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I'm assuming with a 6 person APA there's no possibility of taking a half point bye
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More complete rubbish, with a completely random number thrown inMike Gunn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:24 amIf an infectious person plays in a 5 round Swiss he is potentially infecting up to another 31 people but if he plays in an all play all section of 6 then just 5 players are at risk.Jacques Parry wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 9:24 pmIf I play three games in a day, and don't speak to anyone except my opponents, am I undertaking an activity "with" the other 20 players in my section?
APA sections are definitely the way to go both from the point of view of both reducing possible infection and also staying within the law!
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The maths is quite straight forward. In an earlier post Alex McFarlane described how (in his experience) you could tell which round you were in at Hastings according to the amount of coughing he could hear. It is just common sense that by restricting contacts you restrict the spread of a virus.
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A sudden, unexpected cluster of cases is really common. For example, just yesterday, a hospital in our area which had no Covid cases at all, reported that 15 in-patients for other conditions had tested Covid positive. Probably infected by visitors to the hospital. Presumably in an environment that was reasonably sterile and distanced.
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Strange conclusion. Several visitors all turn up at the same time and infect all these people? Or one person turns up and visits 15 people and infects them all? Isn't it vastly more likely that it's someone who works there, and there has been a spectacular failure in the sterile and distanced environment?Matt Bridgeman wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:00 amA sudden, unexpected cluster of cases is really common. For example, just yesterday, a hospital in our area which had no Covid cases at all, reported that 15 in-patients for other conditions had tested Covid positive. Probably infected by visitors to the hospital. Presumably in an environment that was reasonably sterile and distanced.
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It was actually a ‘know what happened’ not a speculation. And now visiting is very limited at the hospital.
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Perhaps you could enlighten us with your Mathematical ability and then follow up with your medical knowledge. The WHO think that people are primarily only infectious when displaying symptoms and that the incubation period for CoVid19 is 3 to 14 days.Mike Gunn wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:52 amThe maths is quite straight forward. In an earlier post Alex McFarlane described how (in his experience) you could tell which round you were in at Hastings according to the amount of coughing he could hear. It is just common sense that by restricting contacts you restrict the spread of a virus.
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Actually the WHO (like everybody else) doesn't know how the infection is spread. If you want some informed comment from an expert then see the examples in the blog by Erin Bromage (
https://tinyurl.com/y83xeygm. The examples of the restaurant, workplace and choir seem to indicate that airborne transmission is the main route to infection but we note the many precautions that are recommended against transmission by contact (hand washing, sanitising surfaces etc). The common feature of all these cases is people in close proximity for significant periods of time and this is exactly what you have in case of a chess tournament. Note in particular how long a typical game of congress chess lasts compared to the timings in the EB blog and also the fact that you are handling the same chess pieces as your opponent.
If play in a large Swiss section (as at Hastings for example) then one person can pass on the virus to one other person in round 1, a further 2 people can be infected from this original source in round 2, 4 in round 3, 8 in round 4 and 16 in round 5. 1+2+4+8+16=31. Of course this is an upper limit (you note that I said "up to 31") but it clearly establishes the principle that APA sections are to be preferred to the traditional Swiss.
https://tinyurl.com/y83xeygm. The examples of the restaurant, workplace and choir seem to indicate that airborne transmission is the main route to infection but we note the many precautions that are recommended against transmission by contact (hand washing, sanitising surfaces etc). The common feature of all these cases is people in close proximity for significant periods of time and this is exactly what you have in case of a chess tournament. Note in particular how long a typical game of congress chess lasts compared to the timings in the EB blog and also the fact that you are handling the same chess pieces as your opponent.
If play in a large Swiss section (as at Hastings for example) then one person can pass on the virus to one other person in round 1, a further 2 people can be infected from this original source in round 2, 4 in round 3, 8 in round 4 and 16 in round 5. 1+2+4+8+16=31. Of course this is an upper limit (you note that I said "up to 31") but it clearly establishes the principle that APA sections are to be preferred to the traditional Swiss.
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Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 9:37 amMore complete rubbish, with a completely random number thrown in
Matthew, I would like to try some logic.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 10:20 amPerhaps you could enlighten us with your Mathematical ability and then follow up with your medical knowledge.
1. In Surrey, Mike Gunn has been one of the strongest advocates for seeking to resume OTB chess as soon as possible.
2. People are more likely to feel comfortable with only coming into contact with a limited number of people, even if their reasons for so feeling are "complete rubbish".
Therefore:
3. Your comments which I have quoted above are rather unhelpful.
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David,
The important thing is to have appropriate control measures in place. A player should come into contact with 5 players in a a 5 round Swiss and 5 players in a 6 player all-play-all. To pretend that all play alls are somehow safer detracts from the real issues and doesn't help anyone.
The important thing is to have appropriate control measures in place. A player should come into contact with 5 players in a a 5 round Swiss and 5 players in a 6 player all-play-all. To pretend that all play alls are somehow safer detracts from the real issues and doesn't help anyone.
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Dominic Cummings wrote that one of his top gripes at the Department for Education was when lawyers told him that doing X "could be illegal", and that not doing X also "could be illegal". The result was management by judicial review. Do the opposite of what you wanted to do, get JR'd, lose the JR, and then do what you wanted to do. The press will have no idea what's going on and will probably hail the JR as another cock-up by the government.NickFaulks wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:33 pmPossibly, except that reading them still seems to leave skilled lawyers as uninformed as when they started. That is the problem faced not just by chess organisers but by anyone trying to do anything constructive in this country.Richard Bates wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 8:42 pmI think eminently reasonable point re: ECF "guidance" - especially as it appears to have been released in advance of legal regulations actually being published and presumably therefore uninformed by them!
Um, no. Two people, to whom you've already given the virus, meeting each other, is safer than them meeting anyone else. It's about the number of connections between clusters, not the number of connections within them.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:19 pmDavid,
The important thing is to have appropriate control measures in place. A player should come into contact with 5 players in a a 5 round Swiss and 5 players in a 6 player all-play-all. To pretend that all play alls are somehow safer detracts from the real issues and doesn't help anyone.
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David,
There may well be people who are more comfortable playing in an all play alls, but I think these players really have a long hard think about things. What is going to be their reaction when they find out one of their group is having lunch at the pub? If someone thinks a swiss tournament is too big a risk that is fair enough, but really then it isn't time for them to return to over the board chess.
There may well be people who are more comfortable playing in an all play alls, but I think these players really have a long hard think about things. What is going to be their reaction when they find out one of their group is having lunch at the pub? If someone thinks a swiss tournament is too big a risk that is fair enough, but really then it isn't time for them to return to over the board chess.
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The English Bridge Union has updated its advice at https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3901.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:19 pmDavid,
The important thing is to have appropriate control measures in place. A player should come into contact with 5 players in a a 5 round Swiss and 5 players in a 6 player all-play-all. To pretend that all play alls are somehow safer detracts from the real issues and doesn't help anyone.
From what I read there, it seems to me that, in a chess context, it would be possible to organise simultaneous 6 player all-play-alls in some venues but that it would not be possible to organise a Swiss tournament in those venues.
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Chris,Chris Goodall wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:46 pmUm, no. Two people, to whom you've already given the virus, meeting each other, is safer than them meeting anyone else. It's about the number of connections between clusters, not the number of connections within them.Matthew Turner wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 12:19 pmDavid,
The important thing is to have appropriate control measures in place. A player should come into contact with 5 players in a a 5 round Swiss and 5 players in a 6 player all-play-all. To pretend that all play alls are somehow safer detracts from the real issues and doesn't help anyone.
Connections between clusters are important factor for spreading the virus and connections within a cluster are important for the virulence of the virus.
In a weekend chess tournament, I can catch CoVid19, or I can pass it on to someone else, but there is no evidence that I can do both. If there were a series of events then if the players always played in the same all play all sections then there would be a reduced number of infection, but those infections would (in all likelihood) be more serious. I am not sure that is a necessarily a good trade off. Always playing the same players would also get pretty boring.
If organisers are willing to put on events, then players have to decide if it is worth the risk, but all play alls are not the answer.
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You can have a club meeting of six players without any issues.David Sedgwick wrote: ↑Tue Sep 15, 2020 1:04 pmThe English Bridge Union has updated its advice at https://www.ebu.co.uk/node/3901.
From what I read there, it seems to me that, in a chess context, it would be possible to organise simultaneous 6 player all-play-alls in some venues but that it would not be possible to organise a Swiss tournament in those venues.
Once you have two groups of six, the two groups must not mingle in anyway, either at the club or outside, as that would be breaking the law.
Looks to me like a Chess Congress / Swiss Tournament would be breaking the law.
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