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Apparently Corbyn (leadership election victory expected, but not declared yet) will put the Labour Party on an election footing, [...] Corbyn will be putting the Party on an election footing so that his vocal opponents (so-called Blairites but not only) will be considered traitorous in battle. It's...

The word "clear" is becoming the most abused word of all in this chaos. Brexit means Brexit and nothing more needs to be said about that because its meaning is "clear"; and we must give effect to the decision because it was the "clear" mandate of the 51.9% who voted for it. If you don't like "clear...

Niall, First of all, I recommend Scid http://scid.sourceforge.net/ over the program you mention. They are similar, but Scid sans phrase is superior, in my opinion. Now, I will tell you a way to achieve what you want though it might not be the way you wanted to do it. Do your search, but then (in Sci...

Rook & bishop.

One incident I saw happen... It is the last round of a tournament. In a certain pairing neither player is in contention for a prize. The villain beats his opponent who is now dejected and in any case in a hurry to get home. The villain offers to hand in the results slips for him. He does so, but rep...

Back to the original thead, i believe that a lot of people I know who learnt chess online don't really care for titles unless it is grandmaster or at a push international master. If I was good enough for a title I wouldn't say no, but I shant be bothering sending my tenner off to the ECF for my clu...

Presumably on the basis of rewarding 'strength in depth' but a silly idea as it encourages 'cheating' by placing your better players on lower boards! Presumably there will be other rules about strength order. Anyway, board count will only apply when there is a tie that hasn't been resolved elsewise...

Roger de Coverly wrote:I wouldn't be confident that it's used internationally.

It is used internationally, referred to as the Berlin System.

Incidentally, I remember seeing at least one English competition being settled by reverse board count.

Is this good, bad or indifferent? Up, down or sideways?

David Gilbert wrote:Sutton Coldfield must be stopped from winning (almost) everything again!

I humbly beg to differ.
signed
Treasurer of Sutton Coldfield CC
http://www.suttonchess.org.uk/

Is there anything in the ECF Rules about this? because there a person i know who need some advice and i did not have the answer for him/her. He/She feel that a member of a association/league has victimised him personal and feel that he/she is being bullied/Prejudice and want some help? also has pro...

David Blower wrote:When should a junior start playing graded chess (i.e. going into the clubs teams to play league chess against other clubs.)

As soon as possible when they want to.

I wouldn't impose higher standards on juniors than on adult starters.

What exactly is the problem? How many teams have entered Division 1 this season? And you want to change that? Because? Look at the format of Division 2. It's so successful that the Chase Trophy was changed to the same grading limit (U550) with the result that, as intended, more teams entered the Ch...

Thanks for all the responses. The question of assuming grades to ungraded players is another thing as well. So I will basically ask are there any other aggregate grading leagues, and what assumed grades are given to ungraded players. Another thing as well as what? My Club - Sutton Coldfield - compe...

So the question is how do I go about doing this (please don't state that I put it forward as a proposal at an AGM, and then it gets voted upon.) What I mean is, do I need to do some sort of "election campaign" to make sure that people vote for my proposal. Something vital comes alongside that. You ...