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Thank-you David, this is helpful. Clearly something missed early on when the event was being set up.

The fact is that the colours were indeed properly balanced, and were determined by a drawing of lots and published in advanced. Had the rating file been manipulated to ‘correct’ the colours, or even just the colour output from the approved pairings programme, then there would properly have been ques...

So what is the problem here? Incorrect information on the FIDE rating website - https://ratings.fide.com/calculations.phtml?id_number=1729519&period=2023-09-01&rating=0 and https://ratings.fide.com/calculations.phtml?id_number=25630946&period=2023-09-01&rating=0 , for example. Interesting that alth...

The Northumbria Masters this year produced a large number of norms: perhaps we might first recognise that the arbiter team for this event again allowed players to gain title norms, not something that many events consistently achieve. FIDE were sent the PGNs, and so will have info about the colour ro...

Donchenko is going to return to the Masters, and at the closing do, Carlsen pointed out that even with his rather poor start, he did still make the podium. He was 2nd-3rd=

It does look like it will be another fantastic event. And in the Masters, with the exception of Aronian only I think, Carlsen will be the oldest player! "Great selection of young talents, only Aronian saving me from being the oldest player in the field" https://twitter.com/MagnusCarlsen/status/1595...

Wishing you a speedy and full recovery.
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Well I'm off to the Dutch coast.

It does look like it will be another fantastic event.
And in the Masters, with the exception of Aronian only I think, Carlsen will be the oldest player!

Well, it's a little more than 30-40 points, but I was initially considering a player who, a couple of months ago was ranked over 300th, and yet has won one of the top elite events without dropping a set to anybody. And of course, it is excellent that a couple of new young players seem to have appear...

So if I were to push Emma Raducanu’s tennis results through the FIDE fair play system, or similar, would it be determined that she must be cheating somehow, and would she then get banned from the activity?

"So, for an arbiter with a FIDE nationality of ENG, they must progress as follows: Pass the ECF Arbiters Exam, becoming an ECF Level 1 Arbiter Pass the FIDE Arbiters Exam Get the norms for an ECF Level 2 Arbiter, becoming a Level 2 Arbiter Get the norms for a FIDE Arbiter, becoming a FIDE Arbiter I...

He was always a great encourager of people; a good Arbiter and an astute judge of character.

Please note that the CAA minutes are available at http://www.chessarbitersassociation.co. ... nutes.html

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IM Jack Rudd wrote: ↑

Sat Oct 20, 2018 3:29 pm

How often do you see a tournament where a round 1 all-GM clash doesn't get onto the liveboards?

It's the case that for round two, there are quite a number of big names that sit beyond the live boards.