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Thank you - apologies for any misinformation - but you don't seem to contradict what I've written - one would still have to walk up the drive. I was only going by GoogleMaps, which many will do when determining if they wish to play - perhaps add public transport information on the website?

CN 3754 https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/winter10.html

A bus apparently runs to 1 mile away - service back on Sunday is every two hours. Far from ideal that travel by public transport is so inconvenient

Ah ha!

Post by Andy Stoker » Mon Jan 20, 2020 5:20 am

"Grist for the mill" is similar to "Fuel for the fire" .... something that keeps the entity going. It doesn't mean "excuse"

It's something that can be used in a positive way

FWIW, I recently received a chess.com snotagram with the news that I had misbehaved and wasn't allowed to make any comments for 24 hours. I am (generally) very well-behaved and couldn't understand this, so I queried it and soon received a message that one of their algorithms had incorrectly fingered...

"Grist for the mill" is similar to "Fuel for the fire" .... something that keeps the entity going. It doesn't mean "excuse"

Very sorry to read this. Rob and I overlapped at Pembroke College - he was a couple of years younger and a much stronger player. A nice person.

Please look again - 5 lines down in the first paragraph

My apologies - I misunderstood your post. "Grist to the mill" means something that it is useful for a particular purpose or helps support someone's point of view.- https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/grist-to-the-mill So the tabloid newspapers print celebrity gossip (the grist to th...

Look, it doesn't need ECF or any official body to make a nomination - an individual can make the application - perhaps supported by a letter from ECF or similar, but this is not essential. I did it for my mum and she had a great day out at the Palace and felt the award validated how she had lived he...

Sac = Sacrifice

Exchange Sacrifice mean giving up Rook for Knight or Bishop

See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_exchange_(chess)

Were you not able to look this up yourself?

Just taken the opportunity to hear the Josie Long programme - intelligent, gentle, effervescent - if she really is as enthusiastic as she sounds, then hope she gets more involved with a higher profile. She made the first move for Adams at the recent London tournament - unfortunately d4, not the move...

Sorry to be tedious but I still think it is wrong to discuss a child by name, draw attention to his results on chess.com etc. Simple basic child protection. Smacks of Trump vs Thunberg.

I think there is a significant safeguarding issue naming and discussing in this way someone who is under 16. Whilst I recognise that individual comments have been proscribed, I wonder if the whole thread should be taken down. I recognise that the comments on this thread do not seem to be addressed b...