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I'm sure being a team captain can't be good for your grade. I can think of two sorts of reason why it can have a adverse effect: (i) Distractions during your own game. For example, chasing up missing team members or trying to arrange substitutes once the match has started. Or interruptions at crucia...

Additionally they were selecting board numbers and using the metal detector wand before the game on those in that pairing. If there were any other checks being carried out, they weren't publicised. There were also random post-game metal detector checks (I waa subject to one), inluding the lesser se...

My time at the Festival is now over for this year. I'm too exhausted to consider any of the quick stuff this weekend. I would like to give a big thank you to the organisers and arbiting team who performed professionally and competently throughout. When problems did arise, they appeared to deal with ...

The last year without registration, we had 20 defaults in Round 1. So we had to do something! Last year in the U1600 Weekender (for which no registration was required) in the first round on the Friday night over a quarter of all the games were shown as defaulted - and this figure will exclude succe...

Howard Berlin who is the Conservative candidate for Ilford North plays for Ilford Chess Club. I played him once in a league match a few years ago, but no nothing much about him.

Might you be able to report back, post event, Nigel, possibly with some pictures? It was again a hugely enjoyable event, won by the German GM Michael Prusikin with an impressive 10/11. My modest 4 points was about in line with rating expectations, given that nearly a third of participants were rate...

The Chess Train 2019 is held under the auspices of the Minister of Transport Vladimír Kremlík ... Surely the surname/family name is misspelt? Kremlik seems to have got himself in big political trouble by attending our departure today. He turned up early (before 9am) & seemed to have fun trolling th...

We set off again tomorrow morning. Numbers seem to be a bit down this year, which I hope doesn't jeopardise its contiuance, given there were some doubts about its future last year which thankfully appear to have been resolved.

The last year without registration, we had 20 defaults in Round 1. So we had to do something! Last year in the U1600 Weekender (for which no registration was required) in the first round on the Friday night over a quarter of all the games were shown as defaulted - and this figure will exclude succe...

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Fri Sep 13, 2019 2:26 pm

Nepo held with White by Predke. I was intrigued on looking up the latter to see he was from Dimitrovgrad - how many Russian cities named after Communist leaders in the Soviet period have retained those names in the modern era? (Tolyatti is another one, I note.)

Kaliningrad is another.

But the rules on the Grand Prix web page say default wins are not counted, so the 20th 4NCL would only score 87 +4 = 91, I think.

David Clayton has confirmed that this was an oversight. The tournament has now been registered and the file submitted. David has said that the secretary of the FIDE Qualifications Committee is aware of the situation and will approve the registration. It will then be rated and included on a future S...

Without the results from the Under-1750 at the British Championships :( Indeed, because the ECF never registered it, and thus never submitted the rating file either. Looks like you should write an email to David Clayton and Kevin Staveley. I spotted this omission from the September rating list yest...

The FIDE September list was published today. Without the results from the Under-1750 at the British Championships :( Indeed, because the ECF never registered it, and thus never submitted the rating file either. Looks like you should write an email to David Clayton and Kevin Staveley. I spotted this...

I can't find this covered in the laws of chess (unless it counts as distracting behaviour). A player picks up a piece and moves it to a square, but realising that is a bad move doesn't release it. Instead they stand up and walk away from the board still holding the piece. They spend several minutes...