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For two reasons - fill up the h-file and Worst Move on the Board.

More likely lack of awareness. Nothing on the ECF website and until Leonard's post yesterday I had no idea of the dates. Watching now though.

John Upham wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 05, 2019 9:59 am

Anne at a Lloyds Bank event (?)

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Next to Nicole Tagnon who I think played at Lloyds Bank in the late 1970s

Havas is French and is one of the biggest PR and advertising agencies in the world.

Roger, in the earliest versions of the Clarke system, players could LOSE gradng points even though they won the game. Hence the 40 point cutoff, again which like junior additions was a 1960s development. No, that was a later development, mid-seventies I'd say. It was 50 points when I started playin...

Nick Grey wrote: ↑

Thu Feb 07, 2019 12:13 am

Thanks I expect the budget is the budget with help elsewhere. And you get there as quickly as possible. The future European budget ought to have Brexit considerations.

Quite a call to expect the ECF to budget for Brexit when the rest of the country hasn't got a clue.

Times Jumbo yesterday, 36 ac; “Game: Nazis against Communist (5)

Hi Andrew I'll look forward to some additional stanzas in 2028. I saw Bob after my YMCA days as he used to captain Kent, at least for a little while. He was very odd. He changed his name to Lee-Anderson as Roger notes, about the same time as he married (I think) someone who had neither of those name...

Thanks Andrew. Brings back a few memories, and I like the additions... So many years ago but still seems like yesterday!

Nick Grant, Chairman of Duncan Lawrie when they supported the English chess teams, has died. I have good memories of him from my days as BCF International Director. Obituary from the Times below. "Nicholas Grant’s friendship with Ted Hughes made him the money man of choice for authors and artists, e...

True. If he bet that Black's king would be on c3 by move 26 he'd have cleaned up as well.

Best guideline on all this - if it feels dodgy, it probably is.

Not to bribe people. In my world it's to thank and recognise loyal support and to recognise the value of the business given by the customer by giving something back. It is also, patently, to win friends and influence people as Jonathan says, and there are reasons why there are rules in the civil se...

Not to bribe people. In my world it's to thank and recognise loyal support and to recognise the value of the business given by the customer by giving something back.

UK law is pretty strict about bribery, though I doubt the standards are quite so rigorously applied in Batumi.

As I write we have 59 pages on the chess and 39 pages on the politics. I don't draw any conclusions from that....