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by Malcolm Peacock
Thu May 23, 2013 12:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: League Champions!
Replies: 93
Views: 12571

Re: League Champions!

In the Blackpool and Fylde League, the team captains put match reports in our web system http://www.popmalc.org.uk/sc/?q=node/77/home commenting on how the games went which creates a bit of interested because people have a look to see what happens in the other matches. Our press secretary then colla...
by Malcolm Peacock
Thu May 09, 2013 4:09 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Best Disputes
Replies: 79
Views: 8078

Re: Best Disputes

This could have been a good dispute from the local league, but I believe it was resolved amicably: 1) Home team captain phones away team secretary to ask why their team has not yet arrived. 2) Away team arrive late, match starts .. 3) Home team captain's mobile phone rings, away team claim the game ...
by Malcolm Peacock
Wed Feb 20, 2013 4:56 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: Membership Services
Replies: 128
Views: 13106

Re: Membership Services

I would like the ECF to provide a standardised league management website template. This would compute league and knock out results and compile a league table. It would be able to provide team and player results for viewing and would automatically submit to the ECF for grading. ....... John Upham ha...
by Malcolm Peacock
Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:24 pm
Forum: Congress Results
Topic: Preston Chess Congress
Replies: 7
Views: 3492

Re: Preston Chess Congress

Brendan O'Gorman wrote:Photos here: http://tinyurl.com/Preston2012
Thanks Brendan. None of us look very happy, do we ?
by Malcolm Peacock
Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:21 pm
Forum: Congress Results
Topic: Preston Chess Congress
Replies: 7
Views: 3492

Re: Preston Chess Congress

Reg Clucas wrote:Interesting scoring system in the Open - 3.4/5 :?: :)
Thanks for pointing that out. 0.4 for a draw might be interesting though ...
by Malcolm Peacock
Mon Nov 19, 2012 5:17 pm
Forum: Congress Results
Topic: Preston Chess Congress
Replies: 7
Views: 3492

Re: Preston Chess Congress

There was a sainsbury's carrier bag containing a grey addidas hoody top with red trim and 2 blank score sheets folded up small left behind near the open/major, if anyone has lost it (the top that is - presumably they didn't want the blank score sheets)
by Malcolm Peacock
Sun Nov 18, 2012 9:00 pm
Forum: Congress Results
Topic: Preston Chess Congress
Replies: 7
Views: 3492

Preston Chess Congress

The results of Preston Chess congress can be found here:
http://chess.popmalc.org.uk/node/354

155 took part. 130 were ECF silver members.
The prices were higher than last year, due to the cost of the venue, but numbers were up.
by Malcolm Peacock
Sun Jun 17, 2012 10:03 pm
Forum: Adverts
Topic: Chess Table and Ivory Chess Set
Replies: 0
Views: 1570

Chess Table and Ivory Chess Set

I am advertising this on behalf of someone whose late father owned it. Please PM me if interested and I will forward their email address to you. We have a wonderful McIntosh chess table (commissioned for him for his 60th birthday) made of Rosewood and with the chess board beautifully inlayed and a C...
by Malcolm Peacock
Fri Mar 02, 2012 1:04 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: Dates of birth and privacy
Replies: 6
Views: 2881

Re: Dates of birth and privacy

This is great. It gave me the idea that one could map each move of a chess game onto the ascii character set. If a1=0 and h8=63 then a full move can become a 128 bit number. For example e2 is 4+1*8 and e4 is 4+3*8 which add up to 40 which is a (. My attempts to find hidden messages in chess games ha...
by Malcolm Peacock
Wed Feb 29, 2012 9:59 pm
Forum: Rating Debate
Topic: Regular updating
Replies: 18
Views: 4374

Re: Regular updating

I don't know that. As the Surrey Border League Grader, and the person who did the January grading for the Hillingdon & District League and the City of London Rapidplay League, I know that this software, as of mid-January, had no ECF grading capability at all. The data is held in the website databas...
by Malcolm Peacock
Tue Jan 31, 2012 5:06 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Chess annotation in the style of modern art
Replies: 3
Views: 1160

Chess annotation in the style of modern art

It amused me, but I have a strange sense of humor ...

http://chess.popmalc.org.uk/node/150
by Malcolm Peacock
Tue Jan 17, 2012 5:41 pm
Forum: Chess Development
Topic: Enter Your Local Chess Congress Online!
Replies: 11
Views: 7427

Re: Enter Your Local Chess Congress Online!

With that said I've set up my entry form emails to automatically submit via Outlook (using VBA) the details of the email into MS excel which adds each entry into a small database. I can then ensure grades are correct (V-Look up) and Membership discounts are credible (once I get a list of member nam...
by Malcolm Peacock
Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:00 pm
Forum: Chess Development
Topic: Enter Your Local Chess Congress Online!
Replies: 11
Views: 7427

Re: Enter Your Local Chess Congress Online!

I have done online entry for Preston for 3 years now. It was up to about 30% of entries last year. Mostly it works quite well, although there are always a few people who seem to have trouble with PayPals web site and give up and post it instead (or enter multiple times, enter the wrong section, forg...
by Malcolm Peacock
Thu Nov 24, 2011 10:02 pm
Forum: Chess Questions
Topic: Chess for Zebras
Replies: 13
Views: 3211

Re: Chess for Zebras

David Sedgwick wrote:Jonathan Rowson's books do seem to polarise opinion a lot - you either love them or hate them.
I love them.
by Malcolm Peacock
Wed Nov 09, 2011 8:30 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Preston Chess Congress - Pictures
Replies: 4
Views: 1141

Re: Preston Chess Congress - Pictures

The only picture I have so far of the action is now on the web site (as are the results)
http://chess.popmalc.org.uk/congress?q=node/143

There were also some photographs taken of the prize winners which I would be able to get hold of