As you
almost certainly know, the English Chess Federation (ECF) have been in the spotlight recently, due to a sudden rash of resignations from their board. What you might not know - and I certainly didn't, until I found out by accident after reading news of the resignations - is that the ECF also runs a
Forum, and a Forum with a lot of potential too, it seems to me:
- The forum is not censoriously moderated - even controversial posts, critical of the ECF, are allowed - and the moderators are responsive to suggestions from the Forum too
- Real names are the norm, an excellent policy which cuts down trolls, especially because those whom loiter behind pseudonyms will always carry less weight in their posts
- Already some interesting people are posting, including several well-known titled players and some (although not all ECF) officials
- There is a separate forum for ECF Matters and another for General Chat, so the heated, topical stuff can be separated out from everything else chess players like to talk about
A smattering of sample posts: IM Andrew Martin's
argument that games adjourned or adjudicated should not be submitted for grading; in the ECF Matters forum, the thread called
ECF Matters; a humdinger of a dispute between Charles W. Wood and John Saunders that starts out of the blue
here; and on the lighter side,
When is it bad manners to play silly openings? But there's much more besides. The
Index is here, where you'll also find a button to register yourself to post. The only downside I can think of is that there is no facility to post chess diagrams, and there is no play-through board available with which to post games, although one is promised for the future.
What do you think?
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