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06-03-2015, 09:41 PM
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!
06-03-2015, 10:49 PM
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.
06-03-2015, 11:56 PM
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?
07-03-2015, 12:52 AM
'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
09-03-2015, 08:14 PM
Well done Andy, for sneaking "open secret" right past George's scrutiny!
Cheers Jim
12-03-2015, 05:23 PM
George refers to the new regulation that was hastily added after practically every federation emailed the FIDE offices in disgust
"How sad to see, what used to be, a model of decorum and tranquility become like any other sport, a battleground for rival ideologies to slug it out with glee"
19-03-2015, 01:09 PM
andyburnett Wrote:I'm glad somebody noticed, Jim! I missed "open secret" too Andy. Perhaps because its such a logical oxymoron |
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