English Chess Forum

The new ECF Coaching web site may be found at

http://www.ecfcoaching.org.uk/

and includes the definitive list of accredited coaches plus Centres of Excellence plus much more.

I manage this site under the direction of IM Andrew Martin, Manager of Coaching.

Feedback is welcome!

John

Interested in the definitive list....

I remember gaining a regional coach qualification (at a weekend event with John Littlewood) several years ago...is this still valid?? I had a badge and everything..

Could you let me know how to get my name on the 'official' list again?

Regards,

Paul D.

Paul,
To become listed you need to contact IM Andrew Martin at

[email protected]

and he will then request me to add to the list.

Regards, John

I am very much interested in learning how to coach juniors when I become inelligible for junior tournaments as of september 1st 2007 when I am too old to participate anymore. I would love to still be involved in junior chess for many years to come, and I am unsure of who to talk to about this. Could you point me in the right direction? Thank You

Contact Andrew, ECF Manager of Coaching as per a previous post.

John Upham, ECF Coaching Web Manager.

Okay, Thank you

We have updated the list of ECF Accredited coaches to add several new ones and to delist others. Reasons for delisting include :

• Request to be delisted by coach

• Expiry of CRB clearance

• Some other reason!

The list of ECF Centres of Excellence continues to expand....but more will be welcome!

Please apply!

Andrew and John

Nigel,

Probably the first thing I would look at if I was assessing your suitablity to work with children would be the reference to drinking underneath your name.

Andrew

I tried emailing [email protected] regarding ECF accredited chess coaching but the mailbox quota appears to be full.

Is there anyone who can let Andrew know, or if he's reading this just to let you know your mailbox is full!

JamesMurphy wrote:I tried emailing [email protected] regarding ECF accredited chess coaching but the mailbox quota appears to be full.

Is there anyone who can let Andrew know, or if he's reading this just to let you know your mailbox is full!

James,

Indeed, this email alias seems to attract more spam than any other I have known. Most of the spam concerned offers to have something enlarged either on a temporary or permanent basis!

In the mean while please use [email protected] which should reach Andrew.

Within reason I am prepared to allow people to have email addresses through here to relay onto other addresses if they prefer not to quote their real email address on the forum - so for example "[email protected]" relayed to somewhere else

PM me if so...

On this matter of email addresses, aliases, mailboxes full...

I've noticed that the new-style online ECF Calendar has reverted to 'mailto' links for email addresses after previously using javascript to provide a modicum of spam-proofing. This is a retrograde step. Organisers whose email addresses appear on the ECF website can expect to receive a lot more spam as a result. And people who place straight email addresses on this forum (i.e. [email protected] rather than a circumvention such as fred (at) aol dot com) presumably run the same risk. Am I wrong? Perhaps someone with more techie knowledge than me can comment.

I suppose we all have to expect some spam. But when using an email alias for a prominent email address which is likely to be published widely, doesn't it make sense to point it to an underlying email address that comes with an efficient spam filter and which doesn't count spam as part of an overall mailbox quota? Googlemail seems to work pretty well, and (of the pay-for email addresses) BT is significantly better than the lamentable Tiscali in this regard. I've noticed that other people's AOL mailboxes seem to fill up more than most. Perhaps techies can also comment on this or quote other free email providers which are suitable for such a task.

John Saunders wrote:I suppose we all have to expect some spam. But when using an email alias for a prominent email address which is likely to be published widely, doesn't it make sense to point it to an underlying email address that comes with an efficient spam filter and which doesn't count spam as part of an overall mailbox quota? Googlemail seems to work pretty well, and (of the pay-for email addresses) BT is significantly better than the lamentable Tiscali in this regard. I've noticed that other people's AOL mailboxes seem to fill up more than most. Perhaps techies can also comment on this or quote other free email providers which are suitable for such a task.

GMail is pretty good both to use and on the spam filtering front, that would be my current recommendation

I do however quote various of my email addresses (I have a lot...) without much care of the effect that may have - but then I process a lot of mail!

The best way is just to have two or three e-mail addresses. I have a hotmail account that tends to collect lots of spam, random mailing lists and Facebook notifications. I can also use that to talk to people who persist with MSN. Since my MSN client links to that email address, if ever I get notification that it's my move on a chess website, or someone has commented on something, I can open that message within my MSN client without even having to go to hotmail to open my e-mails, which is more convenient, and lets me ignore the e-mails of no interest. Then I have a personal e-mail address with googlemail, and I use that for things that need higher security (I don't trust Microsoft...), such as online banking, Amazon, eBay etc. It's also easier to encrypt with a public/private key system. I also use that for communication with friends, and sending files. Basically, Microsoft gets the junk, which is fitting, I think.

Unfortunately , my ECF email address is now also being bombarded by spam.

I will think of a solution and then let you all know.

Best Wishes, Andrew