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by Joey Stewart
Wed Dec 20, 2023 12:11 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jumping titles
Replies: 48
Views: 2241

Re: Jumping titles

I think if anyone was that mad they were willing to put years of effort into achieving a title and then not claim it the chances are they wouldn't be good enough to accomplish the task in the first place.
by Joey Stewart
Tue Dec 19, 2023 1:13 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jumping titles
Replies: 48
Views: 2241

Re: Jumping titles

Actually, on the same subject, say an FM going for his IM title had three really good tournaments and got three GM norms instead - could he cash them in for the international title or does he now have to go though the huge slog of gaining a 2500 rating to get a title?
by Joey Stewart
Mon Dec 18, 2023 12:09 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jumping titles
Replies: 48
Views: 2241

Re: Jumping titles

On the plus side it's highly unlikely anyone would ever go that progression route anymore with ratings so broken you are either IM/GM standard and blow through all the competition straight up to the big titles or you are stuck in the quagmire of underrated tournament players for evermore without eve...
by Joey Stewart
Sun Dec 17, 2023 10:29 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Jumping titles
Replies: 48
Views: 2241

Re: Jumping titles

It seems somewhat counterproductive to me to not get the other titles along the way, even if you are confident you'll make it to GM you are still going to have to play a lot of tournaments to get there so why not save yourself a bit of money by using the discount that those lower ranked titles bring...
by Joey Stewart
Sun Dec 17, 2023 12:05 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Magnus Carlsen and Pep Guardiola video
Replies: 5
Views: 679

Re: Magnus Carlsen and Pep Guardiola video

Glory hunter
by Joey Stewart
Sat Dec 16, 2023 7:21 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Is Chess shortening your life?
Replies: 18
Views: 1713

Re: Is Chess shortening your life?

A glance in the obituaries section of the forum would suggest that chess players are actually quite long lived on average - I don't have the link to hand but I'm pretty sure there been some kind of study done somewhere that has scientifically proven that the brain activity used in a long session of ...
by Joey Stewart
Sat Dec 16, 2023 1:36 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bring a friend day
Replies: 18
Views: 1858

Re: Bring a friend day

Forums are a delicate ecosystem to balance, you need so many of the right elements for them to thrive and not die. Very large forums like chess.com or lichess are absolute trash because most people are not there to create any sort of debate, or even if they have good intentions are simply not able t...
by Joey Stewart
Thu Dec 14, 2023 12:15 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bring a friend day
Replies: 18
Views: 1858

Re: Bring a friend day

Red hot pawn, that's a blast from the past, I used to run a team in their leagues (The Knights Who Say Ni !) years ago but I didn't think the site was even open anymore.
by Joey Stewart
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:41 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Magnus Carlsen and Pep Guardiola video
Replies: 5
Views: 679

Re: Magnus Carlsen and Pep Guardiola video

It is interesting how much more Magnus seems to love football then chess these days, he was the most animated and excited I've ever seen him in an interview here (although i guess if you were a football fan and got to meet up with one of the greatest managers of all time it would probably be a big d...
by Joey Stewart
Thu Dec 14, 2023 9:32 am
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bring a friend day
Replies: 18
Views: 1858

Re: Bring a friend day

When I saw the topic I thought it might be about recruiting more chess players to clubs - but no, just to the forum. Just need to find someone with enough spare time to hit social media to draw in the crowds... I could do that myself if I just wanted a rent a crowd, but I was thinking more that if ...
by Joey Stewart
Tue Dec 12, 2023 9:05 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Bring a friend day
Replies: 18
Views: 1858

Bring a friend day

I was thinking to myself how we have lost many good members of the forum this last year or so, some by an untimely end and others through their own behaviour. What is clear, however is that numbers are dwindling and there will eventually come a day when there aren't even enough of us left to post ea...
by Joey Stewart
Sun Dec 10, 2023 2:06 am
Forum: International News
Topic: 2023 London Chess Classic
Replies: 7
Views: 1267

Re: 2023 London Chess Classic

Shreyas royal is one of several UK IMs who should already be a GM if it were not utter failure of the fide rating system - proving today beyond all doubt that 2600-2700s in their little protected bubble are actually very vulnerable to players below them
by Joey Stewart
Thu Dec 07, 2023 11:30 am
Forum: Deaths & Obituaries
Topic: Dave Pardoe RIP
Replies: 10
Views: 1629

Re: Dave Pardoe RIP

Shame to hear about Dave, one of the best members of the forum, numbers are becoming more and more sparse around here now...
by Joey Stewart
Mon Dec 04, 2023 5:42 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Major investment to transform future of English chess announced
Replies: 134
Views: 12379

Re: Major investment to transform future of English chess announced

Or is the idea that an individual brings a set and sits there waiting to tempt some passing stranger. What could possibly go wrong? I think it is like a lot of similarly hare brained schemes involving chess- the "ideas man" thinks how fun and erudite it looks to have people playing chess in a park,...
by Joey Stewart
Sat Dec 02, 2023 4:02 pm
Forum: General Chat
Topic: Chess and puzzles
Replies: 10
Views: 868

Re: Chess and puzzles

So I got the job. Nomenclature is about pattern recognition and using rules to create systematic names for chemicals, and then extending the rules, when somebody makes a chemical that doesn't obey the normal rules. In fact I probably became much better at naming chemicals than I was at chess. It st...