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the same probably applies to the story, in a separate thread on this forum and involving entirely different people, concerning considerable sums of pension fund money. I'm failing to see the substantial difference between the relevance of that story and this one. I'm not sure there's a substantial ...

It's a media story involving a chessplayer Yes, I understand that - and late payment or [worse still] non-payment of wages undoubtedly causes hardship, as well as being unlawful, so I'm certainly not condoning it. To be clear, I'd never heard of Dave Hackett before this arose and I don't know the f...

And today's chess player in the news for discreditable business practices is Dave Hackett . At least they didn't call him a chess master (or indeed reference the game at all). Oh for sure. I only noticed because the story popped up on a friend's Facebook, due I think to either their child or a frie...

Lionel Burrell starred alongside Charlie Chaplin in Midnight Express, Charlie Chaplin's first speaking film in 1931. I can recall the Midnight Express film of 1978, which caused quite a furore at the time, but not an earlier similarly-titled film. Curiously, when I checked the full list of Charlie ...

I played King takes King Bishop two check. Bishop takes King Bishop two check, presumably. Could be K if it's discovered check. "King Bishop two" makes no sense if it's a capture. If it's BxB then the "King" in the "King Bishop" is probably redundant. Makes little sense as the writer claims to have...

Alex Holowczak is just about the only ECF Director who posts on this Forum regularly. I don't always agree with what he says, but I normally find the content informative and useful. If that continues, we can count ourselves singularly fortunate. After what Alex has been subjected to on the last cou...

"For the moment Worcestershire CA and Katarzyna are claiming a new chess record"

Prima facie, you do indeed have a county first in that Katarzyna appears to be the first woman to play on top board for Worcestershire.

"Quite how he managed to have a conversation without realising it was confidential escapes me." Maybe it wasn't confidential at the time, then someone realised later, that they didn't want it discussed, so decided retrospectively it was confidential? A conversation either was confidential or was no...

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 16, 2020 11:13 am

Cheers, Roger! Always happy to stand corrected

Does ATM PARENT foot the bill?

LOL, an ATM PARENT might end up footing the bill in more ways than one.

I was a near-contemporary of Paul in our junior days so I'm sorry to hear of his death.

John is obviously entitled to his opinion and has chosen an entirely civilised approach to expressing it. As for myself, I remain [and intend to remain] in the dark - really not interested! - as to the exact nature of the indiscretion which to my mind is an entirely different question to how, if at ...

Not True. I was in the same class.... SNIP... John... told us how we could beat the Sicilian. ... SNIP... And he did building blocks. One day I proudly showed teacher that I spelt ARM NET and TAP . John appeared and quickly arranged the bricks into: APARTMENT . He could've swapped an 'A' for an 'E ...

Can you elaborate on exactly what course of action Alex H should have taken so that he wouldn't "simply draw added attention to it"? Certainly not. I wouldn't presume to tell someone who has made an error of judgment exactly how best to mitigate the resulting situation. Over the years I've occasion...

John McKenna wrote: ↑

Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:34 pm

I don't.
Alex H was right to retract - even if he won't come clean.

I think you've misunderstood me - I lamented the consequences of Alex's action in "doing the correct thing".