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I actually enjoyed Colm's "rant". Far from being a rant it was a well thought out, reasoned and balanced argument. The responses he drew from Roger were the opposite of that. This disappointed me as I have observed Roger debating vigorously and accurately on other topics. 1-0 to Colm

...when we were treated fairly (re grading conversion) I think that's the second time you've alluded to something like this. For the uninitiated (i.e. me) can you tell what it means? there was a conversion from scottish to english grades that worked for years Sean, it got changed several years ago ...

as a "sweaty sock" i can shed light on this topic, we get results in England graded only if we submit them,, if we dont they dont get graded. there is no cost. of course that is if we are members of Chess Scotland. as for wallets and crowbars , when we were treated fairly (re grading conversion) we ...

Nice to see big numbers for what is an excellent tournament. However there has been a drop off in numbers from Scotland since the (re)grading of the Scots a few years ago. A pity really as we really enjoyed the weekend despite not a lot of success.

"Presumably the offer of Russian scholarships was unconditional and in no way connected to Nigeria being expected to commit to vote for the Kirsan ticket at the Presidential election."

every offer is conditional, to "presume" otherwise is naive, if it were not it would have been made years ago.

No Linares super tournament took place in 1996, because Rentero (The grocery stores’ tycoon Luis Rentero Suárez and tournament sponsor) had been involved in the world championship match between Zsuzsa Polgar and Xie Jun. I suspect he did not play in 95 due to his (Kasparov's) embarrassment at his...

"War is a quarrel between two thieves too cowardly to fight their own battle."

the logo for the non members could be a Patron Saint. e.g St Antony of Padua (patron of the poor)
or St Leonard of Noblac (Patron against robbery)

i drew with a GM in a simul, is this bragging? and do i get a norm for this?

perhaps Mr Williams (or for that matter Master Williams) could put Greg Breed on to the log burner? Perhaps the acrid smell of sour grapes would be too much.

YOU CANT

How did they know?

Justin - Ray Keene plagiarised the obituary of the lightbulb, and CJ and Nigel were probably involved as well. Questions should be asked.

whatever can he mean?

Warren Kingston wrote:Or get a muppet to play your moves.....................




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I think i've cut out the middleman

although this string has moved away from the original query many good points have been made. But please watch out for the serious bullying that does go on. Challenge the perp and inform the arbiter/controller. Cheers.

We dont have that problem of weakened teams playing against us. In fact the opposite is true, every one of our opposing teams play their strongest in order to stuff us. The price to pay for being popular
It's not a conspiracy when you know they are out to get ya!