that three of seven congresses I had taken part in had not appeared in the list of events submitted to the ECF Grading team. Only one of these has appeared in the following three and a half weeks. One of those missing was fairly early in the season, end of September, while...

From the Chess Scotland website, grading 'search players' Bearsden :- 1 [1] 16689 GM Jacob Aagaard 15 2482 2462 -20 2 [2] 21675 IM Andrew N Greet 25 2440 2400 -40 3 [3] 15053 Stuart A White 40 2114 2109 -5 4 [5] 6425 Jeff R L Webb 5 1994 1974 -20 Updated on a weekly basis. According to website Jeff ...

Obsessive? I think you really meant obscene Andrew. To be honest I have to agree with Geoff, the money available to the 'top echelon' of chess players is out of proportion to the benefit they provide to the chess playing public. The London Classic this year provided little in the way of entertainmen...

Some improvement in the speedy reporting of congress results will certainly be needed for any monthly grading. I have taken part in seven events in England so far this season. Results for only four of these congresses are presently available on the grading site, and three of these were at the Britis...

Membership numbers quoted are too high by a factor of ten.

The most irritating behaviour I have encountered was from one junior who left the board immediately after making his move. Upon his return he would ask "What did you move?". After about 15 or so instances of this, I said "If you sit at the table you will see it", and refused to tell him. He almost b...

Well, I have an interest in this, having played in the British last summer. I am a member of both Chess Scotland (grade 1086) and The English Chess Federation (grade 95A) this year. Last year I gained a rather inflated Fide rating of 1454, since reduced to 1440. I play nearly as much outside Scotlan...

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Only one minute and 5400 posts behind Carl.

You simply hit the + sign again. If you hover over it, you are told that it toggles between off and on.

After reading all the responses, I tried to renew using the link from the Federation membership page, and it failed, again.
I then tried using the link suggested by Michael Flatt, and succeeded in renewing my membership at the first attempt. Thank you Michael.

I can't even get that far. The program steadfastly refuses to recognise my password, even saying when I try to reset it that the two identical phrases do not match.
The office was unable to renew my membership when I gave in and tried phoning.

Surely DGT use RFIDs not magnets. There are only two magnetic poles, insufficient by a large margin for chess pieces. Separate RFIDs at either end of a rook may be distinguishable, but I do not know enough about the technology to be sure. There would certainly be a big task to update all the existin...

I always looked out for new videos. Will be missed.

Missed this offer, playing badly at Scarborough. Could have benefitted from at least 5 of them.