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Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:33 pm
by Paul Cooksey
Jonathan is now one point ahead of me
. We should definitely have frozen the 2017 grades.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:36 pm
by Julie Denning
Paul Cooksey wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:33 pm
Jonathan is now one point ahead of me
. We should definitely have frozen the 2017 grades.
You think you have a problem? I'm definitely in favour of reverting to 2017 grades!
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:47 pm
by Andrew Zigmond
I've managed a six point increase. Which rather defies logic as I've been in muppet mode all season.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 12:56 pm
by Alex Holowczak
So the ECF Director lost 8 points, and the person who retired as an ECF Officer gained 6 points. Go figure.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:10 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"So the ECF Director lost 8 points, and the person who retired as an ECF Officer gained 6 points. Go figure. "
Yes - avoiding administration helps! I'm pleased to have gone up 11, as it will annoy those who say only juniors increase their gradings...
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:39 pm
by Jonathan Rogers
Looks like my really big crash is yet to come (great). You never really know where you are when you play just a handful of games each year, or at least, I never do.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 2:01 pm
by David Robertson
Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:10 pm
I'm pleased to have gone up 11
This is a fantastic achievement. Remarkable. And at your age too. Congratulations!
Where do you find the energy, the commitment, the creativity, the inspiration? And then there's that relentless search for improvement; the stubborn refusal to bow before the Grim Reaper; the optimism...
....to set budding more,
And still more, later flowers for the bees,
Until they think warm days will never cease,
For summer has o'er-brimm'd their clammy cells
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:42 pm
by Paul McKeown
Any stats on the new list?
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2018 4:48 pm
by Michael Farthing
Well a quick inspection shows 387 graded bees and 2613 ungraded
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:59 am
by Jonathan Bryant
Jonathan Rogers wrote: ↑Thu Jul 26, 2018 1:39 pm
Looks like my really big crash is yet to come ....
I avoided this fate by playing no games at all. For the first tine since 1999 I have no grade.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:03 pm
by Andy Stoker
Ah - but the first time since 1977, I do have. No surprise, I seem to be rather worse than I was at age 23
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 2:50 pm
by Gavin Hughes
i got my grade down as low as possible so i could turn professional.
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 3:24 pm
by David Robertson
Andy Stoker wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:03 pm
I seem to be rather worse than I was at age 23
You probably aren't in fact. It's all still there, or mostly; it just needs 'waking up'. Practice may not be sufficient on its own - you'll need to get back studying the game. But, in chess at least, performance decline is a slow process
ceteris paribus. What's laid down early, sticks around until deep into old age. Motivation may decline faster though
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:00 pm
by Gavin Hughes
I dont really get chess or what u said. I can only take ur word on it
Re: Isn't this the time ...
Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2018 10:04 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
"This is a fantastic achievement. Remarkable. And at your age too. Congratulations! "
Thanks - of course there is the opportunity to lose all the points soon!