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by MSoszynski
Tue Feb 02, 2016 7:34 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Grading Cheat or Patzer?
Replies: 73
Views: 8624

Re: Grading Cheat or Patzer?

One incident I saw happen... It is the last round of a tournament. In a certain pairing neither player is in contention for a prize. The villain beats his opponent who is now dejected and in any case in a hurry to get home. The villain offers to hand in the results slips for him. He does so, but rep...
by MSoszynski
Fri Dec 18, 2015 4:17 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: What would you pay for a title?
Replies: 56
Views: 10266

Re: What would you pay for a title?

Back to the original thead, i believe that a lot of people I know who learnt chess online don't really care for titles unless it is grandmaster or at a push international master. If I was good enough for a title I wouldn't say no, but I shant be bothering sending my tenner off to the ECF for my clu...
by MSoszynski
Thu Dec 03, 2015 11:25 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: good explanation of board count online
Replies: 10
Views: 2272

Re: good explanation of board count online

Presumably on the basis of rewarding 'strength in depth' but a silly idea as it encourages 'cheating' by placing your better players on lower boards! Presumably there will be other rules about strength order. Anyway, board count will only apply when there is a tie that hasn't been resolved elsewise...
by MSoszynski
Thu Dec 03, 2015 7:14 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: good explanation of board count online
Replies: 10
Views: 2272

Re: good explanation of board count online

Roger de Coverly wrote:I wouldn't be confident that it's used internationally.
It is used internationally, referred to as the Berlin System.

Incidentally, I remember seeing at least one English competition being settled by reverse board count.
by MSoszynski
Sun Nov 22, 2015 9:38 pm
Forum: News and Support
Topic: October Analytics
Replies: 3
Views: 3365

Re: October Analytics

Is this good, bad or indifferent? Up, down or sideways?
by MSoszynski
Thu Oct 29, 2015 3:05 pm
Forum: ECF Matters
Topic: National Club 2016
Replies: 3
Views: 1143

Re: National Club 2016

David Gilbert wrote:Sutton Coldfield must be stopped from winning (almost) everything again!
I humbly beg to differ.
signed
Treasurer of Sutton Coldfield CC
http://www.suttonchess.org.uk/
by MSoszynski
Thu Oct 08, 2015 9:06 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Disputes with an Associations member or League member
Replies: 6
Views: 867

Re: Disputes with an Associations member or League member

Is there anything in the ECF Rules about this? because there a person i know who need some advice and i did not have the answer for him/her. He/She feel that a member of a association/league has victimised him personal and feel that he/she is being bullied/Prejudice and want some help? also has pro...
by MSoszynski
Mon Sep 07, 2015 6:38 am
Forum: Junior Chess
Topic: Juniors playing graded chess
Replies: 3
Views: 1456

Re: Juniors playing graded chess

David Blower wrote:When should a junior start playing graded chess (i.e. going into the clubs teams to play league chess against other clubs.)
As soon as possible when they want to.

I wouldn't impose higher standards on juniors than on adult starters.
by MSoszynski
Tue Aug 25, 2015 7:34 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Changing a league's grading limits
Replies: 14
Views: 1880

Re: Changing a league's grading limits

What exactly is the problem? How many teams have entered Division 1 this season? And you want to change that? Because? Look at the format of Division 2. It's so successful that the Chase Trophy was changed to the same grading limit (U550) with the result that, as intended, more teams entered the Ch...
by MSoszynski
Mon Aug 17, 2015 7:20 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Changing a league's grading limits
Replies: 14
Views: 1880

Re: Changing a league's grading limits

Thanks for all the responses. The question of assuming grades to ungraded players is another thing as well. So I will basically ask are there any other aggregate grading leagues, and what assumed grades are given to ungraded players. Another thing as well as what? My Club - Sutton Coldfield - compe...
by MSoszynski
Fri Aug 14, 2015 7:21 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Changing a league's grading limits
Replies: 14
Views: 1880

Re: Changing a league's grading limits

So the question is how do I go about doing this (please don't state that I put it forward as a proposal at an AGM, and then it gets voted upon.) What I mean is, do I need to do some sort of "election campaign" to make sure that people vote for my proposal. Something vital comes alongside that. You ...
by MSoszynski
Sun Aug 02, 2015 7:53 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is Chess a Sport?
Replies: 41
Views: 6894

Re: Is Chess a Sport?

Robert Stokes wrote:Another thought. What other "sport" can be played by post or over the internet?
Archery, for one. There is even such a thing as the World Correspondence Archery Tournament:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B386A1 ... 15a0k/view
Not decided by "subjective judgement" either.
by MSoszynski
Wed Jul 29, 2015 11:33 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Features of a chess website
Replies: 10
Views: 1403

Re: Features of a chess website

Hello. The website of my province offers a chess calendar, listing all events to be held in the province over the whole year together with their dates. Do you think it is necessary to include it? Where else would someone expect to find the chess events of a province than on that province's chess we...
by MSoszynski
Wed Jul 08, 2015 2:58 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: American Tournaments
Replies: 5
Views: 1738

Re: American Tournaments

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by MSoszynski
Wed Jun 24, 2015 8:18 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Getting back lapsed members to the club
Replies: 14
Views: 2307

Re: Getting back lapsed members to the club

The main thing that frustrates me is when members join the club, seem enthusiastic for a couple of weeks and then vanish never to be heard from again, even in response to an email follow up. If the club has done something wrong at least you have the feedback as data. On two occasions an adult has v...