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Alex & Lara congratulations Fantastic news. Good to see Alex looking well. Hopefully Lara has quit smoking. I've known Alex and Lara for twenty-five years. They do a great job in the North of England. It's the first time I've seen Alex wear a suit and Lara's brother looks a bit like Jonathan Speelm...

I took a look at https://ratings.fide.com/rated_tournaments.phtml?country=ENG out of curiosity to see what's there. There was a rapidplay in Hull listed for yesterday, but I rather think that's just not been removed. Otherwise it's just the Northumbria Masters in August, the Northumberland weekende...

Today's Sunday Times Culture Section. Page 30.
2.35pm to 4.35pm BBC1.
"FILM: Queen of Katwe
Stars David Oyelowo. The life of a poor Ugandan youngster is changed for ever when she is introduced to the game of chess. Uplifting. (2016, PG)"

Provisionally Queen of Katwe is being shown on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon from 2.35pm until 4.35pm.
There is a write up about the film in today's The Times newspaper in the TV Review section.
It's an excellent film and inspirational story about Phiona Mutesi.

Provisionally on BBC1 tomorrow afternoon 2.35pm until 4.35pm Film: Queen of Katwe
Film based on Phiona Mutesi came out in 2016.
Sadly I believe Disney has still not released the Film on DVD in Europe.

Monday 5th April
BBC2 Mastermind.
One of the semi-final episodes in the General Knowledge round there was a question on Chess:
"In Chess, which piece can take en-passant? "
Which the contestant answered correctly.

There was a song came out in 1990 where "Money Talks" was in the chorus:
The Adventures of Stevie V - Dirty Cash

I've been listening and watching
Tiesto- Adagio for Strings/Secret
from the Epic Tomorrowland Show 2019.

Come to sunny Scarborough Kevin. Not as sunny as Blackpool though.

According to the Malta Chess website:
Charlie " is a world famous Chess Master " and "his dream is to make Malta one of the best Chess playing nations in the world ".

What date is it today? I suspect that you can forget about Charlie arranging anything in Malta. This was 5 hours ago on FB: "After careful consideration of all that Malta and Gozo has to offer, in comparison with living in England, I have decided to return to England as I am missing the weather, th...

but perhaps something will be organised before then. If he's resolved his differences with the local Malta federation, perhaps the Sniper will pop up with something. We've not heard from the Sniper since the end of January. I believe he was building extra wings on Troll Prison to welcome new inmate...

There are no Grandmasters that no one has ever heard of. I have only counted a couple of players who have "died many decades after they played their last competitive game. " There are deaths reported by other members that I've never heard of either, it doesn't mean they shouldn't be reported. That's...

An exciting first race of the season in Bahrain. Another 22 races to go. The next race is in Italy in less than three weeks time.

A tough week for Nottinghamshire chess.
Sad news that Alan has passed aswell.
RIP