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- Fri Apr 02, 2021 1:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: (Chess) Life Returning To Normal
- Replies: 2787
- Views: 242672
Re: (Chess) Life Returning To Normal
If he's resolved his differences with the local Malta federation, perhaps the Sniper will pop up with something. We've not heard from the Sniper since the end of January. I believe he was building extra wings on Troll Prison to welcome new inmates. It was getting a bit crowded. I suspect that you c...
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 4:50 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Laws of Chess - changes
- Replies: 58
- Views: 7294
Re: Laws of Chess - changes
NB: King and bishop are not able to give checkmate when an opponent has king and rook. (in contrast to king and knight.) The amusing one is king and bishop versus king and bishop. If they're same-coloured bishops, over-stepping the time control results in a draw. If they're opposite-coloured bishop...
- Thu Apr 01, 2021 3:08 am
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: March 29
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: March 29
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p099w68l, starting just after 2.37
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 3:15 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: £10,000 Scottish Junior Tournament
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3123
Re: £10,000 Scottish Junior Tournament
then presumably it would be open to an aggrieved party, if deprived of a prize to which he or she felt rightfully entitled, to sue for breach of contract. In England the Small Claims Court route might be used. It's happened. The organisers of a tournament accepted the entry of a previously graded p...
- Wed Mar 31, 2021 1:42 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: £10,000 Scottish Junior Tournament
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3123
Re: £10,000 Scottish Junior Tournament
It's an eye-catching event and, naturally, I wish them well. But it does seem to me that the organisers might be on uncertain ground if, in the event they decide to withhold prizes - and the largest is a not insignificant £1,500 - on the grounds of alleged computer assistance, sandbagging or whateve...
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 4:49 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: March 29
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: March 29
Follow-up interview [BBC Radio Three Counties] with one of yesterday's juniors tomorrow at 2.30 to discuss yesterday's event and, more generally, chess during lockdown.
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 3034
- Views: 344381
Re: Cheating in chess
"Know the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject" - FIDE Arbiter's Manual - see above. I suppose it...
- Tue Mar 30, 2021 12:13 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: March 29
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: March 29
David, there should be a rule against players shedding bucketloads of tears when they lose games!
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 8:49 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: March 29
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: March 29
Roger Well done! I assume this is the first outdoor event submitted for rating. Are there any examples of outdoor events having been submitted for grading in recent years? No idea. Given good weather and a reasonably benign playing environment, rapidplay games in particular shouldn't be difficult t...
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 7:37 pm
- Forum: Junior Chess
- Topic: March 29
- Replies: 15
- Views: 2376
Re: March 29
With English weather, good luck is a 'must' so I'm pleased to be able to report that today's event was successful and I've just uploaded the results of the rated games onto the ECF rating database. [In passing, I can highly recommend the League Management System].
- Mon Mar 29, 2021 12:08 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Cheating in chess
- Replies: 3034
- Views: 344381
Re: Cheating in chess
FIDE Fair Play Commission upon reviewing all the data submitted by FPP will decide, whether the case shall be referred to the Ethics and Disciplinary Commission for further sanctions. I'm suggested that whether or not FIDE refers it, the player should do so. The damage is done, so she should act im...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 1:04 pm
- Forum: 4NCL
- Topic: Proposed reorganisation
- Replies: 50
- Views: 11790
Re: Proposed reorganisation
Following information provisional and subject to satisfactory Covid situation etc. Dates & Venues 2021-22 Weekend 1 | Rounds 1-2 20-21 November 2021 Division 3 South Kents Hill Park, Milton Keynes Division 3 Central Woodland Grange, Leamington Spa Division 3 North Holiday Inn, Doncaster 27-28 Novemb...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:21 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Under Statement?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5341
Re: Under Statement?
Before signing off, I'll just answer Justin's selective quotes from the Guardian by pointing out that I said, much earlier in this thread, that "whether inclusion of the word 'brother-in-law' would have been better journalistic practice is another matter - personally, I am inclined to agree that it ...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Under Statement?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5341
Re: Under Statement?
Here, you're just an obsessive barking up the wrong tree. Finally, if you don't mind my saying so, I'm not sure that branding others' comments as "absolute nonsense" contributes to constructive exchanges. Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Roger Lancaster. Thanks, I've made my point and I've now bett...
- Sun Mar 28, 2021 12:04 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Under Statement?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 5341
Re: Under Statement?
Justin - you referred to a "glaring conflict of interest" when there simply isn't one - and your attempts to obscure that fact by badmouthing others just won't wash. On the separate issue of Ray's plagiarism, I'd agree with you. Here, you're just an obsessive barking up the wrong tree.