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Geoff Chandler wrote:BTW the Chess Scotland site has had a re-vamp which includes
a game moving PGN thingy thing.

http://code.google.com/p/pgn4web/wiki/User_Notes_phpBB

This is all pretty easy to do, tbh, best with either Javascript / Jquery. It's basically simple form validation; there will even be ready-made solutions, e.g. a simple Joomla site with some forms. This could all be done in about a day by a good coder... It might be worth looking at what has been do...

Most players will look for their grades on the Internet. It might be useful to include the expiry date of their membership with the grade. Perhaps players whose membership has recently lapsed should have their details displayed in red, as a reminder to rejoin. This could help address the problem of...

The chess café concept has been proved commercially unviable in modern times in London and Paris. It worked in days gone by because the world was so different. People could linger, they were not connected into a global communications network, and City centre retail costs were relatively lower. The...

Mick Norris wrote:I couldn't get your link to the Pairing Tree to work, but found this:
http://chess.ugrasport.com/wp-content/u ... 250711.pdf

I assume this is the final version?

This might to be a more stable link to current/future pairing
http://chess.ugrasport.com/?page_id=261

2 ) No one has the right to refuse to play another player against whom they have been correctly paired on the grounds of race, gender, age or impairment. This is pretty strange. While the sentiments are noble, why are "race, gender, age" referred to in a document about "Chess Players with Impairmen...

However I do like the looks of the following d4 openings (cause they look quite sharp): Grunfeld, King's Indian and Semi-Slav (Moscow & Meran varations). Time to study isn't really an issue because I have another 2 years of Uni left i.e. lots of free time, however, instead of learning all 3 I'd rat...

Paolo >True, but compare the percentage of pupils getting full scores on exams and the percentage of players getting a FIDE title...< Are you in possession of such information? I don't have statistics, just my (rather old now) personal experience and some notes from the newspapers. For instance, a ...

So I am going to pose another question. What deludes people into thinking they can play chess to the point where it is an obsession. Playing year in, year out and never improving. :D Wrong question. Unless you are trying for a GM title and make a professional living out of chess, who said you need ...

James Byrne wrote:In school we're taught that hard work + practice will get us good exam results, and that's true to a large extent.

True, but compare the percentage of pupils getting full scores on exams and the percentage of players getting a FIDE title...

I think mans ability is only limited by the limitations of his imagination and the effort needed to achieve a particular goal I'd love to believe that, unfortunately in my personal experience, looking at myself and at people around me, there is a "natural ceiling" to anyone's chess strength. The ac...

Paul McKeown wrote:

Richard Cowan wrote:GOD is real unless declared integer. FACT

GOD is real unless declared imaginary. FACT.

Both wrong, the Devil is in the details
GOD is real unless a (non zero) part of it/him/her is imaginary

I was determine to trade off, eek out my extra pawn and win the ending, but at one point he offered a draw, I said no, he then left me thinking at the board. He returned, saw I had not moved and offered another draw - this particularly irritated me and I could feel myself getting seriously p***ed o...

Link to here needs to be http://www.ecforum.org.uk/ as the login cookie is set for that one Very good to know! I bookmarked http://ecforum.org.uk and my browser kept asking me to login every time I get to the forum, I was wondering what was wrong with the "keep me logged in" option :o It drives me ...

Carl Hibbard wrote:Link to here needs to be http://www.ecforum.org.uk/ as the login cookie is set for that one

Very good to know!
I bookmarked http://ecforum.org.uk and my browser kept asking me to login every time I get to the forum, I was wondering what was wrong with the "keep me logged in" option