What would you pay for a title?
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
"What would you pay for a title?"
It depends on the title. Zero for zero.
Remember, though, that even the award of a university degree is conditional on fees (and fines) being paid; never mind that you've passed the exams; never mind whether the university course actually helped you to pass them.
It depends on the title. Zero for zero.
Remember, though, that even the award of a university degree is conditional on fees (and fines) being paid; never mind that you've passed the exams; never mind whether the university course actually helped you to pass them.
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
Users of both Arena and the ECF's official forum are rare.
There's a satisfied user's testimony on Arena at the official forum.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/Forum/vi ... ?f=7&t=246
It's not a problem unique to Arena, but whatever spyware they install or sophisticated engine matching they use, you can never be confident that an anonymous or unknown on-line opponent isn't using another computer, checking a book, asking a friend etc. Perhaps if seeing your opponent through SkYPE became commonplace, that attitude might change.
There's a satisfied user's testimony on Arena at the official forum.
http://www.englishchess.org.uk/Forum/vi ... ?f=7&t=246
It's not a problem unique to Arena, but whatever spyware they install or sophisticated engine matching they use, you can never be confident that an anonymous or unknown on-line opponent isn't using another computer, checking a book, asking a friend etc. Perhaps if seeing your opponent through SkYPE became commonplace, that attitude might change.
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
Yes I certainly won’t be bothering to send the ECF a tenner for the little certificate proclaiming me to be a “Team Master” or whatever it is I qualify for these days. Though will I feel the same way if by some miracle I ever get the grade up to 200 and qualify for the National Master title? Which almost sounds real - Well that won’t be happening, so no point worrying too much!
To be fair I know several people on the relatively small “Chess Maestro” List and know they just sent off for it for the laugh. One Miss Goldsmith though I suspect is deadly serious
To be fair I know several people on the relatively small “Chess Maestro” List and know they just sent off for it for the laugh. One Miss Goldsmith though I suspect is deadly serious
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What do people think, then, of those of us with honours degrees from Oxford University who sent off a tenner 21 terms after matriculation for an MA? Is it OK if we only did it for a laugh?
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
It's been suggested that the FIDE FM title stands for "found money". But a 2300 rating is needed to qualify for the offer thus raising the bar in the same way that an Oxford or Cambridge honours degree is needed for an MA.Brian Towers wrote:What do people think, then, of those of us with honours degrees from Oxford University who sent off a tenner 21 terms after matriculation for an MA?
FIDE are awarding (selling) titles for the accomplishment of achieving a 1100 rating on a chess server.
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I would certainly be disappointed if the holder of such a degree, made such a bad analogy the two things are clearly very differentBrian Towers wrote:What do people think, then, of those of us with honours degrees from Oxford University who sent off a tenner 21 terms after matriculation for an MA? Is it OK if we only did it for a laugh?
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Well, I was going to join the arena for a slightly more "serious" place to play online chess.
But whilst my FIDE ID tells me I'm Welsh
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1803280
That is not one of the options in the Nationality tab when signing up!
But whilst my FIDE ID tells me I'm Welsh
http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=1803280
That is not one of the options in the Nationality tab when signing up!
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Neither is English, Scottish, British or UK by the look of it, not that I would want to declare myself either of the last two.
So, as there's not many of them left I guess I'll go with Manx.
So, as there's not many of them left I guess I'll go with Manx.
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corr, Java too, what a mess.
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You are quite right, of course. The approach of FIDE and the ECF is much more in keeping with the modern, progressive ethos of prizes for all and nobody finishing last than the archaic, elitist one of the older English and Scottish universities. Although the Scottish universities do at least require 4 years of study for an MA.Jon Mahony wrote:I would certainly be disappointed if the holder of such a degree, made such a bad analogy the two things are clearly very differentBrian Towers wrote:What do people think, then, of those of us with honours degrees from Oxford University who sent off a tenner 21 terms after matriculation for an MA? Is it OK if we only did it for a laugh?
Ah, but I was so much older then. I'm younger than that now.
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
Oxford, Cambridge and Dublin, I believe, offer the 'MA for a tenner, guv' degree.Brian Towers wrote:You are quite right, of course. The approach of FIDE and the ECF is much more in keeping with the modern, progressive ethos of prizes for all and nobody finishing last than the archaic, elitist one of the older English and Scottish universities. Although the Scottish universities do at least require 4 years of study for an MA.Jon Mahony wrote:I would certainly be disappointed if the holder of such a degree, made such a bad analogy the two things are clearly very differentBrian Towers wrote:What do people think, then, of those of us with honours degrees from Oxford University who sent off a tenner 21 terms after matriculation for an MA? Is it OK if we only did it for a laugh?
It would be fair to say, I think, that this custom is regarded as something of a joke in academic circles - certainly outside Oxbridge. Most people would assume an MA, like other Master's degrees, was something you had to work for, rather than being "conferred by right" (of having a Bachelor degree), as the University of Cambridge website puts it.
Incidentally, to allude to another ongoing thread, one notes that the multi-title-winning Times chess correspondent is also the proud possessor of an "MA (Cantab)".
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Well in defence I would say that the MA was invented by the older universities and marked the stage at which academic experience plus years of maturity conferred the right to teach. The fact that other places chose to change the basis on which it was awarded is hardly the fault of the originators of the title!
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
How much did "grandmaster" A Crisan pay for his "title"? Anyone know??
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Re: What would you pay for a title?
Good Lord yes.AustinElliott wrote:
It would be fair to say, I think, that this custom is regarded as something of a joke in academic circles - certainly outside Oxbridge.
When I was working in the library of Oxford's other university, one of my colleagues was unwise enough to say she was sending her cheque for her Oxford MA, something she regretted after a week or so of being asked if she could pick me up a couple of A Levels for a fiver.
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BTW how many titles are there and what is the rank of the titles and what ratings do you have to get to get them?