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In practice you have to decide roughly how many cheaters you think there are in your population and what false positive/negative rates you’ll accept. Then you calibrate the thresholds in your statistical methods to match. What could possibly go wrong Not a lot. That said, I decided to throw last tw...

Karjakin steals show as Carlsen 'new sexy' name change backfires.

Valuev: See you in round two.
Karpov: I've got three minutes to save my life.

Presumably he could have got around the rule by asking his opponent to take it for him..?

The family of Colin Crouch have donated his chess library to Harrow Chess Club. The collection includes Informant numbers 1-84 which the club would like to pass on to another enthusiast.

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Some decent draughts here...

https://www.facebook.com/drunkenknights/

If you removed Wood Green so as to restore competition, then Drunken Knights has a potentially unfair advantage against Hackney, Cavendish and others, that by strategic nominations and player usage, it can field half a first team when playing as DK2 and a whole first team when playing as DK1. I can...

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/apr/29/colin-crouch That's a nice tribute piece, Nevil. I can recall Colin trying to keep us younger Harrow juniors in order in the early 1970s. Not sure I was attentive enough at the time, but I recall his attempts to pass on his chess knowledge with much affe...

The service for Colin will be held 12:15pm on Tuesday 5th May at West Chapel Breakspear Crematorium Breakspear Road Ruislip Middlesex HA4 7SJ There will be a gathering afterwards from 2:00pm at The White Horse Middle Road Harrow on the Hill Middlesex HA2 0HL To assist with buffet numbers, it would b...

Bill Phillips posted this today on ECF Forum and has given permission for it to be reproduced here... Some personal memories of Colin 1. Colin was a junior member of Harrow Chess Club. In 1971, although I was new to Harrow, I took over the captaincy of the Harrow first team in the London League. I d...

Harrow Chess Club deeply regret to announce that Colin Crouch has passed away.

Colin was 58 years old and a member of the club since 1970.

Further details will follow once available


http://www.harrowchessclub.org.uk

Several years ago I had to reprimand a player for disappearing to the bar during a DK match and ordering a coffee.

Graham Borrowdale wrote:

Nevil Chan wrote:Subject of Brian's team talk before tonight's big match.

http://tinyurl.com/LCL-Div1-2013-14

May we know the subject of the DK pre-match team talk?

Drink, be merry, and watch out for sneaky GM tactics.

Subject of Brian's team talk before tonight's big match.

http://tinyurl.com/LCL-Div1-2013-14