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Here’s Daniel Naroditsky’s lengthy ramble on the general situation; https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/1kyAM8d2XSN0WHyJiLqGItpuFc6G-cqmtzzbXnuTKHtU/mobilebasic# Also, just out of interest, there’s a list of the most heavily watched Twitch Chess Streamers in April 2021; https://www.twitchmetrics....

Hi John, Yes I thought the £10,000 event was OTB. As I said I could not read all the Times article and the top thread when I posted was advertising a junior OTB event. So typical Chandler thinking 2+2 =5. A lad on Facebook posted today in the British Chess News: "There're programs which are designe...

That might be the reason his account got flagged! It’s an interesting question of how much even a promising junior can improve in 10 months? February 2020 player X was a slightly out of form 170-ish level in final over the board comps. Come December they're playing at IM level at the British Online...

[Okay, it’s not chess, but how often do well trained mid-teen juniors bolt on 400-500 points of performance strength in 10 months? (Not to mention without being able to play any over the board chess.) I think its also worth noting that improvements are logarithmic in terms of amount of effort - eac...

It’s a shame as he’d scored something like 21.5/23 in the events he’d entered. That might be the reason his account got flagged! It’s an interesting question of how much even a promising junior can improve in 10 months? February 2020 player X was a slightly out of form 170-ish level in final over t...

...one of the surprise break-through performers at the British Online Championship earned the red 'This account has violated the Lichess Terms of Service' marker. That was subsequent to his "break-through" performance and on the basis of his performance on a different event. It was on Chess.com But...

...one of the surprise break-through performers at the British Online Championship earned the red 'This account has violated the Lichess Terms of Service' marker.

"Having been in front of plenty of Australian magistrates, I wouldn’t want to be on the prosecution end when the defence start tendering medical evidence regarding eye sight and outline there was no way for the player to be part of the internal processes." Quite. When I play online chess, I'm looki...

It just means more likely than not. So would the jurisdiction for a civil case be Australia as Tornelo is an Australian chess platform? You’d want to name both FIDE and Tornelo jointly in any counter-actions, as David Cordover’s evidence would torpedo FIDE’s position. Having been in front of plenty ...

One question that seems unanswered is how well vaccines protect people from developing long covid. On Sky News today it reported there are now over a million people in the UK suffering from long term effects impacting on their daily lives. https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-1-1-million-in-the-uk-ha...

I note Ali Mortazavi has tweeted yesterday about cheating in chess, if anyone is interested. Yes, shows no fear and openly names the player who allegedly cheated against him in the Bunratty Online Blitz. Ali wonders what’s the point if they aren’t real consequences for cheating? He suggests that th...

I note Ali Mortazavi has tweeted yesterday about cheating in chess, if anyone is interested. Yes, shows no fear and openly names the player who allegedly cheated against him in the Bunratty Online Blitz. Ali wonders what’s the point if they aren’t real consequences for cheating? He suggests that th...

I'm aware it's played on Tornelo, so the organisers are presumably the ones that have sanctioned the ban? This is the Fair Play Panel that approved the sanction Tomasz Delega (Chief Arbiter) Bojana Bejatovic (FIDE Fair Play Commission) Aleksadar Colovic (Grandmaster) David Cordover (Tornelo) David ...

However when, still more recently, I attempted to get together a petition to propose to FIDE that algorithms such as those used by Lichess and Chess.com [and, indeed, Ken Regan's methods] be subjected to rigorous independent audit, almost all those contacted elected to sit on their hands. An audit ...

I received a call about my second jab of the Pfizer vaccine today. It will take place Friday 26 March. I felt no effect from the first dose. Hasting is receiving a little support from FIDE. It is more complex than an British only event. David Robertson presumably would advise not holding it this ye...