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MSoszynski wrote:Berliner replied to criticism in Chess Mail 7/99.

That's just swell.

James Byrne wrote:

Sebastian Stone wrote:What would peoples replies be against 1...e6?

Myself, should I play 1. d4 (which doesn't happen) would feel compelled to play 2. e4.

2. c4 and they would usually reply d5.

Or 2...Nf6

What would peoples replies be against 1...e6?

Myself, should I play 1. d4 (which doesn't happen) would feel compelled to play 2. e4.

Happy Birthday Viktor!

Sabrina, as I said, I showed Carl the text of my last post prior to its publication and he did not prevent it from being put into the forum - so, if he was OK with it, then if you think that it should not have been allowed, you should perhaps aim any criticism at him. I also note that despite me ha...

Carl Hibbard wrote:

Sebastian Stone wrote:I imagine If I asked this question to a cross section of the members of Sidmouth chess club "Who?" would be the most likely response.

They you should educate them or point them in the direction of this site

Already done. Well, partially at least.

However, I think if you asked a cross section of chess players Do you think C.J. Andrew Farthing, Lawrence Cooper etc. are doing a good job you would get the answer yes. I imagine If I asked this question to a cross section of the members of Sidmouth chess club "Who?" would be the most likely respo...

Mike Truran wrote:Peter

What on earth are you talking about?

Increasing female participation in chess to bring about a better world for all of us.

Duh!

For all you anti positive discrimination people , just think of it as a capitalist attempt to broaden the congress's consumer base.

Alex Holowczak wrote: At the moment, you pay the Club Internal rate, which is something like 18p per halfresult.

If you had an internal competition, you could pay £6 for it, yes. You are correct in what you say, but twas ever thus and you still play in team competitions.

Wouldn't that involve another charge?

Where does Internal Club Competition fit into this and how much would your two tier membership fee charge to grade players who just play in their club championship? Well, I assume it's graded, and it's not a team event. So it'd count as a congress, I guess, since that's a generic term used to scoop...

Richard Cowan wrote:That is diametrically opposite from what I want from the ECF. If I just wanted that, I'd not join the ECF and just continue with my (free) Yorkshire grade

You want the ECF not to grade your games and harass you?

Irrespective of funding options, the reason it would be good for the ECF to have contact details for all chess players is because the ECF could let chess players know directly about things such as changes to game fee or funding rather than relying on it filtering down via a cascade of league and co...

I'm pretty mediocre in most tournaments I play in. However, I usually manage to win at least 1 game. At East Devon I celebrated my 10th congress with a record poor score of 1.5/5 with 3 draws and 2 defeats. Comically I accidentally sacced a knight for two pawns thinking I had won those two pawns for...

A member of my club warmed up for last weekends (East Devon) congress (he was in the open), by drawing against a 115 and a 126 rated player.

He then went on to score 2.5/5, including draws against 2 180+ rated players and one win against a 168 rated player.