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The resource that you seek is: Chess Columns A List written by Ken Whyld. It went through various publishers and editions for several decades. The latest I know of is by Publishing House Moravian Chess, Olomouc, 2002, ISBN-80-7189-431-1. You are welcome to borrow it, if you like.

In tournaments operated by Richmond Juniors, or by Richmond Rapidplays, we have the following regulation: SPORTING & UNSPORTING BEHAVIOUR Players are required to shake hands before the start of each game and at the finish of each game, as a gesture of sporting behaviour. If a player is unable to sha...

The 11th Menchik Memorial is taking place now until Sunday, a 9 round norm tournament for women at the ILEC at Earl's Court. Moves are broadcast on all the usual platforms and Anna Maja Kazarian is providing a live stream on the ECF's own Youtube channel and on her own twitch channel.

The tournament will be awarding a best game prize. If any eagle-eyed viewer has spotted a great attacking game, a positional masterpiece, a Rubinsteinesque endgame or a delightful swindle, please get in touch.

mleonard wrote: ↑

Sat Aug 15, 2026 1:17 pm

I use a Mac, and Swiss Manager is Windows-only

Swiss Manager works perfectly well on Linux with Wine translation, in our experience at Richmond Juniors. I think you ought to be able to do something similar on Mac OS.

Three subsequent updates, including one to correct a serious error with listings. Also correction of a privacy issue that I had reported to Heinz Herzog a couple of months ago whereby email addresses were being downloaded with SM files.

Judith Polgar to be installed as next President of Hungary.

Seems that one can not acccess this site using a VPN anymore, Cloudflare in overdrive.

As usual, Roger asks and answers questions which are besides the point. The system is mostly used in 9 or more round tournaments with norm possibilities, and whether or not I find the process useful is irrelevant to the original question, as to what the function exists for. I won't respond to furthe...

I'm ashamed to admit that there in a option in Swiss Mangler I've both not used and don't know what its purpose is. This is the "check presence of players" radio button Does it work and what it is supposed to do? Are they any -ve impacts of using it? The option has been there as long as can recall....

John, your views on my proposals?

I would be even more delighted if the ECF Membership and Rating Systems were properly integrated into Swiss Manager instead of the kludge, bodge, gaffer tape, brown paper and parcel string solution that currently exists. ECF Membership details as separate fields in player record, downloaded into SM ...

It would be a useful thing, of course. I would like to be able to check for a) ECF Membership Category = Bronze b) ECF Membership Category = Gold/Platinum/Life c) ECF Membership = none d) ECF Membership No e) ECF Membership Expiry Date Query by ECF Rating Id, or by Family Name, Given Names, suppleme...

For those organisations using the LMS, the back up routine in this scenario is as robust of hoping that independent records exist of the lost results. If this type of problem is likely in the future, I think it would be expedient for match captains to keep a more rigorous history of their matches. ...