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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!
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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.
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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?
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Depends who's buying, eh?
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Well done Andy, for sneaking "open secret" right past George's scrutiny!
Cheers
Jim
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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"
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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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You guys are seriously funny =))