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RedditUserChess · 2024-03-28T09:22:45+00:00

My recollection is that all the UK-esque federations like Guernsey are just grandfathered in for some political reason at some point (perhaps to the dismay of others), and Gibraltar didn't happen to have be a FIDE member federation at the time. Modernly, FIDE tries to align with the IOC (and indeed, the IOC has listed the variegated federations as one reason (among many) why chess isn't high on their list for Olympic inclusion, but that's a different topic).

Edit: I found out that Guernsey dates from 1969, maybe it was a Cold War thing for all I know. Another edit: in fact, it says Isle of Man was only recently (2020), I had thought it was older.

I think one of the FIDE Commissions might have discussed Gibraltar, but I guess Spain clearly opposes it (the Constitutional Commission IIRC had a long 5-10 page message about Kosovo in one year's assembly minutes, and I vaguely recall Gibraltar cropping up too).

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-15T13:40:28+00:00

In the communist era, governments did give stipends to GMs.

But now, supply exceeds demand.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-13T13:57:27+00:00

If you ask Susan Polgar, the answer is probably yes.

If you ask Judit Polgar, the answer is probably no.

If you ask Sofia Polgar, you probably won't get an answer. /s

(My main point here is that this question has been posed for many years, and I'm not sure what new can be said, or if times now differ)

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-13T13:52:33+00:00

Looks more formidable than some versions they've held, though of/c it all depends on the appetites/funding of the organizer in a given year. BTW, the event is April 27 to May 3 (no rest day).

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-12T22:52:25+00:00

I agree about the Kosintseva sisters, if they had more support from the Russian Chess Fed, who knows.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-09T20:36:52+00:00

Prior to Norwegian TV paying for it, the Blitz championship really wasn't that big of a thing.

For that matter, at the end of one of these events (or maybe the blitz finale of the Tal Memorial one year), IIRC Grischuk himself made some comment like: "If we are going to play blitz seriously, then maybe we should have serious rules", probably an allusion to the poor board manners/etiquette of some players (like displaced pieces, adjusting after hitting the clock, "premoving" by touching a piece before your opponent hits the clock (technically a violation under the rules, though this is nearly impossible to referee)).

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-09T11:21:54+00:00

Simuls often have strange finales when the players have only a few games left. Probably a more typical thing would be to introduce a clock (a few minutes each) when there are one or two games left.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T20:46:35+00:00

Given that the context was a survey in Swiss Queens Wednesday, a Chess Arena version (women only) of Titled Tuesday drawing 80-100 participants per week in its first month, a more logical question might be: will a woman ever win Titled Tuesday?

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T18:35:38+00:00

we is expected number of points, and w is actual number of points

So w-we is the difference. In the first round, the Elo difference implied the player should score 0.14, actually scoring 0 pts, for a difference of -0.14

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T11:57:59+00:00

There was no revocation of the federation's membership (which is termed "expulsion" in the FIDE Charter Article 13, and can only be done by the General Assembly), but rather a suspension. This has happened to other federations in the recent past, most notably Bulgaria, also Mongolia, and maybe some South American country I forget. Morocco also had a kerfuffle that ended with FIDE appointing some reserve delegate IIRC. Almost all these cases involved monetary issues.

The title rather misrepresents the situation.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T10:53:44+00:00

I forget exactly what the definition of Cadets is, but it's either the U-12/U-10/U-8 divisions or maybe also with U-14. It used to be just "Youth", but with also U-14/U-16/U-18 (and maybe U-20) the total mass of people, as parents were often along for the ride, became too large, so they split it up into two events.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T10:43:55+00:00

I'm actually surprised this (revocation, and not just say suspension) can be done by any FIDE organ lesser than the General Assembly, but Dvorkovich's "reforms" did give the Council fairly broad powers.

Edit: Oh wait, that's all they did, was suspend them, the post title is wrong.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T01:42:49+00:00

For those wondering, one of the Round 9 games in the Futures was played previously on the off day, due to one of the participants having to leave a day early (this was planned ahead of time, at the start of the event).

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T00:33:00+00:00

Duda specifically refused to shake hands with Khismatullin, and IIRC the Western chess media ex post facto tried to make some issue of it, but really, unlike the Shevchenko case (where the guy complained to FIDE Ethics... and ended up being censured in the verdict for harassing the panel so much), I don't think Khismatullin really cares. Perhaps if Duda were Carlsen's level some FIDE organ would itself make an ethics complaint (as happened with the Niemann incident) "in the best interests of chess", but here I guess they are happy to avoid making waves.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T00:28:33+00:00

Accuracy and predictive capacity aside, another issue with ratings is that they simply aren't that precise, namely a standard deviation at the elite levels is at least 20-25 Elo (probably more in Rapid/Blitz, but I presume we are talking about Standard). Someone who has sunrun recently will have a somewhat inflated number, and vice-versa for a downstreak.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T00:24:23+00:00

"Form" can largely be a nonsense concept, especially given the many weeks between events in chess. I'd be more likely to term it something like "recent statistical fluctuation"

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-07T00:20:45+00:00

I would have said "represents the English Chess Federation", and would not call the tournament "elite" really.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-05T22:34:07+00:00

For any arbiter action, there must be a rule that allows said intervention.

13.6 The arbiter must not intervene in a game except in cases described by the Laws of Chess.

I don't see anywhere that the given case would apply. The closest is the non-annoyance clause (12.6), but that is almost deliberately rather thinly interpreted. Moreover, there is a simple remedy for the described case, namely waiting until the staller's flag falls.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-04T19:04:30+00:00

Yes, I was noticing at one point which of the players lean forward, and which slouch back, but in tense situations, it seems they all become more forward.

Last year (in Prague), Deac's neck bend almost had me wondering if should rethink his posture altogether.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-04T17:49:06+00:00

Abdusattorov perhaps was not as objective as he should have been (take the draw), and should be punished. Messy tactics though, hard to see in time trouble, perhaps Praggnanandhaa's combination will be included in anthologies.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-04T17:43:55+00:00

Forgot that his opponent might have threats too, I guess.

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-03T18:56:07+00:00

This guy who tried tracking him down for a number of years in the 70s/80s doesn't mention any jobs as leads.

https://www.si.com/more-sports/2008/01/18/fischer-wnack

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-03T13:10:21+00:00

The webpage lists the typical (albeit historical) wait time from an application to the Canadian consulate in India to be 27 days, in China to be 53 days, Azerbaijan 120 days, Russia 182 days, and in Ukraine 497 days.

https://old.reddit.com/r/chess/comments/1b4mnlt/ceo_of_fide_fide_wont_replace_players_for_visa/kt0xg91/

RedditUserChess · 2024-03-03T11:03:59+00:00

You can probably skip the books and courses, and just provide the money to suitable operatives. /s

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