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 Our Club Charter!After consulting with Gameknot I can now release the following Charter together with Gameknot's comments on it as follows:- Message from GameKnot customer support: Hello, jstevens1, We have read your message and it appears to be acceptable. Please note however that GameKnot website rules always supersede any and all internal club rules, and it is the club founder/moderators' duties to ensure that the rules are followed in the club. Please refer to the "Rules and Policies" link located at the bottom of all GameKnot pages for the detailed description of what's unacceptable on GameKnot. Thank you for checking with us. Thank you for choosing GameKnot as your premier chess battlefield! Best regards, GameKnot.com In response to your inquiry submitted on 24-Dec-12, 16:36 Subject: Are you happy with my Club Charter - more detail to come! Hi - I am jstevens1 and I am a founder of a new Club called Walking the Walk and Learning to Run which I hope will encourage lower rated players to develop and to give some shock results to the much higher rated Experts - GMs. I would like to post the aims of my Club onto the Forum but I would like you to check this statement which I am considering placing on the Club Forum first to see if it is OK. Club Charter 1. Every member of my club is important and forms a vital, integral role to my Club. 2. Every member will be welcomed by me, either by a personal pm, or if there are several members joining on the same day or within a few days of each other, on the Welcome Forum. 3. I read the posts on my club and even though I may not comment on them immediately, every post is much appreciated by me. 4. With regards to resignation. Every player has a right to choose whether or not to resign in a lost position or play it out to mate. It is up to the player concerned to decide whether the position is indeed lost and to throw what counter-play he or she has at his/her opponent. If the loser's position is devoid of counter-play and the loser is well behind on material, the player does have the option and the right to resign on the grounds of ruinous loss of material. Similarly, if your opponent has a forced mate, you have the right to resign at any point, on the grounds of Unavoidable Mate. I feel it is always helpful to explain in your resignation notes on what grounds you are resigning on and why you think you are going to be checkmated/lose copious amounts of material in the next few moves if it isn't obvious. It will protect you from allegations of rating manipulation should your calculations be found to be erroneous during post-match analysis with your opponent, on request of Gameknot Analysis, or after posting an annotation. Please bear in mind that our members may have a heavy games workload and may prefer to draw a line under the hopeless position and concentrate on their remaining games to ensure they give those their best shot, If anybody has resigned prematurely the player concerned deserves our support and encouragement because, believe you me, it is a horrid feeling to find that you could have saved your position. What the loser must tell himself/herself is that they made the decision they felt was right for them at the time and to the best of their knowledge at the time. 5. That every Walker on my Club will have a Runner (Mentor) to go to for on and off the board practical and emotional support and for those who are waiting for a Welcome MT or to be allocated a Mentor, I will keep them well informed. 6. Voting games and Game of the Month Threads are very good ideas but for the time being I will modify the latter idea and have a Game of the Tournament as this Club is mainly structured by mini-tournaments for the foreseeable future. Voting games will be ideal for those Walkers/Runners on a Welcome MT Waiting List or a Mentor Group Allocation Waiting List. It may also be a good idea to take part in any chess puzzles that are going. These can arise from annotations or on the main Gameknot thread. If you have successfully solved a difficult puzzle on Gameknot then please feel free to air it in the Puzzle section started by last-archimedian. 7. It is up to the Mentor in each Mentor Group to decide whether games should be rated/unrated or what time controls to set and what openings to discuss or whether there should be a 5 player mini-tournament in the Mentor Groups. I notice that some of the Mentors have put their ideas up on the Club Forum. Please read these posts very carefully. 8. Every player will be given the chance to play against an Expert (rated over 2000) or a Master (rated over 2200). You may get a fearful trouncing at first, i.e. lose copious amounts of material or cop Old Matey early doors, but with patience and experience, much later down the line, you could end up giving that opponent a right run for his/her money. 9. If a Walker either Wins or Draws against an Expert/Master then his/her achievement will be recorded on the It Can Be Done Thread. Any Walker who beats a Master (not impossible!) will be called a Master Blaster! 10. Any Walker whose rating hits 2000 or above will automatically become a Runner and will be awarded Moderator status as soon as I become aware of it. 11. Any Walker can challenge a Runner who is not their mentor, however, the Walker must bear in mind that the Runner may have a really high workload, on and off the board and may have to wait to challenge this player. 12. I am pulling all the stops out to get a Grandmaster or International Master in my Club as it may be every player's dream to simply challenge them, whatever the end result. I just hope that either Drhpatron or Elyheim our 2300+ players will get on a roll and give us some home-grown talent if they should pass 2400! 13. If games are annotated and a player makes an error, it may be helpful for the annotator to perhaps explain the reasoning behind the blunder because the consequences of the blunder may not immediately become apparent until a few moves down the line or the loser may not have analysed the variations deeply enough to prevent ruinous loss of material/unavoidable mate. Criticism must be constructive at all times. 14. If any member of my Club has placed a fellow member on his/her Ignore List or is considering doing so, could that member please inform their mentor or myself of this issue. Although, according to Gameknot Rules, a player who has been ignored must not try to get around the Ignore list by way of buddies/forums, it is essential that we are aware of it. We may be able to mediate and enable the players concerned to carry on in a harmonious manner before such an issue has arisen. If not, if there is an irretrievable fall-out between fellow mentor group members, we can arrange group mentor transfers asap. 15. Anyhow, I hope all Club Members have a very Merry Xmas and wish them all the best for a happy and prosperous New Year on and off the chess board! Kind regards Joanne |
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Challenging a Runner/Expert/Master I would like to add/suggest just one more detail to Joanne's paragraph 11, a detail that could be fun for all of us, and that also brings in a detail from the earlier Club headed by easy19 (aka Freddy). 11b. A Walker is a Walker only when she/he Walks. Prior to that, and after joining this Club, she/he is merely - a member. The next step for the member is to announce herself/himself on the forum, i.e. start Talking about her/his great skills in the game of chess and thereby challenge any Runner/Expert/Master to a game. This challenge (=the Talking) can be directed towards a single Runner/Expert/Master, or to all of them collectively. In the spirit of this Club it would not be appropriate for a Runner/Expert/Master challenged in this way to decline, work load or not, because this is Serious! This Talker-becomes-Walker versus Runner/Expert/Master game is one where, as a rule, the former plays the white pieces and is also obliged to annotate the game on the forum. According to Rule 11b it is only this way a mere member can become a Walker! In my view, it would be nice (and funny, too) if this difference were to be noted in the membership list, i.e. the difference between "member only" and "walker" |
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Here Here!! |
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pennsylvaniadan 28-Dec-12, 09:49 |
I just enjoy playing chess against really good players (Runners) and learning from them. Is this possible? I guess I really don't aspire to be a "Walker" but if any "Runner" wants to show me their chess skill, feel free to offer me a game. If I do get lucky and procure a draw, I promise not to record it in writing and tell everyone about it.----lol |
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@penn I should have said that the "talking the talk" concept is of course not the obligatory or only way to approach the "Runners" for a game. Neither is the annotation. It is only a humorous way that was introduced in the former Club and seemed to work nicely there |
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Amendment to Paragraph 14 I feel it is necessary to add something to Paragraph 14 to read as follows:- 14. If any member of my Club has placed a fellow member on his/her Ignore List or has left the Club or is considering leaving the Club or putting a fellow member on his/her Ignore List, could that member please inform their mentor or myself of this issue. Although, according to Gameknot Rules, a player who has been ignored must not try to get around the Ignore list by way of buddies/forums, it is essential that we are aware of it. We may be able to mediate and enable the players concerned to carry on in a harmonious manner before such an issue has arisen. If not, if there is an irretrievable fall-out between fellow mentor group members, we can arrange group mentor transfers asap. Kind regards Joanne |
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For the ones who forgot Say it is a bit of simple version of the club charter. gameknot.com |
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@easy19 |
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Sounds Harsh but i consider it a necessary evil But i also have a idea for the old club, i have to think it over first but i think people will like it. Ill keep you all posted. |
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woutstra 02-May-13, 19:05 |
in your second post are you saying people supposed to brag before they can be called walkers? |
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@woustra |
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woutstra 04-May-13, 10:20 |
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