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Can anyone shed any light on Brian ? I suspect that Brian Gillman may have been the teenager, a leading member of the county junior team, whom I played in the Middlesex junior championships in 1961 or 1962. I had no more recent contact but, if Brian Gillman was about 73 when he died, he's probably ...

IQ isn't a figure, it's a percentile in the population spread. On that basis, you might perhaps estimate Carlsen or Kasparov as being in the top 0.1%. Possibly. Maybe. Actual IQ "scores" are meaningless since they depend entirely on the actual test. For instance, in the two main tests for Mensa – t...

I wouldn't disagree as to the effectiveness of different media, Eric, and I gave up on my local paper once I found a better way to wrap my fish and chips, but others may find their local rag useful. For those people, I suspect the issue I raised may still apply. Local newspapers are a great source ...

It is blindingly obvious to me that he should have been stripped of all titles and ratings, and started again as a new player. This idea was rejected by ACC on the astonishing ground that it might somehow benefit the player! Nick, any insight as to the manner in which the ACC felt it might benefit ...

I wouldn't disagree as to the effectiveness of different media, Eric, and I gave up on my local paper once I found a better way to wrap my fish and chips, but others may find their local rag useful. For those people, I suspect the issue I raised may still apply.

Great name Good luck One issue with these clever invented names is they tend to kill off opposing teams' chances of getting any local publicity for their feats. A local paper may be amenable to reporting the results of a match against (say) Manchester or Cambridge University which are identifiable ...

I then was told my opponent, Mr Storey, had asked them to follow me. Clearly, based on what's been said here, the arbiters had no option but to award the game to Charlie Storey. What seems curious to me, although it's been unremarked upon here, is why - assuming Lorin is correct in what he says abo...

Sorry to introduce chess into this, and it's a bit off-topic, but... I organized car hire today for my trip to Guernsey in October and discovered a bit of small print that says in the event of a no-deal Brexit, UK drivers will have to produce an international driving permit as well as their licence...

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Thu Jul 25, 2019 10:08 am

Mohammed Amin has been in the news recently. See here (and also here and here). There's no mention of chess but Mohammed is an ECF member and has represented Manchester Chess Federation at ECF meetings.

LOL, questioning Boris's moral fitness, whatever next?

That's bo**ocks though, annuities ceased to be compulsory in 1996 :roll: Sorry, memory faulty, although it doesn't alter my point that previous pensions regimes had drawbacks too. Situation immediately prior to Osborne reforms was that annuities could be avoided through income drawdowns which, agai...

Unfortunately, for future tax payers, Roger L's "personal experience" that "the changes were entirely beneficial" may not stand the test of time. True but who can predict the future? It's all rather detached from chess, so I'll be brief, but one longstanding criticism of the pre-Osborne situation w...

Well they seem to have been running an investigation for a while into the (predictable) consequences of the 2015 pension changes, and they reached the point where rhey were ready to publish. There's in fact several different case studies in the investigation, Williams/Quillan being just one of them...