Hello Isaac,

We want to thank you and other admins for inviting us to the League and putting all together. We understand that you are doing a great job keeping the NSPCL run. We really appreciate the opportunity of enjoying of the team chess competition.

As you know, we have not substituted any players in our team Four Knights till now. And it seems to us weird that some teams have already changed their squad many times. We can see that every time players become objectively stronger (even though they have a lower rapid rating then previous). It is logical to ask: Why has it happened that before the decisive matches teams are available to strengthen their squad? We feel that it is unfair.

That led us to contact you right now: we were surprised to see a replacement that happened in the team Chess GP, which is our rival in the current round. To replace the player @Tranzoo came a chess player @attackchesskid, which is objectively much stronger - the rating in the blitz is almost 500 points higher than the previous player. This practically leaves us no chance to win this round. But also we want to draw your attention to the following: it is possible that @attackchesskid was manipulating the rating in rapid, lowering its rating. The only thing is that he lost 62 games and won only 26, is already suspicious. When we look at some of his games in rapid (in reverse order of chronology):

1) https://www.chess.com/live/game/2004694589 - surrendered in an equal position on the 16th move.

2) https://www.chess.com/live/game/2004688125 - gave away the queen

3) https://www.chess.com/live/game/1878776567 - surrendered on the 3rd move for no reason.

The list can be continued. We do not know whether this is a conscious manipulation or just accident. At least, it looks very weird. And we expect that, playing in the League and feeling responsibility for the result, he will show his true skills, which is evaluated in his blitz rating (1600). Before it they made substitution of @Ranappriyan11 (Blitz rating 1335) for @Lllionking (Blitz rating 1955).

First of all we want to understand the attitude of the organizers of the League to the problems stated here.

We understand that is was made according to the rules of the League and it is difficult to change, but then we have other question can we make two substitutions with the same quality of players as our opponents?

Especially consider the facts that @Spindr8, for example, needs to submit his thesis on the next week, chess and @AlexChrome is busy with his work as you saw he could not arrange games on the two last weeks.

Could you explain us, because from the rule book it is not completely clear can each player find substitution for himself or it is admins who choose the player for the substitution.

Best regards

Team Four Knights

Four Knights Team

Super Admins