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by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Oct 10, 2018 1:12 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Ecf Silver member letter
Replies: 72
Views: 10268

Re: Ecf Silver member letter

I am not entirely sure why there isn't much discussion on the rather ambitious membership fee increases, of ~25% over two years from 2018-2020. Are members, clubs, and leagues, actually aware of the scope of the membership fee proposals, and perhaps not all of them are entirely sensible, and therefo...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Oct 10, 2018 12:47 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: ECF increased membership costs
Replies: 94
Views: 11859

Re: ECF increased membership costs

This thread started by Roger is actually worth a lot of attention, for a number of reasons. Intentionally ambiguous or not, the ECF appears to have published a breakdown of costs that don't appear to add up properly in their requests for more funding, and seem to lack sufficient clarity that it woul...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:27 am
Forum: Junior Chess
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 3
Views: 1618

Re: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)

Just under a week to go! This Sunday will be the Coventry Club Junior Rapidplay, open to players from all clubs to none! Please get in touch if you have any queries :)
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 19, 2018 11:27 am
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 2
Views: 1100

Re: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)

Just under a week to go! This sunday will be the Coventry Club Junior Rapidplay, open to players from all clubs to none! Please get in touch if you have any queries!!
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:41 pm
Forum: Junior Chess
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 3
Views: 1618

Re: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)

Feel free to either email Ed Goodwin or message myself, for any queries about the event! Some of you may know Ed, as the Chief Organiser of the 28th Leamington Rapidplay 2017, and myself, as an ECF Arbiter in the Midlands area (and Vice-Chair of the Coventry and District League). The idea of this ev...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 12, 2018 5:20 pm
Forum: Junior Chess
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 3
Views: 1618

Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)

Coventry Chess Club are holding their very First One-Day ECF graded Junior Rapidplay Event, on Sunday 23rd September 2018 , at the Massey Ferguson Social Club, Coventry . This is a first for Coventry Chess Club and anyone under 18 is welcome to join. There will be an Open and Minor (U120 ECF) Secti...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:46 pm
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 2
Views: 1100

Re: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018

Feel free to either email Ed Goodwin or message myself, for any queries about the event! Some of you may know Ed, as the Chief Organiser of the 28th Leamington Rapidplay 2017, and myself, as an ECF Arbiter in the Midlands area (and Vice-Chair of the Coventry and District League). The idea of this ev...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Wed Sep 12, 2018 4:21 pm
Forum: Congress Diary
Topic: Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)
Replies: 2
Views: 1100

Coventry Chess 1st Junior Open Rapidplay Sunday 23rd Sept 2018 (ECF Rated)

Coventry Chess Club are holding their very First One-Day ECF graded Junior Rapidplay Event, on Sunday 23rd September 2018 , at the Massey Ferguson Social Club, Coventry . This is a first for Coventry Chess Club and anyone under 18 is welcome to join. There will be an Open and Minor (U120 ECF) Secti...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Tue Jul 03, 2018 5:16 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Director of Women's Chess
Replies: 342
Views: 41032

Re: Director of Women's Chess

If you write down a list of what a national chess federation of England has to do, there are some very obvious roles which are matched with Director level responsibilities. In England there's a problem with the number of people playing chess, so is concentrating on a subset of that issue, namely th...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Tue Jul 03, 2018 10:30 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Director of Women's Chess
Replies: 342
Views: 41032

Re: Director of Women's Chess

I might delete "educated" from that. Other than that, I mostly agree with your post, except perhaps... I appreciate the good chuckle, however, I'm optimistic that most people (here) do want to see more people (men and women, in general) playing ...I'm not at all sure about this "wide consensus". I ...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Tue Jul 03, 2018 9:40 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Director of Women's Chess
Replies: 342
Views: 41032

Re: Director of Women's Chess

This whole thread is full of guys saying the same. Let's hope we don't descend into a rerun of a particularly memorable Yes Minister moment https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OhZRDoGZg00 .. the discussion on this thread doesn't look gorgeous either. I think the fact that the wide consensus recognises ...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Mon Jul 02, 2018 11:14 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Director of Women's Chess
Replies: 342
Views: 41032

Re: Director of Women's Chess

There is a couple of points re this Director of Womens Chess matter, and Casual Chess, I think it is very commendable that Amanda Ross runs Casual Chess (local chess needs people running clubs up and country with a focus on Widening Participation), however, there are a couple of points I noted in Fi...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Thu Jun 21, 2018 11:59 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Director of Women's Chess
Replies: 342
Views: 41032

Re: Director of Women's Chess

I must admit I was not expecting to see this particular headline at this point, I think if I was to use terms of my generation, my initial thought was "that was quite woke of the ECF!" [If you urban dictionary it, you may find some appropriate definitions]. Anyhow, there are a few things to say here...
by Hok Yin Stephen Chiu
Thu May 03, 2018 4:30 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: ECF Finance meeting 2018
Replies: 392
Views: 39605

Re: ECF Finance meeting 2018

Statistics at Richard Hadrell's old site. http://www.sccu-chess.com/archive/1516/grad.htm http://www.sccu-chess.com/archive/1011/grad.htm http://www.sccu-chess.com/archive/0203/grad.htm If you read old Congress reports from the 1970s and 1980s the numbers participating were much higher than today. ...