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Re: Latest FIDE announcement - HelenMilligan - 06-03-2015
FIDE may 'require' a personal email address, but our view is that our federation is a member of FIDE and the players are not. FIDE should address the NZCF Council or NZL delegate/secretary. If players sign themselves up for the Online Arena, then that's their business. Otherwise, NZCF handles the spam!
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - Phil Thomas - 06-03-2015
Suspect you're correct George in your analysis of FIDE's words and FIDE's real intentions. But I do like Helen's NZ solution. It is hard to see FIDE chasing people who claim not to have an e mail but actually do have one.
Not really my specialist subject but isn't "storm in a tea cup" an idiom rather than an oxymoron?
While "most unique" is rather harder to classify I suggest that it is hyperbole.
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - George Murphy - 06-03-2015
Idiom or oxymoron? Depends on which dictionary is used, I suppose.
“Most unique”, I’m afraid, reflects a hangover from my Latin studies whereby “unique” cannot be modified.
Anyway, it’s all small beer, don’t you think?
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - andyburnett - 07-03-2015
'Storm in a teacup' isn't an oxymoron by any definition I know of (it's an idiom, as Phil says), but it's an open secret that 'small beer' almost certainly is one in certain Scottish chess circles
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - George Murphy - 07-03-2015
Depends who's buying, eh?
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - Jim Johnston - 09-03-2015
Well done Andy, for sneaking "open secret" right past George's scrutiny!
Cheers
Jim
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - andyburnett - 10-03-2015
I'm glad somebody noticed, Jim!
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - Andy Howie - 12-03-2015
George refers to the new regulation that was hastily added after practically every federation emailed the FIDE offices in disgust
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - Phil Thomas - 19-03-2015
andyburnett Wrote:I'm glad somebody noticed, Jim!
I missed "open secret" too Andy.
Perhaps because its such a logical oxymoron
Re: Latest FIDE announcement - William Hulme - 19-03-2015
You guys are seriously funny =))