Had a lot of fun this week heading down the Championships, which have been played at Glasgow Academy, in Kelvinbridge.
I played the morning lightning tourney, yesterday, on the sensory boards (!) and got 3/6, although narrowly seemed to have missed getting the Grading prize
There are some games of this on the net, but […]
…but only english schools it seems. Still, an interesting scheme to provide chess sets for free to all schools who apply. They look slightly ugly but are intriguingly meant to be near indestructible sets made from some form of durable plastic.
David Bronstein
died this week . Basically a one-time unofficial world
champion (see his postwar match with Botvinnik) I was lucky enough to
be introduced to his play by the gift of a book, Sorceror’s Apprentice,
one of the best chess books out there, 200 open games is great for e4 players and for the witty analysis and ideas(much […]
Author of the excellent book, Chess for Tigers, Simon Webb was killed by his son last week. Details are unclear still; Simon Webb had been living in Sweden for some time with his family. The article is pretty grim reading.
Simon Webb was a former pupil of my grandpa who gave me a signed copy of […]
PWan
The Yahoo video search is something else, seems better than the recently announced Google one. Try searching for those ole chessnuts, Chic, chess, chests etc
Not that you’d know from reading the SPORTS sections of the UK newspapers, but both Short and Adams have been doing rather well in the strongest Chess tournament for a while, with both Kramnik, J Polgar and Anand taking part. Short got off to a good start but is now just level with others such […]
I have been doing some double checking on the notion of triple checking. I found this fascinating article on chess cafe.
“Did anyone ever deliver a triple check during a game of chess? Yes, very
probably, if he was playing in Italy more than 120 years ago. To be honest,
to this day I haven’t been able to […]
..so Kramnik retains his title after Leko seems to have missed a draw in the final game of the WCC (see middlegame …h5 move, not …N x B). (final score 7 - 7).
Dobra Trafika. It is on Koruni between Sumavska and Chodska. The 10 and 16 trams stop almost right in front of it. Stop Sumavska. “beware, café is hidden behind a newspaper and cigar store, very silent place during day, sometimes crowded at nights”
Prague chess cafe! Woo hoo! And Marathon is another one…full of theology […]
the new proposal by that freakin’ nut and megalomaniac, and thus worthy club chess player, Ilyumzhinov, is like a Invisible Cities chapter, distorted to cheese by the Disneyland marketing team.
I would like to go to Dubai to play golf on that hotel , after learning how to play golf first of course.
check out Flo’s site […]