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There's a minority of juniors who behave poorly although, if they belong to a decent junior club, they're soon told to snap out of it. But it has always been so - you can tell who were the offending juniors X years ago by the way a minority of adults, now aged around X+10, behave today.

"Even loyal ministers are deeply worried - "She is like a chess player who only has the king left - all she can do is move one square at a time until she is check-mated." BBC News website, analysing Theresa May's Brexit situation.

It's certainly a useful paper in, if nothing more, serving as a comprehensive reference point for things one should be doing but isn't. Thanks to Tim Wall for taking the trouble to compile it. Trouble at local level is that implementation of every idea would require a decent-sized organising team, w...

"At the moment, we are working on fulfilling promises given before the elections" - A Dvorkovich, at above-mentioned Press conference.

Well, call me cynical if you like but it's good to know those promises weren't immediately forgotten following a successful election.

It's not the first time an ECF Board has made a FIDE call not widely supported. The decision to act as a front for Kasparov in attempting to waste Kirsan's/FIDE's money on legal fees being one. With respect, it's the Board's task to exercise its collective judgment rather than follow the herd. In a...

Yes, the decision was as difficult as that. And that is why the decision to support Makro is not surprising; but the unanimity of the decision, on the other hand, is hard satisfactorily to explain. Quite so. Faced with what many of us would agree was a difficult decision between three imperfect opt...

Maybe Short père should acquaint himself with the record of the government in which Dvorkovich served when it comes to corruption . It can probably be assumed that we're all aware of the less savoury aspects of the Putin regime and, for anyone living in Wiltshire, corruption won't be the only issue...

To link "Fallout from FIDE Elections" to the suitability of the ECF president seems to me something of a stretch. It's in the nature of things that some people are never happy with the status quo, no matter what that might be, but I think the quality of the present ECF Board compares favourably with...

I've only recently come across this thread but I knew John reasonably well in the 1980's (although I don't recall our ever discussing politics, which perhaps was just as well) and would echo what many others have already said about him - a thoroughly nice man and a memorable eccentric. RIP.

Copyright law varies from country to country but, in the United States, copyright typically expires 95 years after publication which I suspect explains the significance of the year 1923.

Thanks, Michael and John, and your comprehensive communication has been posted in its entirety on the Watford club website. It deserves wider currency and maybe other clubs with suitable websites could do the same?

I would have thought Tim's comment was entirely within the spirit not just of this particular campaign but of past campaigns and FIDE politics generally. Take it as an hommage. That is a quite disgraceful comment from Tim Wall. He deserves both barrels - though I wonder if he's drunk them before po...

That is a quite disgraceful comment from Tim Wall. He deserves both barrels - though I wonder if he's drunk them before posting. Whatever the merits or otherwise of the various parties in the election, we surely do not need this level of comment. Would Tim Wall welcome a few comments on his relatio...

Actually, this is Ray extolling (for the most part) the virtues of someone else which, it has to be said, isn't the commonest of occurrences.

Wonder if all the organisations that were supporting Nigel were aware of his intentions? I think they would have had to be naïve not to view this as, at least, a possibility. It seems to me (and, I'm sure, to others) obvious that Nigel realised he couldn't win and so, perfectly sensibly, has done h...