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- Thu Sep 11, 2014 9:49 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Scotland and the referendum on independence
- Replies: 80
- Views: 11912
Re: Scotland and the referendum on independence
Maybe a somewhat false dichotomy here!? My point (and the "Scotsman's" view) is that the heart and mind (or 'brains') can be, and usually are, united. Mine have certainly always been so on the matter of the referendum; and I'm fairly certain that the silent majority in Scotland (and the wider UK for...
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 4:55 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Scotland and the referendum on independence
- Replies: 80
- Views: 11912
Re: Scotland and the referendum on independence
Wasn't even aware of this thread and haven't read through it in detail. No, I have never remotely been 'undecided'. Nor do I think that anyone at least in Scotland (and possibly extending into NE England - Newcastle is much nearer Edinburgh and Glasgow than far-off London) has been unaware of virtua...
- Thu Sep 11, 2014 11:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 4150
- Views: 449008
Re: Media comments on chess
To balance matters, given one Anglo-Scot chess player's glowing take on the 'Yes' side in the forthcoming Scottish Independence referendum (quoted a few posts above), here's one from another lifelong chess playing Anglo-Scot, an old Glasgow school-mate and fellow Glasgow University graduate. From to...
- Mon Apr 14, 2014 11:01 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Emulating player's styles
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3132
Re: Emulating player's styles
In a perhaps slightly sideways bid to bring back poor old 1946 British Champion R F Combe centre stage, and return to the original issue about the value of (trying to) emulate great players' playing styles, I think he'd firstly say, "Yes, essential for any step change in self-improvement." He'd stre...
- Sun Apr 13, 2014 12:17 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Emulating player's styles
- Replies: 28
- Views: 3132
Re: Emulating player's styles
Keen to hear about Houdini's take on "style". That style has some real meaning in chess is clear, at least in my view, but it's hard to define, pin down to any actual chess-player and is chimeric. In the introduction to my recent Everyman Chess book "Chess Secrets: Great Chess Romantics", I quote th...
- Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:43 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: 2014 EUROPEAN SENIORS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8743
Re: 2014 EUROPEAN SENIORS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
I have been in touch with the ECU and the regs for the Euro senior individual champs incorporating new "Senior 50+" and "Senior 65+" groups for men in the "Open" sections (previously males, but not women had to be "over-60" to be "seniors"; women seniors were "over-50s") have now indeed just appeare...
- Sat Dec 07, 2013 5:05 pm
- Forum: Seniors Chess
- Topic: 2014 EUROPEAN SENIORS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8743
Re: 2014 EUROPEAN SENIORS CHESS CHAMPIONSHIP
Ken, I don't want to be too cautious (and I know that these regulations, drafted by the tournament organiser, "exist" ... and have been part of recent process that has helped sort out the application of the new "Senior 50+" age applicability for the event). BUT these regs have still not yet been bac...
- Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:16 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: 4NCL RAPIDPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Replies: 36
- Views: 7217
Re: 4NCL RAPIDPLAY CHAMPIONSHIPS
I note the reference above to sundry international players, including passing Scots, in next weekend's 4ncl rapidplays. Sadly, as a Scot, however, I can indeed confirm that I'll be charged the £6 fee for "non-ECF members" for the privilege of crossing the border to take part. Actually I'm informed ...
- Tue Mar 13, 2012 10:26 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Karl Gilg as a POW in East Lothian
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1826
Karl Gilg as a POW in East Lothian
http://www.chessscotland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=260#p2094 I just posted the above at the ChessScotland Forum. And since I spent some time looking into this, I might as well open my request for any further information on Gilg's time in Scotland more widely. As you will see, the BCM website rec...
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:06 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Independence Day
- Replies: 20
- Views: 3239
Re: Independence Day
Hm! I see that Matthew, at least according to FIDE's transfer data, retains some non-existent thing called English (ENG) "citizenship". Maybe FIDE has already decided that the eventual Scottish Independence referendum can only go one way!? Scary, or maybe just one further example of FIDE's occasiona...
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:20 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Who would have won had Anatoly Karpov played Bobby Fischer?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8946
Re: Who would have won had Anatoly Karpov played Bobby Fisch
Re: Brendan Brown's post The Morphy marriage rebuff story has, I believe, little or no solid substance behind it - best we have on that is David Lawson's book on Morphy (now reprinted / edited by T Aiello 2010), which could establish no basis for it ... and he spent half of his life on the research....
- Sun Oct 09, 2011 10:00 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Who would have won had Anatoly Karpov played Bobby Fischer?
- Replies: 60
- Views: 8946
Re: Who would have won had Anatoly Karpov played Bobby Fisch
In contrast to John Clarke, I'd suggest that it's at least as "dangerous" to speculate on the putative outcome of a Fischer-Karpov match that (to some extent with hindsight) it's evident was never going to come about (for a vast range of chess and especially non-chess reasons)! But I'd definitely do...
- Tue Oct 04, 2011 8:55 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: How weak can a player get?
- Replies: 38
- Views: 4436
Re: How weak can a player get?
This is a fascinating thread ... it's surprising that so many people seem to think that the rating system is all that reliable an indicator of "strength". It's particularly skewed by "historical" performance. Say you start a given rating period on 2300 and you have a series of results in (FIDE) rate...
- Fri Sep 30, 2011 10:22 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Appeal for Board Support
- Replies: 185
- Views: 28617
Re: Appeal for Board Support
Hasn't the ECF got a formal Ethics Code in place, including defined standards and procedures to deal with complaints operated by respected parties acting independently from the board? If not, perhaps such a step might be considered for the future, as it might have offered advantages all round to hel...
- Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:18 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Appeal for Board Support
- Replies: 185
- Views: 28617
Re: Appeal for Board Support
When I posted at around 11am this morning (on page 3 of this thread), I did not anticipate that it would lead to a significant flurry of postings stretching to page 7 tonight. But much more importantly I would like to stress that my post should not be construed in any way as an attack on the ECF pre...