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I expect a surge in populism, sorry popularity of the "go whistle" opening sequence requiring White to start the game with 1. f3 (thus damaging their own position) then leaving the chessboard, going whistling for a while, hoping for something suddenly to happen in their favor but achieving nothing e...

In good form, Karjakin is very well suited for this kind of event. He’s definitely my favourite, remaining undefeated and scoring points against out of form opponents. Unless an early loss in the first rounds forces him out of his comfort zone.

Why is it that so many tournament pgn files are full of garbage? I enclose an example (one of many) of the junk that pads out the pgn files of many respectable tournaments. [Event "Hastings Masters"] [Site "Horntye, Hastings"] [Date "2018.01.02"] [Round "6.2"] [White "Gormally, Daniel W"] [Black "F...

Make sense, thanks.

Hello, a separate thread has a message with a link to the FIDE payment web page: https://payment.fide.com/payment.phtml In the list of fees for payment, the first option is a "Player license over-the-board 1yr 60.00 EUR". No mention of this in the explanatory link on the payment site http://www.fide...

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Mon Jan 08, 2018 3:30 pm

Appeals Committees can decide on all sorts of disputes (e.g. matters of fact) not just on whether an Arbiter's decision is correct or not.

Could you make an example of an appeal where no arbiter would not have been consulted earlier?

Additionally, from a sporting point of view, Mr Pein felt mistakes by arbiters should be part of the game as they are in other sports and should not be corrected at the end of the game. I think Malcolm is wrong here - or, at least, trying to implement a fundamental change in the game. It is current...

I’ve seen two reports on twitter from established journalists - Peter Doggers & Leonard Ootes - asking why Agon are charging money to watch the video feed of the Grand Prix via their website whilst giving the same video away for free via Facebook. I guess they are the kind of people that keep askin...

This does not represent the future at all, if anything it represents the past. My point is that is this is what the big money wishes to sponsor nowadays, it may be the future too. I would not read too much into a one-off event. Especially from the Saint Louis chess club where sometimes they seem to...

The players are getting paid very well for this circus, but does it really have to represent the future of top level chess? This does not represent the future at all, if anything it represents the past: in the last century, before the widespread introduction of the DGT clocks, everyone played blitz...

Karpov's loss to an obscure untitled German in a 1983 (all play all) tournament has to be up there. Think it has been mentioned on here (and the game posted) before....... This one maybe: [Event "FRG-ch International"] [Site "Hannover FRG"] [Date "1983.08"] [EventDate "?"] [Round "1"] [Result "0-1"...

Everything should be back to normal with posting games and positions. As a reminder, in order to post a game you should use the pgn tag with the full game score. For example: [pgn] [Event "London league"] [Site "London ENG"] [Date "2017.10.23"] [Round "?"] [White "Casaschi, Paolo"] [Black "My oppone...

(You really do not want to run membership schemes where fees are proportional to activity. The admin overload of doing that is ridiculous.) Please explain why. You collect from a few hundred organisations instead of several thousand or tens of thousand individuals. Is it not the case that the ECF O...

Council said no. In my memory, the option was never put to them. "Membership" was always equated to a "one man, one sub" system. Let's put it another way: they rejected options in which Game Fee was the primary method of funding. (You really do not want to run membership schemes where fees are prop...

The situation is that, for example, the latest FIDE rating list (if I did the pivot table right) has 2923 players for ENG, 19439 for FRA and 22897 for GER. You certainly can try to find issues and excuses for that That is an extremely simple one to answer - the ECF has taxed FIDE rated chess almost...