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by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 6:05 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: ENG FIDE Ratings must be ECF Members
Replies: 319
Views: 26940

Re: ENG FIDE Ratings must be ECF Members

It's not about money, it's about being fair to the vast majority of players, including you, who pay their ECF membership fees because they play in rated events. What would you prefer us do? Nothing? As far as I am aware, the ECF pay FIDE by head of active players (1 euro per year?) and by ratings f...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 5:21 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: ENG FIDE Ratings must be ECF Members
Replies: 319
Views: 26940

Re: ENG FIDE Ratings must be ECF Members

I can confirm that, as previously advised, players with an ENG country code will be de-registered on 1st July if they have not paid their ECF membership. So tell us what this means in practice? Does this mean that the complete rating history will disappear from the FIDE rating site, or that just an...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 3:57 pm
Forum: MCCU
Topic: 2011 AGM
Replies: 57
Views: 22961

Re: 2011 AGM

Yes it does. Hold the "+" in, and it tells you how many times the clock has been pressed. It's not on the standard display though and you don't really want players randomly pressing obscure buttons on the clock during play. Useful features for arbiters though - they would have the probable move cou...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:46 pm
Forum: Chess Questions
Topic: Superfluous notation clarification
Replies: 13
Views: 2985

Re: Superfluous notation clarification

. I've long thought that algebraic was a conspiracy foisted on chess players, by publishing companies trying to save money on printing ink. On Continental Europe outside of Spain, the notation has always been algebraic. It encourages cleaner thought, an important square in the Nimzo Indian is alway...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:46 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

I agree that that's a more pertinent question. I think people value having the games online quickly. I guess if people are there producing the games quickly, there's no harm in having them bound and sold after the event as a souvenir, which is what happens now. A paper copy is made available on a d...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:34 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

As far as I know, the ECF only sends out the bare minimum it's required to. It does now, but it took years to catch up with the idea that reports etc. could be downloaded from the website, possibly as recently as the Farthing review. Again from the SCCU archive http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/0405/bcf.ht...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:07 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

Alex Holowczak wrote: Actually, I understand that printing certain Council papers is a need to have under Company Law.
There is something of a cost and handling difference between printing the bare minimum legal requirement and sending out twice a year, 100 sheets of A4 to every organisation on the voting register.
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 1:02 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

even whether it was discussed ? There's clear evidence that it was discussed but it got tangled up with the row over the assets of "The Chess Centre Limited". Full details at http://www.sccu.ndo.co.uk/0708/bcf.htm. As reported Chess Centre Ltd and other things. For Other Things read "charitable sta...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:34 pm
Forum: MCCU
Topic: 2011 AGM
Replies: 57
Views: 22961

Re: 2011 AGM

At the risk of the thread veering off-topic, you can program the DGT 2010 to do either using mode 21. Not off topic at all. If you have two possible settings, the rules should say which one you use. I've almost come to the conclusion that rules which say x in y plus z , whether with or without incr...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:23 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

The point is, it does the jobs that no one else wants to do for £0. There's still some "nice to haves" rather than "need to haves". To be topical, player of the year awards are not essential to the operation of a national chess federation. Andrew eliminated a number of the "nice to haves" as part ...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:18 am
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote
Replies: 177
Views: 10917

Re: The Funding of the English Chess Federation vote

Thanks for the very comprehensive list. It wasn't clear to me what was done by the paid staff of the ECF and what was done by the unpaid volunteers, but now I know! Apart from the (obsolete) printed Grading List and some IT support, nothing directly on grading. So the most visible part to the Club ...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:09 am
Forum: MCCU
Topic: 2011 AGM
Replies: 57
Views: 22961

Re: 2011 AGM

So we went for 35 moves/100 minutes + 20 minutes + 10 second increments. On the basis of our experience to date this seems to be working out okay. Did you ever resolve whether (a) you add the extra 20 minutes when the clock has counted 35 or (b) you add the extra 20 minutes the first time one of th...
by Roger de Coverly
Wed Jun 15, 2011 9:55 am
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: FIDE rating calculations
Replies: 33
Views: 7171

Re: FIDE rating calculations

I never knew that. Wonder if you can spot this sort of thing in the history of the rating lists? For k=15, at around 50 games, you could overshoot. Using the tables at http://www.fide.com/fide/handbook.html?id=73&view=article , you can observe that for a rating difference of 80, the lower rated pla...
by Roger de Coverly
Tue Jun 14, 2011 8:10 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: FIDE rating calculations
Replies: 33
Views: 7171

Re: FIDE rating calculations

Or to put it another way, would those who devised the system have envisaged a set of games played over the course of 7-8 months being rated within a system where new grading lists are published every 2 months? Elo designed the system to cope with conditions in the USA where leagues don't exist. Whe...
by Roger de Coverly
Tue Jun 14, 2011 7:54 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: FIDE rating calculations
Replies: 33
Views: 7171

Re: FIDE rating calculations

k-factor=25 helping I can understand, but how do 4NCL board order rules and seeded Swiss pairings help? The board order rules in the 4NCL require you to play below a player who out-rates you by 80 points. But if you are a hundred or more points under-rated you will be at the tail of the team and po...