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- Thu Apr 17, 2014 6:50 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
- Replies: 267
- Views: 20265
Re: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
Morning everyone. Thanks Alex for posting that for me. Was getting Internet upgraded and it took longer to be activated. Life without the www! Sorry for the confusion yesterday. It was only when Lara texted me that I realised I had written QC. I have no idea where that came from as he is arbiters. P...
- Wed Apr 16, 2014 10:26 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
- Replies: 267
- Views: 20265
Re: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
So if I understand this right: (a) Sean tells us that the ECF apparently has a communication from FIDE confirming that licensed arbiters are not required to be present at non-norm FIDE rated events. Nick has also confirmed that licensed arbiters are not required to be present. (b) Andy, in the best...
- Wed Apr 16, 2014 8:43 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
- Replies: 267
- Views: 20265
Re: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
Would have preferred Sean and Nicks version to be confirmed to be honest as we want to FIDE rate one of our team knockout tournaments up here. C'est la vie...
- Wed Apr 16, 2014 7:16 am
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
- Replies: 267
- Views: 20265
Re: ECF Council Meeting 12 April 2014
So is there a definitive/agreed FIDE position or not on whether a licenced arbiter does actually need to be present at a FIDE rated event, or whether it's OK for him/her to be at the end of a telephone? As Nick says, the answer is yes if it is a norm event, but no otherwise. The ECF have an email f...
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:24 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Anyone got a DGT board for home use?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1350
Re: Anyone got a DGT board for home use?
I have a usb board and connect to playchess.com through the interface or ICC/FICS with a third party program. Works really well to be honest
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:14 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Anyone got a DGT board for home use?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 1350
Re: Anyone got a DGT board for home use?
Yes I have one. No good for anything less than 15 minutes per side. I used to play in an online league where the time control was 60+15s and it was really good for that
- Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:12 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: April fools day jokes
- Replies: 16
- Views: 2348
Re: April fools day jokes
A few years ago, April 1 was on the Edinburgh Congress weekend and I was doing the live board for it as well as arbiting. For the morning session I slipped in a couple of players that were not there and manually entered the Immortal game. Got quite a few bites with that one!
- Tue Dec 31, 2013 3:34 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: New Year Honours List 2014
- Replies: 2
- Views: 934
Re: New Year Honours List 2014
good grief, someone from Chess getting a gong. Fantastic news
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:29 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begins
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 119071
Re: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begi
BDO at their best. According to Lakeside he is 6th, Either that or they have not updated yet (which given they have done the draw...)
http://www.lakesideworlddarts.co.uk/profiles.php
http://www.lakesideworlddarts.co.uk/profiles.php
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 4:07 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begins
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 119071
Re: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begi
The BDO 1st prize in 1993 was £30,000 and rose to £46,000 in 2001. It's £100,000 now. (The prize money for the runner-up has only doubled in that time.) The PDC as it became had a 1st prize of £16,000 in 1993, rose only to £33,000 in 2001. So the PDC wasn't really succeeding until Hearn came a...
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:28 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begins
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 119071
Re: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begi
And on who to vote for. Well I have spent three months trying to get answers from the Kasparov team on questions for a Council meeting we have coming up. No one wants to communicate. With no evidence, it is going to be hard to convince people to vote for them so we may be voting for Kirsan
- Mon Dec 23, 2013 3:25 pm
- Forum: International News
- Topic: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begins
- Replies: 1087
- Views: 119071
Re: Kasparov vs Ilyumzhinov: the FIDE Presidency battle begi
Can I just correct a few posters about the Darts PDC thing. The split took place in 1993 when 16 players ( From memory it was Taylor, Priestly, Harrington, Lowe, Warriner, Bristow, Wilson, Anderson, Harvey, Lazerenko, Deller, Gregory and a couple of others who I can't remember, I helped to organize ...
- Fri Oct 25, 2013 7:01 pm
- Forum: Live Games
- Topic: Scarborough Congress
- Replies: 0
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- Thu Oct 24, 2013 1:31 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Match abandoned
- Replies: 26
- Views: 4496
Re: Match abandoned
I can remember playing quite a few matches against Holy Cross up here when there was bagpipe practice in the next room. Oddly did not bother us.
There was one match against Bearsden where there was a Choir practice in the building. That was really good to play chess with.
There was one match against Bearsden where there was a Choir practice in the building. That was really good to play chess with.
- Thu Oct 17, 2013 12:58 pm
- Forum: ECF Matters
- Topic: Nigel Short about Andrew Paulson, Agon, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov
- Replies: 41
- Views: 6744
Re: Nigel Short about Andrew Paulson, Agon, Kirsan Ilyumzhin
John, I guess the argument goes something like this. The Presidential race between Kirsan and Kasparov could be close. It is rather unlikely than any countries in Western Europe will vote for Kirsan. Of all the countries in Western Europe perhaps England is most likely to vote for Kirsan (or more l...