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It indeed is one and the same.

Married to the late Peter Furlong, of course.

Had a bad car accident in the late 1980s and never really recovered, though she lived for some time afterwards.

I would certainly be surprised if one is held on the normal scale.

Patrick McGoohan?

IIRC because he did not approve of Bond's (lack of) morals.

Live And Let Die, A View To A Kill - the latter quite possibly the best thing DD ever did.

Adam Raoof wrote: ↑

Tue Mar 02, 2021 12:58 pm

Get your jabs.

That at least is something I would hope everyone here could agree on.

(still waiting for mine btw)

More seriously, given the profile of the people living at the venue, I wouldn't be surprised if they and their carers will all be vaccinated (including second dose) in the next couple of months. If they are indeed vaccinated, a chess tournament will present no risk to them. That's not correct becau...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Mon Mar 01, 2021 9:43 am

Also I am not convinced all the middle three in that list were "heralded as possible future world champions".

Both Svidler and Moro almost certainly were in their junior days, and of course the former at least had a few decent cracks at it.

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Sun Feb 28, 2021 10:08 am

Having now seen the whole thing, my opinion is very much that it's a lot better show when it centres on the characters rather than the chess.

Even so, its portrayal of actual chess play is still well above average - low bar though that may be.

Not surprised that it has started to garner awards.

I also played him twice in the 1980s, and pretty sure he was Coventry based by then.

Not sure exactly who he played as a young man, but he may well be my best prospect of a lowish Morphy number.

Its one reason why I have hardly ever played online chess.

And there were certainly other players - from the former USSR especially - who could easily have gained such an accolade but didn't.

Anthony (Tony) Kirby, a stalwart of Barrow Chess Club for longer than many of us have been alive, passed away last week aged 82. Despite his age, he had been in pretty good shape when we last saw him in the autumn, and this news was not expected. One of a chess playing family - his father was also a...

There isn't going to be a lockdown because of bog-standard flu, lets be realistic here

My repertoires for White and Black are almost totally different

One of the few things they have in common is the Italian Game, so I suspect my "record" is to be found somewhere there.