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- Fri Nov 10, 2017 11:33 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: 2017 Champions Showdown in St Louis
- Replies: 9
- Views: 844
Re: 2107 Champions Showdown in St Louis
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...
- Sat Nov 04, 2017 11:08 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Favourite Rating Upsets Ever: Wins or Draws.
- Replies: 15
- Views: 1728
Re: Favourite Rating Upsets Ever: Wins or Draws.
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"...
- Thu Nov 02, 2017 11:27 am
- Forum: News and Support
- Topic: PGN and POS
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2986
Re: PGN and POS
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...
- Sat May 27, 2017 10:56 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
(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...
- Sat May 27, 2017 10:46 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
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...
- Fri May 26, 2017 8:15 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
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...
- Fri May 26, 2017 3:40 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
If it's anything like Spain then comparisons with England are pretty difficult simply because the whole way chess is organised is very different. Yes, in those countries chess is simply better organized and attracts a wider audience, including younger people. But isn't the chess federation role to ...
- Fri May 26, 2017 3:39 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
English chess players don't want to pay much to the federation, and to some extent get the federation they pay for; government support has been withdrawn, and local authorities don't support chess any more (I've been to chess events in Town Halls in Rochdale, Bolton, Bury & Manchester, but they now...
- Fri May 26, 2017 3:01 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
And I'm confident their member forum is better as well ;-) with fewer grumpy complainers. Really? My impression is that the French federation's infighting makes our debates here look quite mild. The comment about the forum is obviously a joke. Instead, the difference in strength between the ECF and...
- Fri May 26, 2017 2:56 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
So if I get Paolo correctly he is saying that a good federation has more players with FIDE grades, more members and more money. Boils down to saying that Barclays is a better bank than the Cumberland Building Society because it is bigger. I'm still glad I've moved from the former to the latter, how...
- Fri May 26, 2017 12:52 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
Well Paolo's told us one way of interpreting the question. No clue as to the answer, however! The clue is in the comparison... just match the ECF against the German and French federations in terms of financials, number of members, number of FIDE rated members and so on... you can't help wondering w...
- Fri May 26, 2017 12:20 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
Well Paolo's told us one way of interpreting the question. No clue as to the answer, however! The clue is in the comparison... just match the ECF against the German and French federations in terms of financials, number of members, number of FIDE rated members and so on... you can't help wondering w...
- Fri May 26, 2017 11:13 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
- Replies: 195
- Views: 13519
Re: Poll: Is the ECF doing a good job?
When you say ECF, do you mean Council, the board, the federation as a whole or another definition? and compared to what? For example, compared to other European countries like Germany and France: similar population, similar economy, but very different financials for the national federation and very...
- Fri Feb 03, 2017 1:34 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
- Replies: 382
- Views: 26444
Re: Tradewise Gibraltar Masters 2017
Again, it doesn't matter what people say just look at the pairings; it doesn't surprise me a Russian thinks its a conspiracy, even Yifan has apologised in an official statement While showing her unhappiness with the pairing against women, I have not seen any explanation from Hou Yifan why it is so ...
- Mon Jan 30, 2017 9:30 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: I wanna become a GM
- Replies: 76
- Views: 12785
Re: I wanna become a GM
Not a guarantee, but wasting less time on internet forums and similar could be a good start.soheil_hooshdaran wrote:What should I do to become a GM?
Instead working on chess and practicing might be your best chance to improve.