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I really don't agree that in the Advance system 1. e4 c6 2. d4 d5 3. e5 Bf5 that Nigel Short's 4. Nf3 is only the tenth most important move. It's actually the most popular.

Will those questions be put at the next meeting? The next meeting of the ECF Council is not until April, if that's what you mean by "next meeting". It's supposed to be a Finance meeting and it can be difficult to get other matters discussed. Disputes at Director's Board meetings are usually kept un...

mr lalic has appears to have taken it upon himself to crusade against this needlessly long increment by proving in very real terms just what a terrible idea it is, repeatedly causing the nightmare scenario for the organisers until something gets changed. 10 and 15 second increments are not uncommon...

It might be better if there was a delay rather than an increment. Either the clock doesn't start for the first 30 seconds of each move, or 30 seconds is added but the clock reverts to what you had if you move in under 30 seconds. The USCF were very keen on this method. For that reason many brands o...

It would be difficult I imagine for FIDE to craft a Law specifically forbidding such conduct, but I wouldn't be unhappy to see them try. If you could program the clock, switching off increments at a high number of moves would put the game back in the hands of the arbiter by virtue of being able to ...

Each pgn4web board has its pgn sourced as a text string (rather than from a single games database) so I can't see that there's a neat shortcut to get all the games in one go. Clicking the square d8 is supposed to give the pgn of all the games, but it's only doing the same as clicking c8, namely the...

Ian Thompson wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 24, 2023 5:01 pm

Assuming you're using a Windows PC, put all the pgn files in one folder, open a command prompt, go to that folder and run

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copy *.pgn all-games.pgn

That's using the old MSDOS method. The problem will remain in creating several hundred pgn files from the website, one for each game.

The Kidlington Congress has an archive of games played in recent years For example https://kidlingtonchess.org.uk/games-2023/ These use the pgn4web software to display the games. If you click on c8, you get the pgn source for each individual game. For example [Event "44th KIDLINGTON CHESS TOURNAMENT...

The MCF floated the idea of lowest average rated team wins for draws in cup matches, that didn't get support Berkshire runs its cup competition on a handicap basis using total ratings of the six board teams. This has the side effect that tied matches go to the lower rated team. The rating scales ar...

jholyhead wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 21, 2023 5:42 pm

The Division 1 captains select teams based solely on rating - I would be the 10th reserve or so for our B team based on that system.

That's where you need to lobby for a change in attitude. It doesn't have to be any bigger a change than selecting on the higher of standard and rapidplay rating.

And in case you haven't noticed, which you could say also holds true for the vast majority of the chess playing public It doesn't though. To faciliate cheating you need to communicate moves to an engine and get the feedback. The communication part and delivery of moves and assesment is readily avai...

Joey Stewart wrote: ↑

Sun Nov 19, 2023 7:54 pm

1.e4 c6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5

I've won two games against this in a very cheap manner.

You continue 4. Nf3 Bg4 5. dxc5 e6 6. c3 and now 6. .. Bxc5 is a serious mistake because of 7. Qa4 check. Other move orders are possible.

By contrast to the previous weekend of "Knights", which saw a lot of 3-3 and 3.5-2.5 results, the "Bishops" section saw no drawn matches and decisive results by at least 4-2 in most matches The Manchester Woodpushers team lead with two wins and 9 game points, closely followed by Oxford 2 on 8.5 with...

Isn't the obvious solution not to play any games for a season ... then your existing rating will be cancelled? Another solution not requiring giving up a form of chess would be to lobby for a change of rules or attitude among local league and club organisers so that he can be selected for teams reg...

Generally, premature matches between top teams seem to have been more common back then Was it a deliberate pairing policy that for each weekend the top half would face one of their own and one of those they were expected to beat? It took a while for the tradition of invited guest stars at the final...