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- Tue Sep 08, 2020 6:30 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Pedants United
- Replies: 285
- Views: 13398
Re: Pedants United
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...
- Thu Sep 03, 2020 11:54 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Pedants United
- Replies: 285
- Views: 13398
Re: Pedants United
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 ...
- Fri Aug 28, 2020 5:57 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Superstitions in chess
- Replies: 34
- Views: 2443
Re: Superstitions in chess
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...
- Wed Jul 22, 2020 2:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheater or not - what do you think?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2448
Re: Cheater or not - what do you think?
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...
- Tue Jul 21, 2020 3:28 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheater or not - what do you think?
- Replies: 25
- Views: 2448
Re: Cheater or not - what do you think?
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...
- Sun Jul 19, 2020 4:03 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 2171
- Views: 184058
Re: Cheating in chess
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...
- Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:39 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: www.chessgames.com
- Replies: 39
- Views: 3868
Re: www.chessgames.com
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...
- Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 2171
- Views: 184058
Re: Cheating in chess
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?
- Fri Apr 24, 2020 7:14 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud
- Replies: 158
- Views: 23187
Re: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud
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...
- Wed Apr 22, 2020 12:54 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud
- Replies: 158
- Views: 23187
Re: Plaskett and Woffinden's book on the "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" Fraud
(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"...
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Candidates Tournament 2020
- Replies: 379
- Views: 29488
Re: Candidates Tournament 2020
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.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:11 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Candidates Tournament 2020
- Replies: 379
- Views: 29488
Re: Candidates Tournament 2020
I hope Alex and Andy can get home safely. (And everyone else, obvs)
- Sun Jan 05, 2020 11:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Hastings Congress
- Replies: 161
- Views: 15357
Re: Hastings Congress
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...
- Mon Nov 25, 2019 10:46 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: General Election 2019
- Replies: 48
- Views: 5607
Re: General Election 2019
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 ...
- Tue Jul 30, 2019 4:51 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: British Championship Congress 2019
- Replies: 553
- Views: 53374
Re: British Championship Congress 2019
"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"]...