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Peter D Williams wrote:Afternoon friends



Well i do hope your all keeping dry this afternoon

Doubtless ISIS children will present a real challenge for the West.

Putin today is an ally against ISIL. I guess a significant part of ISIS today were children in Chechnya a few years ago.

Perhaps some of those who I heard exclaim "I'm sure I turned it off before I put it in my bag/coat" spoke the truth and were innocent victims of GCHQ smurfing!? The trouble with "smurfing" is that it cannot be credibly blamed on the NSA ? I sincerely hope the creator of the term has been redacted i...

"I don't think that one's politically correct nowadays." Not many people know that : Men's Prone Rifle Shooting is an Olympic sport but Women's is not. Maybe FIDE should aim to get Women's chess recognised as an Olympic sport first alongside the injustice done to Women's prone rifle centring the cam...

"To my mind a suitable Chairman would be Jo Frost aka Supernanny. Certain members of the Board are childish and bullying in their behaviour and need a parent to keep them in order." Well, yes. I think it has gone beyond that, I propose Jack Bauer. Given the length of the meetings, "Bart Simpsons Gu...

Mick Norris wrote It isn't just the money, it is the time too - big effort for the likes of Ben Edgell & Jack Rudd to get to Council Meetings in Birmingham & London, ditto anyone north of Manchester/Leeds say Not to mention the fact that there are other ways of spending a Saturday afternoon. If I d...

Yesterday I emailed the Silver Membership representative with my preferred choices for the election to be told I was the only person who had so far done so. . I keep coming back to this point, that anybody who wants to influence votes at Council can do so relatively easily. For many of us, it is sp...

Electoral fraud seems to crop up wherever it is possible Sadly I agree but of course it can be minimised at a cost. I suggest the real ECF problems are about power (its use and abuse and ECF nexus) not law ...no taxation without representation seems an appropriately civilised clarion call to me...O...

Kevin, I agree too.

Maybe FIDE has a cunning plan to replace the global Under 8's with Under 7's and Under 9's? More chess events I guess and titles to be won?.. but then why not keep the Under8's also!

Seriously, I think seven hour meetings are a bad thing. To chair a seven hour ECF meeting well, perhaps the qualities , of both C3P0 and R2D2 from Star- Wars are needed. Few carbon based life forms are up to the task , even with a few hours switched off time, and ...some of them are doubtless focuse...

Christopher Kreuzer wrote Does anyone know what time the AGM might finish on 17 October? I know it starts at 1.30pm The scheduled finishing time is 6.00 p.m. A procedural motion can be (and generally is) passed at 5.30 p.m. to extend a Council Meeting for a maximum of 30 minutes. A 6.30 p.m. finish...

Nick Faulks wrote" By the way, the calculation of rating performance once again reared its head in Abu Dhabi. I think my own Commission has been given the task of producing a universal definition, but we shall not do so because it cannot be done." Nick , I am shocked at your inability to do the impo...

The British Championship Congress could move into competition with the European Opens by promoting itself as a destination for non-British chess tourists. Great idea Roger, maybe also, given the welcome introduction of the U180 tournament and the strength of the Major Open in the past, more spaces ...

Leonard Barden wrote:at a time when Tony Banks was the sports minister and campaigning on behalf of chess.

Do you think a National Chess day in 2016 is a good idea?

Jack

Do you think a National Chess Day in 2016, would be in the interests of the ECF as a whole?

am I the only one to find McKay really annoying? I was not surprised to learn he writes for the Daily Telegraph and the Mail on Sunday. Certainly his single reference to the late, great W.T.Tutte FRS in his book on "The Secret Life Of Bletchley Park" seems to me inappropriate but I guess mathematic...