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please clarify your comment Justin

"It's the only one of the new ones I've seen. It really was excruciatingly bad - badly acted, badly scripted, absolutely devoid of anything engaging or memorable or original in any way." Must disagree totally Both Queens Gambit and Queen of Katwe are very interesting films with a chess theme I have ...

Comment from Guardian today from famous theoretical physicist https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/apr/03/string-theory-michio-kaku-aliens-god-equation-large-hadron-collider "String theory involves a great deal of theoretical physics, fiendish mathematics and mind-boggling abstraction. Do you th...

From the Torbay Chess Congress website

"On a positive note, we are planning to hold the 2021 Congress on Armistice weekend (12th - 14th November). We hope to start accepting entries for the 2021 Congress around the middle of 2021.

Hi David
What are views about flights
hold back or not for the time being

Very sorry to hear this
I played a really exciting game with him in the British in Bournemouth (2016) which we drew in the end
He was a lovely man when we chatted afterwards
RIP

Hi David
Looks just what i need after a year of no OTB
Have just entered and hoping for the best by October

" that imaginative star dust that The Queens Gambit had in spades"
Agree totally with you Matt
I thought it was brilliant on so many levels and has been the best thing that has happened for ages in bringing chess to the notice of the general public

We seem to be straying considerably from the subject of chess

"I think Charlie Storey's advert in the Women's Chess Category for the Queens Gambit Academy comes a close second." I do agree with you Simon I took out a months Netflix subscription to watch the Queens Gambit and it's fabulous . It has done a great deal to to bring chess to a wider audience Perhaps...

I have just finished watching it on Netflix and thought it was excellent You can watch it for about £10 ( just take out a subscription and then cancel it within a month ) It is 7 episodes 45 to 60 min each It was good in so many ways: the story , the characters , the acting , the filming, the period...

Ah Simon
Portmeirion takes me back to that wonderful cult TV show The Prisoner "i am not a number I am a free man " and patrick mcgoohan's Lotus 7
Happy memories
But I suspect you are talking about Portmeirion Australia not Portmeirion North WAles

Thanks Simon
Would love to take part but I fear they are a bit too far away for a weekender !!
Hope you well

Just watched it at long last I thought it was great in reminding me about a period when I first became really interested in chess. Chess was exciting and dramatic in those days So good to hear so much from strong grandmasters of the past. I don't see how any chess player could not get at least some ...

For anyone who missed it last night and wants to watch it it is repeated on Freeview 91 at 1555 today and Sunday at 1010 and 2010
It is quite ironic having started this thread I fell asleep yesterday evening after a few glasses of wine ( it happens at my age ) so will watch it this afternoon