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- Mon Jul 17, 2023 3:43 pm
- Forum: Congress Diary
- Topic: British Championship 2023
- Replies: 339
- Views: 31505
Re: British Championship 2023
A problem emerged somewhile back when the number of entrants and the number of entrees was discovered to be different. I'll say that again for fear of falling. Players playing in 2 events, for example, were counted as two and not just one individual. Several statistics quoted were therefore not com...
- Fri Aug 05, 2022 8:26 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Premier League Fantasy Football 2022-23
- Replies: 63
- Views: 13628
Re: Premier League Fantasy Football 2022-23
I think this may be the Scunthorpe problem rearing its head.Neil Graham wrote: ↑Thu Aug 04, 2022 10:58 pmI thought "Pending Moderation" was a rather odd name for a team. I can't see any reason why it shouldn't be approved.
I see that Paul Spiller is "Pending Moderation" as well!
- Thu Apr 09, 2020 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Pre-move -who came up with that idea?
- Replies: 27
- Views: 2992
- Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:11 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Academic theses on the subject of chess
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2714
Re: Academic theses on the subject of chess
Hi John, PM me your email address and I'll send you a pdf of it.
- Tue Mar 12, 2019 9:36 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Academic theses on the subject of chess
- Replies: 13
- Views: 2714
Re: Academic theses on the subject of chess
My MA (De Montfort, 2016) dissertation was '"The champion club of the Midland counties": a social study of the Nottingham Chess Club, 1829 - c.1904'. Others that I know of are John Sharples' PhD thesis (Lancaster), 'Minds, machines and monsters: a cultural history of chess', which became a book publ...
- Thu May 12, 2016 2:17 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1321
- Views: 122696
Re: Chess history trivia
Jane Welsh Carlyle was one of the most prominent female letter writers of the Victorian period and she certainly played chess. If the quote is hers, then I'll guess she was visiting Nottingham in which case her opponent would likely have been Joseph Neuberg. I'm afraid I have no idea as to the date ...
- Fri Dec 18, 2015 3:01 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Premier League Fantasy Football 2015-16
- Replies: 59
- Views: 10337
Re: Premier League Fantasy Football 2015-16
Taking Chelsea's lead I've rung the changes for the Xmas period; we'll see if they have the desired effect!
- Fri Jul 26, 2013 2:14 pm
- Forum: Rating Debate
- Topic: Grading timetable (June/July 2013)
- Replies: 95
- Views: 20555
Re: Grading timetable (June/July 2013)
Results from the 2012/13 Nottinghamshire League season seem to be in the 2011/12 results when selected from the drop-down menu.
- Mon Sep 24, 2012 9:36 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Chess in Evening Standard
- Replies: 29
- Views: 4782
Re: Chess in Evening Standard
(A Guardian correspondent wrote not long ago that Angela Merkel was a big football fan. I contacted them to ask what team Merkel supports. I did not get a reply.) It is possible that they may not know. Der Spiegel and Deutsche Welle have also made the claim that Merkel is a big fan of football, and...
- Fri Sep 21, 2012 6:12 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Premier League Fantasy Football
- Replies: 229
- Views: 55059
Re: Premier League Fantasy Football
So I've had a team since the start of the season, but only noticed this thread yesterday. Apologies to those I've bumped down a place...
- Tue Jul 03, 2012 10:33 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Brave New World
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7342
Re: Brave New World
(Brave New World is an interesting parallel for the new membership scheme. In the novel there are the Controllers (ECF board members), Alphas (Council members), Betas (Platinums), Gammas (Golds), Deltas (Silvers) & Epsilons (Bronzes). Outside are the savages (non-members)). [spoiler for those not f...