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- Fri Feb 15, 2019 6:39 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Chess Put Forward To Join Paris 2024 Olympic Games
- Replies: 32
- Views: 1151
Re: Chess Put Forward To Join Paris 2024 Olympic Games
Maybe a novel , "Chariots Of Fire" image might help to get support via spectator interest: team blitz (or rapid) with an average grade constraint??
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 10:47 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Batumi Olympiad
- Replies: 983
- Views: 35788
Re: Batumi Olympiad
What’s wrong with just using game points? Richard I agree: simple widely understood systems have much to commend them. If complex tie-breaks are really needed for the OLympiad then I think screens in the playing hall should show the LIVE position. Of course some simple projection method with robust...
- Fri Oct 05, 2018 9:24 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Batumi Olympiad
- Replies: 983
- Views: 35788
Re: Batumi Olympiad
I don't.Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Fri Oct 05, 2018 8:51 amI find myself somehow supporting China v USA. Do others feel the same way?
Doubtless the Chinese have the more effective President but Wesley So ( and NiC) produced the best 1 b3 video ever!
- Thu Oct 04, 2018 3:55 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Batumi Olympiad
- Replies: 983
- Views: 35788
Re: Batumi Olympiad
How are ENGLAND TIGERS doing against RUSSIA HEFFALUMPS?
- Tue Sep 18, 2018 10:56 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
Nick are you sure about Israel? For me and i guess many other ECF members attempts to expel israel, contrasted with title issues, crosses a redline worthy of ECF abstention in a second ballot. (For the avoidance of doubt i very much hope the Israeli voters change their government sometime very soon.)
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 11:12 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
Supporting a "slate" that becomes wickeder and wickeder is a bad thing! Does anyone agree? Yes, very much Mick, since Ian won't tell me, perhaps you will. What are you agreeing with? Which campaign do you believe is getting wickeder and wickeder? Both, perhaps? I'm asking because I don't know. Nick...
- Mon Sep 17, 2018 8:40 am
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
I was thinking of a scenario in which nigel was eliminated in the first round.
Maybe the ECF should then try(!) to extract a "price" for voting for Malcolm's slate in a second round :such as a review of K=40 for juniors or even a more radical rating review (for juniors)??
Maybe the ECF should then try(!) to extract a "price" for voting for Malcolm's slate in a second round :such as a review of K=40 for juniors or even a more radical rating review (for juniors)??
- Sun Sep 16, 2018 3:06 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
Do they actually need to decide? Yes, they certainly do. Abstaining from the main event, either by actually doing so or by voting for Short in the second round, is one of three options. Nick,maybe I disagree. The ECF may have a reputational risk , with among others potential chess sponsors. Support...
- Sun Sep 09, 2018 12:31 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
Does anyone have , even a gossip informed view, about who is most likely to win, candidates and inner circles excepted?
I am going to a conference next week and would rather like to rant, in the social corridors, about Putin soft power!
I am going to a conference next week and would rather like to rant, in the social corridors, about Putin soft power!
- Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:13 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Almost NQEs
- Replies: 1
- Views: 943
Almost NQEs
Glenn Flear's , "definitive guide to the endgames that really matter" , Everyman 2007 defines a NQE, not quite an ending, as " one player has two pieces and the other has two pieces or less". It is a classic chess reference book and an enjoyable read/browse for sub- 180 players (with a powerful engi...
- Sun Jul 29, 2018 3:29 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: British Championship 2018
- Replies: 424
- Views: 24875
Re: British Championship
Martin Benjamin
Great news that Kevin has not lost so far!?
Great news that Kevin has not lost so far!?
- Wed Jul 18, 2018 12:12 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Rank and File letters and numbers preference.
- Replies: 6
- Views: 650
Re: Rank and File letters and numbers preference.
As someone who sometimes makes notation errors, I grew up with English Descriptive, I think correct lettering is a good thing.
- Sun Jul 15, 2018 2:47 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
- Replies: 582
- Views: 31422
Re: Which Candidate Should the ECF Support in the FIDE Presidential Election? (Take 2)
Kevin
i guess more checks and balances on, possible abuses, of ( Presidential) power as you suggest would be a good thing!
i guess more checks and balances on, possible abuses, of ( Presidential) power as you suggest would be a good thing!
- Sat Jul 14, 2018 12:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Who is our next Adams?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4604
Re: Who is our next Adams?
D'0h!
Sorry Gavin Hughes, I thought Nick started it!?
Sorry Gavin Hughes, I thought Nick started it!?
- Sat Jul 14, 2018 12:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Who is our next Adams?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 4604
Re: Who is our next Adams?
I more or less agree, but there are exceptions. It seems Lasker didn't even learn to play until he was 11 years old! ... Speelman and Nunn hit the top 100 at 23/4 and went on to spend time at the highest level. Nick At the risk of being , off your topic, great as Mickey and Jon Speelman are and hav...