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It is the Caplin Hastings All-Play-All this weekend. Play starts at 1pm each day, with 6 rounds on Saturday and 5 rounds on Sunday. It is a great initiative and you can support it just by watching the games. Simon Williams and Jovanka Houska will be doing a great commentary here https://www.twitch.t...

Wadih, As an organiser you really decide how many rounds you are going to have, so having a lot more extra rounds is not normally an option. If you have a lot of players, should you have one big qualifier or split it up into smaller qualifying groups? This is really a question about what the players...

Wadih, There are some interesting ideas here and you might well be able to apply this to tennis, but I think there are some significant problems when applying it to chess The most obvious problem is the impact of draws, but having a qualifier and championships is also hugely beneficial for online ev...

Is the coronavirus vaccine for Covid like?

A) The vaccine for Polio
B) The coronavirus vaccine for Flu

My guess would be B

There will need to be at least one more British Online Championships. The one definite sanction being imposed on those who have been found to be cheating is that they will be banned from the next British Online Championships. If there are no such Championships, there will be nothing from which to b...

Wadih, I attended a ECF Level Arbiters course alongside a participant with a similar profile to yourself. 1. The course is a couple of days 2. The cost is negligible 3. The idea is that this gives you a strong grounding and then you move up the levels through practical experience 4. I think you'll f...

Matt Turner was on it, and did extremely well. Not long afterwards, he played in the Hastings Premier.The commentator, Chris Ward, suggested to the audience that they try to make words out of the abcdefgh along the sides of a board, with an a borrowed from the next board to make 9. I don't recall t...

Things are obviously happening behind the scenes because there are less google search results about Maghsoodloo than there used to be

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:06 am

Did he enjoy it do you know? Viz often described Carol Vorderman as 'thinking man's crumpet', I wonder if she really was?

Absolutely tremendous experience, amazing repartee between contestants, presenters and audience

All in all, I think this was a very successful tournament, so a big thank you to everyone involved.

Fortunately my computer didn't know you couldn't take Queens off with Bishops that are pinned, so I think I've dodged the anti-cheating protocols.

https://www.chess.com/live/game/6132596403

John Upham wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:11 pm

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Sun Jan 03, 2021 1:07 pm

What on earth is happening to our country? Haven't the police got better things to do than this?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55503852

I assumed I would be learning something about pizza restaurants : sadly disappointed.

Moved to the pedants' thread?

If the cheats knew how I was doing it, they can modify behaviours to stop me detecting meaning I have to develop more methods... Andy, Yes I do get that, at least in a limited way, but not here. I wonder whether the platform is saying that Parham is playing online blitz as well as Carlsen, to which...

Breaking up three pairings and keeping all the colours the same we can have

Rabindra - Frostick

Conway - Wilmoth

Hill - Brusey

I'm not claiming that is better or worse, just an alternative.

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:30 pm

Matthew Turner wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 30, 2020 4:23 pm

Yes they do - all titled player accounts are verified.

So what rating do you think they are using?

Those making the decision to close Maghsoodloo's account would be aware of all the ratings (online and OTB) that the player holds.
Any thoughts on the games?