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- Mon Nov 30, 2015 10:24 am
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Pairings Jam
- Replies: 9
- Views: 2456
Re: Pairings Jam
My brother-in-law told me once of a golfing weekend with a group of friends. Sixteen of them, who played five rounds of golf in groups of four, and he was bemoaning the fact that, although the aim was to play with or against as many of the others as possible, in practice you always ended up with the...
- Mon Sep 14, 2015 8:15 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Any Londoner to help me?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1643
Re: Any Londoner to help me?
If you Google the number in its local UK form (02072537887) it belongs to Gloucester Publishing Limited, and you should be able to find other contact details.
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 4:09 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Public liability insurance
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1800
Re: Public liability insurance
It doesn't cost much via the ECF. It would have cost an extra £75 - we already have £1 million public liability insurance. I'd be interested to hear if anyone has actually claimed damages against a chess organisation. £75 to get cover increased from £1 million to £5 million. So the insurer needs to...
- Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: League Matches Between Teams Of Same Club
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4099
Re: League Matches Between Teams Of Same Club
The vital rule has to be that an individual cannot play for more than one team in the same division. For me that is necessary, and sufficient. You won't like me very much then, I managed to play for all 3 Drunken Knights teams this season. Next season when the 3rd team will be in Div 2 this may wel...
- Tue Jul 07, 2015 10:03 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: League Matches Between Teams Of Same Club
- Replies: 28
- Views: 4099
Re: League Matches Between Teams Of Same Club
The vital rule has to be that an individual cannot play for more than one team in the same division. For me that is necessary, and sufficient.
- Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:59 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Do Arbiters Know The Rules Of Chess?
- Replies: 109
- Views: 12342
Re: Do Arbiters Know The Rules Of Chess?
I'm with Hammer. The game should be played in a spirit of fairness and respect towards your opponent. Pedantry and the use of obscure technicalities to gain advantage is not what chess is about for me, and frankly shouldn't be for anyone else. While I totally agree with the spirit expressed, I very...
- Sat May 16, 2015 10:59 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Kevin Pietersen
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3232
Re: Kevin Pietersen
I never understood the Zola Budd thing. To me it looked like a major embarrassment to the South African government, so I would have expected the anti-apartheid movement to encourage it. So the Daily Mail would be against it, probably going on the grounds that the fast-tracking was somehow not fair p...
- Fri May 15, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: Kevin Pietersen
- Replies: 19
- Views: 3232
Re: Kevin Pietersen
Any chance DR giving us his views on Zola Budd? I certainly enjoyed her Olympics at least as much as Mo Farah's.
- Mon Apr 27, 2015 5:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Is Chess a Sport?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6882
Re: Is Chess a Sport?
"Arguing against the decision, Gallofent said there was an “absolutely clear bright line” between bridge, chess and currently recognised sports. In snooker or rifle-shooting, no one else could take your shot, she said. While in bridge, “somebody else could step up and play my cards for me in these ...
- Sun Apr 26, 2015 7:44 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: The Death of League Chess?
- Replies: 124
- Views: 23008
Re: The Death of League Chess?
I suspect that persuading young people to play league chess is about as likely as persuading them that it is better to use a red phone box than a mobile.
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 1:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Chess Grading Destruction
- Replies: 96
- Views: 13581
Re: Chess Grading Destruction
Possibly two bad moves in thirty games.JustinHorton wrote:How important is the difference between 190 and 195?
- Mon Apr 06, 2015 12:35 pm
- Forum: Chess Questions
- Topic: Chess in the factories.
- Replies: 24
- Views: 5913
Re: Chess in the factories.
These teams used to bring in a lot of players who would never join a chess club. Typically started by one or two keen players, who would recruit workmates who used to play at school but never kept it up. That's how I came back to chess. We did very well for a while. But gradually the league's eligib...
- Fri Apr 03, 2015 5:49 pm
- Forum: Adverts
- Topic: TFL chess club
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1889
Re: TFL chess club
If the employees of TFL were ever to embark on a work-to-rule, I can think of one thing they could do that would have no impact on their customers, cost their employer a lot of money, and be highly beneficial to the ECF.
- Fri Apr 03, 2015 4:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Rules query - starting clock without moving
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3853
Re: Rules query - starting clock without moving
It's not really something the ECF or the BCF has ever really had to courage to try and write. Namely a standard set of rules for the conduct of evening league chess matches. I think I prefer muddling through, which works pretty well in practice! I do think it would be a small improvement to the Rul...
- Fri Apr 03, 2015 12:36 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Rules query - starting clock without moving
- Replies: 27
- Views: 3853
Re: Rules query - starting clock without moving
The logic behind this is not the worry that your opponent could take five minutes to read up all the theory on 1.e4. It's that you don't know who your opponent is in a team game. If you normally open 1.e4, but a particular opponent always does well against you in his pet variation, you might want to...