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Pronunciation is a different tea-pot of fish, as a German ex-colleague of mine once said, but surely both “d”s in Wednesday are pronounced?! (Note how I avoided the use of an apostrophe to denote a plural). Mismatch of plural nouns with singular verbs (and vice versa) provides fertile ground. MPs (s...

Now, what about interviewees starting answers with 'So....' This is quite a recent phenomena... :evil: There must be literally millions of other examples. One development I've noticed is for a supposedly business email to start with the overly-friendly "Good morning Alistair" (or equivalent) which ...

We still toss for colours. I used to train for football on a monday night before chess at the club. 6 seasons with no change of shin pads. I'm tempted to ask if you also wore the shin-pads to the football... I can’t think of many superstitions in chess. A few people like a particular set, or a part...

For example, I’m not sure what Mr Thomson is saying (with regard to engine matching). PGNSpy analysis is described here - https://github.com/MGleason1/PGN-Spy . With only two "Undecided Positions" (defined as positions where the player's advantage is less than 2 pawns by default) in 3 games, and no...

if you define an inaccuracy as a move which is more than one 'pawn' worse than the best move (or whatever the definition is) An estimation Interesting. Am I to infer that if I were to drop a Q whilst playing K+Q+R v K then this would not even be classified as an inaccuracy as I would still be winni...

It seems we have several questions here (the answers to which may be unclear despite the attempt of some of the finest minds on the planet to resolve) including: 1. What constitutes cheating? 2. How can cheating be detected? 3. How can such cheating be “proved”? 4. To what extent should the guilty b...

John can you help? I need to find what I posted in the thread: Garry Kasparov vs Stuart C Conquest (1983) (Stuart won - good game, uncharacteristic tactical blunder by Kasparov.) Sleepless quest No.623 is me looking for the Neil Dickinson position. (read on) It would have been something like; BCM M...

Have any of these platforms tested their anti-cheating measures with in-house tournaments when certain "competitors" are given licence to cheat in one of a variety of ways, to see if they can be detected?

I think they were asked 'On a scale of 1-10 how sure are you that he is guilty'. After analysis, the mean was calculated at 6.66. I assume this was a linear scale :evil: I think it demonstrates the power of phrasing essentially the same question in different ways (as evidenced in much referendum di...

(Reuben voted Guilty, but told me he would have preferred the Scots option of Not Proven.) Isn't this faintly troubling? Either you find the case against the accused proven (beyond reasonable doubt), in which case you find them guilty, or you don't - in which case the verdict should be "not proven"...

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Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:33 pm

Alex?

Sorry, I thought I'd read somewhere that Alex M was involved but on reflection this may have been in a more remote capacity.

I have been reliably informed that he is safe and well.

I hope Alex and Andy can get home safely. (And everyone else, obvs)

Anyone know what happened on board 45, Zheng - Patrick ? Black's position is a bit nasty but that is to be expected after 4...Lc5 I suppose. Something went wrong with the transmission. White won, but in considerably more than 8 moves. That's not what happened. Patrick's mobile went off [snip]. Alex...

There is an Andrew Muir standing as an Independent in West Dunbartonshire. I assume that is the Scottish IM, and that he will be making better treatment of those with mental health issues a major plank of his platform. Andy previously stood in a similar constituency at the Holyrood election of 2016 ...

"If Andrew Smith doesn't do a Bobby Fischer, I will eat my hat" In a nice sense I hope! I'm not that optimistic of 100 %, but he is a dangerous opponent, full of good ideas. For your amusement I attach [Event "Lewisham Quickplay"] [Site "?"] [Date "1999.??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Smith, Andrew P"]...