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JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:32 pm

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Wed Oct 28, 2020 4:22 pm

The typical software disregards any moves which have been played before (theory)

OK, but what is meant by (theory) here

true, this should read (="theory") - all that has gone before in practice

Adam

I have been made aware of (at least) some of the criteria used to "decide" if a game has been played with external assistance. One of those which struck me was the opening move cut-off is considered to be move 8. i.e. moves 1-8 are disregarded and moves 9 onwards are considered to be ripe for analy...

I see that one of the players in the 4NCL Online Autumn Congress who reached 4/4 is now shown on chess-results with 0/4 and not paired in the remaining rounds. His games are not on lichess when you look through his opponent's results for them, so I assume his lichess account has been closed. They h...

David Sedgwick wrote: ↑

Mon Oct 19, 2020 3:28 pm

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Sun Oct 18, 2020 11:36 am

Starting this Wednesday!

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/london-c ... ess-league

Will the London Chess League Online be ECF Online Rated?

Not on this occasion, no.

From Saturdays Times Review A six part series starts on Netflix on Friday. It is adapted from Walter Trevis's 1983 novel The Queens Gambit "About a female chess prodigy who takes on the might of the Soviet Union while struggling with her own mental health and alcohol addiction " Ben Graff and I wil...

Starting this Wednesday!

https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/london-c ... ess-league

David Cordover did a couple of webinars on the topic of Fair Play yesterday, and the link to the Youtube video and the Facebook video are below (2hrs) https://youtu.be/4utD1bOJs14 https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=373235263720314 Useful Links https://tornelo.tawk.help/article/interpreting-a-fair-pla...

https://anchor.fm/thechesscircuit In this episode my guest is Tom Quilter, who is quite well known as a player on the tournament circuit and is also the creator of a great website for kids preparing for exams called Pinpoint Learning. He is also a great advocate for Chess960 (otherwise known as Fisc...

Do Lichess explain allegations and results of cheating. I am interested in domestic chess on-line as hoping to set up a league. Lichess, chessdotcom, chesskid, icc, do not. The platform Tornelo does make it possible for arbiters to monitor fair play round by round and explain the results to players.

I too have doublers and even triplers. Some I buy on purpose. The Burgess books, the Mammoth Book of Chess and Mammoth book of Greatest games I often see for 50p or in 4 for a £1.00 shops. I pass them onto the kids. The first one is very good, the second also. Leonard's Guardian book is also anothe...

I like this lad Rocco's play even more on further investigation. His win against GM Fernandez at Torquay 2019 was well-earned https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1968073 and in the same British championship he won a 15-mover with a nice tactic. https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gi...

In my events on Tornelo we have all the players on zoom. This means that as long as you can see the board, that players can use a real chess set to play the game by repeating the moves from the screen, but this only works in a standard game!

If anyone would like to review this novel for my newsletter, I would be really happy to publish it! adamraoof@gmail.com

In the first place, participation in a gathering alone seems something of a contradiction in terms. But I suppose it would at least cover someone who travels to a tournament alone and just plays his or her games without speaking to anyone. A suggestion made to me is that the "unit"" of gathering is...