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5.14. Based upon the results of the anti-cheating algorithm or/and other evidence deemed sufficient by FPP to establish a cheating incident, FPP is entitled to disqualify any player for a suspected fair play violation during the course or after the conclusion of any of the Championships event. I ca...

Had you asked the players whether they wanted a balance of probabilities, a comfortable satisfaction, or a beyond reasonable doubt approach to banning cheats I would suggest that zero would have gone for the first of these options. But weren't they asked, in effect, whether they were willing to ris...

"Reasonable suspicion" may or may not be a sensible test in this context, but Mr Martynov must surely know that there can be reasonable suspicion even if the probability of that suspicion being well founded is far less than 51%. "Reasonable suspicion" means what it says: that it's reasonable (or, if...

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But I do agree that events should reasonably be classified as 'supervised activities for children'. Joseph, I'm not sure whether you mean you agree with me on this, or only with Wadih. For what it's worth, I would argue that junior chess events are probably not "supervised activities" within the me...

Purely my interpretation, but I suspect that the actual goal of the government was to allow adults to stay longer at work. Hence why there is a section on the various wonderful ways "to keep your children out of the house and under supervision", allowing parents to stay longer at work. Yes, that wo...

Joseph, you may be right about "supervised activities". But, as someone who used to draft regulations like this for a living, I have to say that if that were the intention it's rather odd for this major exception to be buried in a paragraph which is otherwise concerned with child care. I don't think...

Good spot, Joseph, but I'm not convinced. Even if the phrase "supervised activity" is, in isolation, wide enough to cover a chess tournament with an arbiter, you have to take account of the context. The rest of Exception 13 under paragraph 4 is about child care , so I think "supervised activity" is ...

Wadih, what are the "guidelines" you are looking at? The "roadmap" published on 22 Feb did say that in Step 2 "All children will be able to attend any indoor children’s activity, including sport, regardless of circumstance". But the regulations themselves, published on 22 March, don't include such a...

You can validly agree that you will not have a legal claim which, but for the agreement, you would have had. There are certain exceptions, but I doubt that any of them are relevant here.

In this case the risk is not just to those who choose to take it. Those who contract Covid are a danger to others. So it is for society, not the individual, to assess whether the risk presented by an activity is acceptable. If the risk involved in going to a pub or restaurant is acceptable, I agree ...

While I in no way minimise the risks of covid, I don't get why some try to depict chess as an extremely high risk activity while many participants demonstrated that the levels of safety in a properly run event is lower than a pub, hairdresser or dinner with 5 friends. Exactly this. The question is ...

Wadih Khoury wrote: ↑

Fri Oct 30, 2020 7:29 pm

If covid levels go back to this summer's levels, other countries proved that big tournaments can be safely held.

How do you know that those tournaments were safely held?

I couldn't do that; but I'm wondering how the board would know when my birthday is, given that my profile doesn't say.

The practical question is whether an internal club or even county tournament of more than six people could be run in premises used for community purposes. The participants would most likely know one another. At present the answer is probably yes. But it's impossible to be sure, because the legislat...