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There's an announcement, including funeral arrangement, in the Northern Echo: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/announ ... OHN_MOLES/

It's certainly a welcome change. For myself I'm not too interested in casting stones after the fact: if they were going to make this change at all, best do it quickly. It's now back to discussions between the ICU and the various tournament organisers, so let's leave them to it.

A further announcement has been made on the ICU web site (http://www.icu.ie/articles/487, February 1): ------- Since announcing the decision to strictly apply the above policy with effect from 1 February 2015, a number of concerns about its operational impact have been expressed to the ICU Executive...

Who knows? If I had to guess I'd say players in the Masters won't care: the higher the rating, the more the FIDE rating is the "real" one. The lower sections would be more affected. All an issue for next year, perhaps, since the change was made far too late for this year's event, well after entries ...

I can't speak for the organisers, but the purported new ICU policy only applies to ICU-rated events. Since one of the main attractions of Bunratty is that it's not FIDE-rated, it's hard to believe anyone cares at all whether it's ICU-rated or not. (Quick, without looking: were previous Bunratty even...

Although this is universally attributed to O'Kelly (by, e.g., Pachman, Zeuthen & Jarlnaes, Moles, Suetin, Schiller, and Korchnoi), it turns out that this isn't quite right. It is given in O'Kelly's column in Europe Echecs, vol. 7, nos. 80-81, 5 September-5 October 1965, p. 192, but it's attributed t...

Stewart knows better than I do what happened tp Conor in later life, but as far as I know no one in the English chess community has seen him since. He's living in Thailand, some say he skipped the country with an outstanding warrant, although I don't know whether that is true or not. He became a su...

The English police have not so far come to that judgement and are investigating the allegations. The English police can and have investigated crimes allegedly committed by British citizens in other countries. The English courts can and have imposed severe sanctions on false and defamatory statement...

Then the police will come to that judgement as well if the alleged actions did not happen to the family.. The Austrian police (i.e. the force that have jurisdiction in this matter) have already come to that same judgement. The English police have not so far come to that judgement and are investigat...

If the allegations are false, then they shouldn't have any long-term effect on the ECF's treatment of a coach.

I'm surprised that Peter thinks that the ECF should postpone action. Why? If a parent complains to the ECF, the ECF should address the matter, promptly and thoroughly.

There's something a bit asymmetric about the discussion so far, which seems a bit odd. The allegations might be true, or they might be false. (I have no extra information on which.) If they're true, then it's a serious issue. The original ECF statement said so, and Peter continues to stress the poss...