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It is difficult to see Tim's comments without the context of his long running dispute with Mike Truran. If one of the people in the CSC team runs for CEO against Mike at the AGM I might vote for them, depending on the respective policy proposals. But I am a bit uncomfortable with an attempt to stop...

According to Tim's own election literature, I seem to remember he saw his job as representing the views of his constituents. I suppose it all depends on whether we believe our elected representatives should vote as their electorate tells them or [where the two conflict] for what they believe to be ...

For the record, I intend to vote the only way my conscience will let me Taking into account the wishes of the members you represent is out of the question, then? That's a bit hard, Nick. We're a parliamentary democracy based [well, theoretically at least] on MPs voting according to their consciences.

Thanks Geoff for posting this. Perhaps you could post a regular update at the beginning of each month in the 250k posts Topic. I noticed I joined the forum exactly a year ago today. I hope I've been a good influence. I can't believe I've done over 1120 posts and I'm only 30 posts behind Roger L and...

I'll defer to the real greybeards here but certainly not in the past 60 years.

It wasn't so long ago that an English FM was advertising himself [in this forum and presumably elsewhere to attract students] as having an online rating in excess of 3000. His FIDE ratings were then, and obstinately remain, in the region of 2250. I'm certainly not suggesting. and I have no reason t...

If a weaker player has got themselves up to say 2500 they have to maintain it by using a computer. It wasn't so long ago that an English FM was advertising himself [in this forum and presumably elsewhere to attract students] as having an online rating in excess of 3000. His FIDE ratings were then, ...

According to chess.com, "the rate of false positives detected by our algorithm is intentional." Does anyone know what this rate is, and what we think this rate should be? Seems a rather meaningless sentence - I'm guessing that it means that, if their statistical model is accurate , then they assess...

If there's not a rule in any given competition, there ought to be. Otherwise all the pressure will be on the player who is being asked for one. I think this pinpoints one of the main problems - if an otherwise competent opponent moves his queen from d1 to d7, where it can be captured, instead of ex...

Alternatively, taking my other number being 3000 players with an average of 10 games each, this would take too long for the human team simply because there were 10 times as many suspects to investigate. Yes, but we know from looking at the Chess.com cheat numbers which are in the public domain that...

Matthew - you're selectively using one of the two numbers - 300 and 3000 - I mentioned. In the first case, where the typical player has 100 games for consideration, it all depends. If he or she is an obvious cheat, following Stockfish or another engine all the time, then obviously this wouldn't take...

Matthew, you aren't rebutting my Lichess numbers, just coming up with what Chess.com claim. It's entirely possible that their claim is true but I've no greater reason to believe Chess.com than any other organisation with a product to sell. Furthermore, since neither platform wishes to disclose its m...

Congratulations

And, if you go to https://lichess.org/forum/lichess-feedback/lichess-total-games-played, you'll find that - a year ago - there were reckoned to be 1.5 to 2 million games played each day. I'd guess that it's now at least 2.5 million - which equates to around 900 million each year. Some of those would...

For the record, 7 months ago Lichess claimed almost 8 million members

thibault
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