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I did see the ECF bit about ventilation, think about most club venues, and start to wonder! Also, do open-sided tents (gazebos?) count as outdoors? Goodness knows formally. They probably shouldn't as they'll block the UV off - I think that's one of the really big difference between outdoors & indoo...

Carl - I've emailed you privately. Just as I feel that [alleged] cheats shouldn't be named publicly unless there's concrete strong evidence, I don't think it's correct to identify publicly others whom one believes are abusing forums such as this - it's for the moderator[s] to decide whether any such...

I had assumed the moderators had a clear policy towards consistently offensive posters but they seem to be turning a blind eye in one case.

Event postponed - organisational complications as result of pandemic.

It appears that, following complaints [including to FIDE] that their legend "This player uses chess computer assistance" was defamatory, Lichess have amended the wording [in all cases, as far as I can see] to "This account violated the Lichess Terms of Service".

Central figures for younger folk are 0.0013% between ages 5 and 14 , 0.0043% between 15 and 24, 0.029% between ages 25 and 44. These figures, and those quoted by Angus, are centralised in the sense that there's 95% confidence of their being correct subject to a 10% error [approx] in either directio...

Also, as we know, the older you are the more at risk you are. Stats from Cambridge University and Public Health England currently (at 22 June 2020) give an infection fatality rate of 0.44% for those aged 45-64, 2.9% for those aged 65-74 and 17% for those aged 75+. Central figures for younger folk a...

With the event having just ended, I'd like to thank the organising team from Hull for all their hard work. Having organised one or two [smaller] events myself, I can testify to the considerable amount of time and effort involved. It has been really appreciated.

...started this evening. And what's that? John Nunn in the Minor ? Edit: Strange, it worked earlier. Anyway, I've changed the link to the team page. Good of John to play in the Minor - I'm sure there will be some opponents who will welcome a game against a well-known GM whom they who would likely n...

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:59 pm

Roger Lancaster wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 25, 2020 12:52 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 4:36 pm

No disrespect meant to anyone on the list, it was my slightly tactless way of saying that they can't add anyone who hasn't already played.

No, my turn to apologise, I'll remember not to use irony in future.

That's sarcasm, not irony.

Oh, okay, I won't use that either!

They don't have a great deal of choice: Must be terrible, having a shortage of decent players :) No disrespect meant to anyone on the list, it was my slightly tactless way of saying that they can't add anyone who hasn't already played. No, my turn to apologise, I'll remember not to use irony in fut...

LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 24, 2020 3:34 pm

They don't have a great deal of choice:

Must be terrible, having a shortage of decent players

Matt - Well, I'll leave others to compare the two sentences and decide for themselves.

Compare and contrast, in the piece to which Matt [no criticism implied] refers earlier: "I made the hesitant phone call to the first parent and explained that Chess.com had banned this student’s username, which means that the player was certainly cheating" and "It is not that they {Chess.com} are im...

Roger, I agree, but isn't that what makes it so interesting! One small point I would make is that I think there is a big difference between an IM detecting cheating by an 800 rated student to a human detecting cheating by an IM. I agree your point in that, in my estimation also, it takes a stronger...