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Only almost?

I wonder how the cost breakdown works for the sets. I have a feeling that the machine tools are relatively expensive, but once produced the unit cost per set may be fairly low. Has anybody considered whether optional additional sets could be offered at a small profit to provide Holloid with a Revenu...

That will be a king then! (sorry....).

Seriously though it is nice to see any new arbiter with the playing experience and ability that Jack has.

A few test tournaments/matches could be run with just Armageddon games to test the different time limits with time added to find the best combinations of time in order to give equal average results to black and white.

I doubt white could claim that black declined a draw and was going for a win as my understanding of the rules of the play off were that a draw for black was counted as a win. I think clearly she just did not see the draw in the time scramble. I am not sure if it would be relevant anyway - either the...

I once lost a dead drawn blitz game (basically K+R v K+R) as there was no two minute claim available - I believe that the rules in this area need revising - I repeatedly offered my opponent a draw after every move just to show my opinion of the fact he was playing on. The controller of the tournamen...

My understanding is that a juniors grade is intended to represent their average playing strength for the next season (as I believe any yearly increase is added after the grading calculations are done). Thus the grade for longplay would be an estimate of their grade in 6 months time, (assuming a line...

In some ways I think it is good to have tournaments spread accross the different age groups (including adults) in the same place at the same time as it allows natural progression. If the John Robinson Grand Prix continues it will be interesting to see how it impacts on the tournament entries (it was...