I was going to write that I could imagine that 29 Qf4 looked fuzzy and difficult, but I couldn't see why White didn't just play safe with 29 Qd4. Then I noticed 29...Rxh3 30 gxh3 Ng5 and there's a lot of forks on the board without much time on the clock.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:09 pmShocking turn around in Emms-Haria. John Emms was clearly winning, and then managed to lose.
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Which shows that it is the rules which are wrong, not the arbiters or the players.Nick Ivell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:20 amThere is a difference between breaking the rules and cheating.
Have the rules been broken? Yes. Is loss of the game a reasonable penalty? Absolutely.
Any rule which when broken which results in immediate forfeit of the game should relate to a deliberate act, nor one performed accidentally.
An obvious improvement to the rule would be to have a warning on the first offense. That way any accidental offender will have the rules explained to them.
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"Any rule which when broken which results in immediate forfeit of the game should relate to a deliberate act, nor one performed accidentally.
An obvious improvement to the rule would be to have a warning on the first offense. That way any accidental offender will have the rules explained to them."
I'm not sure how you accidentally pick up a bag and carry it out of a room. That's surely deliberate? I'm not saying there was any intent to do anything except stopping people stealing his bag.
The Laws of Hockey presumably still have a provision that a deliberate offence by a defender in the "D" is punished by a penalty stroke and an accidental one by a short corner. The umpire then has to guess whether something is deliberate. Nightmare.
Ambiguous rules don't help. Surely school teachers enforce rules all the time, and cannot worry if Smith did something accidentally and Jones did it deliberately.
Suppose you do warn anyone for the first offence of taking a bag out of the room, if there's one arbiter, (s)he has to know everybody's name and make a list when it happens. If you happen to have multiple arbiters, they all have to tell each other what's happened. There are better things to do, especially when the players should know exactly what the rules are.
An obvious improvement to the rule would be to have a warning on the first offense. That way any accidental offender will have the rules explained to them."
I'm not sure how you accidentally pick up a bag and carry it out of a room. That's surely deliberate? I'm not saying there was any intent to do anything except stopping people stealing his bag.
The Laws of Hockey presumably still have a provision that a deliberate offence by a defender in the "D" is punished by a penalty stroke and an accidental one by a short corner. The umpire then has to guess whether something is deliberate. Nightmare.
Ambiguous rules don't help. Surely school teachers enforce rules all the time, and cannot worry if Smith did something accidentally and Jones did it deliberately.
Suppose you do warn anyone for the first offence of taking a bag out of the room, if there's one arbiter, (s)he has to know everybody's name and make a list when it happens. If you happen to have multiple arbiters, they all have to tell each other what's happened. There are better things to do, especially when the players should know exactly what the rules are.
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Wouldn't this allow potential cheaters to take their turned off mobile to the toilet, switch it on and off, then leave and go back to the board? Presumably they could rinse and repeat till they get a warning and then cease doing it. Well, until the next tournament anyway.Neill Cooper wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:27 amWhich shows that it is the rules which are wrong, not the arbiters or the players.Nick Ivell wrote: ↑Sat Aug 03, 2019 11:20 amThere is a difference between breaking the rules and cheating.
Have the rules been broken? Yes. Is loss of the game a reasonable penalty? Absolutely.
Any rule which when broken which results in immediate forfeit of the game should relate to a deliberate act, nor one performed accidentally.
An obvious improvement to the rule would be to have a warning on the first offense. That way any accidental offender will have the rules explained to them.
Lorin only got the forfeit of one game. No one thinks he was cheating hence there was no greater penalty. As a professional player he should know the rules, ignorance of them is no defence. We were told every round about mobiles in Torquay and have been for years in FIDE rated tournaments.
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I am convinced that there is positive correlation between people who don't know the rules and those who routinely arrive at the board too late to hear the announcements.Chris Rice wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 8:54 amWe were told every round about mobiles in Torquay and have been for years in FIDE rated tournaments.
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Is it really the case that the winner of the U1950 rating prize in the Major Open gets a place in the British Championship next year?
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Maybe he won the rating prize and separately earned his BCQ?Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:29 pmIs it really the case that the winner of the U1950 rating prize in the Major Open gets a place in the British Championship next year?
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Yes that's what happened as he finished on 6/9Adam Raoof wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:37 pmMaybe he won the rating prize and separately earned his BCQ?Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 12:29 pmIs it really the case that the winner of the U1950 rating prize in the Major Open gets a place in the British Championship next year?
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It's a great pity that here.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: ↑Sun Aug 04, 2019 8:09 pmShocking turn around in Emms-Haria. John Emms was clearly winning, and then managed to lose.
The Queen sac with 28.Bf6 does not quite work.
John obviously does not know the old itchy elbow trick.
Whilst reaching out with your right hand to play the Bishop to f6
at the same time pretend to scratch your right elbow and whilst
playing your Bf6 move slip the King to h2 with the back of your left hand.
Now it works!
28.Bf6 Rxh4 29.Rxh4 Nh7 30.Rxh7 Kxh7. 31.Kg3.
Of course Ravi could have countered with the 'sudden cramp maneuver'.
You jump up clutching your calf screaming 'Cramp!' and knock the pieces all over
the place. The game is replayed from the scoresheet and the King is back on h1.
Complete game. (without the old itchy elbow trick)
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According to https://www.britishchesschampionships.c ... regs-2019/, the qualification rules for 2019 and by implication 2020 were
If rule 5 applies to 2020, they haven't announced a qualifier. I think it would be Ali Roy of Scotland.Section A – Qualification from the British Championships
1 – British Champions
2 – British Ladies/Women’s Champions
3 – Top 20 players and ties in the 2018 British Championship
4 – Top 10 players and ties in the 2018 Major Open
5 – Highest-scoring female player and female players who tied with them in the 2018 Major Open, if no female players qualify under A4 above
6 – 2018 British Under 21 Champion
7 – 2018 British Under 18 Champion
8 – 2018 British Under 16 Champion
9 – 2018 British Over 50 Champion
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Yes I was thinking they’d missed the female qualifier off too. Doh!
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No comment on who's qualified from the over 50 Championship either - all three players who tied for first, or just one of them after a tie-break?
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All three, I think.Ian Thompson wrote: ↑Mon Aug 05, 2019 5:34 pmNo comment on who's qualified from the over 50 Championship either - all three players who tied for first, or just one of them after a tie-break?
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Prize winners.
Rapidplay
1st= Andrew Lewis (Manningtree); James Sherwin
Is that the same James Sherwin who is game one in Fischer's 60MG's.
Rapidplay
1st= Andrew Lewis (Manningtree); James Sherwin
Is that the same James Sherwin who is game one in Fischer's 60MG's.