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- Mon Mar 25, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 714
Re: Young Authors
Hi MJM, It has his name on the author and the advert give a passage; " I had won the game. I went out and saw Bapu waiting for me. I rushed to him and gave him a big hug. I had become the youngest Grandmaster in the entire world. I had beaten a nineteen-year-old world record. " I remember Fred Reinf...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 714
Re: Young Authors
The Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Chess Adventures of Abhimanyu Mishra Aged 12 years, 4 months. https://www.amazon.co.uk/youngest-grand ... B0BHJKXPB7
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 2:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Daniel Gormally vs Emil Sutovsky although a loss could be added, Lasker - Napier is in the book. But Neil must have known when putting it together there would be suggestions as to games being added. He will have to stay with what he has else I'll want the extra games sent to me. :D (try and persuade...
- Wed Mar 13, 2024 11:18 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742166
Re: Media comments on chess
Last night 'New Tricks' showed the episode 'The English Defence' A Russian emigre who ran a chess club in London (founded in 1893) was a suspect so there were loads of chess references being banded about. Fischer - Spassky, Karpov - Kasparov, The Budapest Defence (for white.) too many boards on ches...
- Mon Mar 11, 2024 12:49 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
I make the closing date the 2nd of April. (if I post anything anywhere on the 1st of April everyone everywhere thinks it's a joke.) Going through the book 2-3 a day, one wee very minor quibble, I'm not fond of the diagram being upside down if Black wins. no big deal, it just looks strange after star...
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 5:14 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Media comments on chess
- Replies: 5977
- Views: 742166
Re: Media comments on chess
BBC channel 4 just reported on the five o'clock news that Garry Kasparov has been placed on a dangerous dissident list by Putin. They mentioned he will have his bank frozen and need permission to use it.
- Wed Mar 06, 2024 3:54 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
Not forgetting the Jerome Gambit when two pieces are sacced. 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5 4. Bxf7+ Kxf7 5. Nxe5+ Nxe5 Back to pawns, was there not a rule in the Danish Gambit. 1.e4 e5 2.d4 exd4 3.c3... The first pawn you must take, the 2nd pawn you can take and the 3rd pawn you may take (or someth...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:59 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: accepting gambits
- Replies: 35
- Views: 2640
Re: accepting gambits
I feel like gambit players are cowards, putting themselves in a position where they can't really lose any respect - if they win they are hailed as a dashing and brave attacker and if they lose they are patted on the back and told what a great attempt it was. As a confirmed gambiteer this to a certa...
- Tue Mar 05, 2024 9:33 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Major investment to transform future of English chess announced
- Replies: 137
- Views: 13757
Re: Major investment to transform future of English chess announced
More about concrete tables here when we discussed it last year.
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- Sun Mar 03, 2024 4:15 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
That is an interesting find Jon. He may have served and had a bad experience which resulted in him chancing his arm in problem diddling and hawking other chess books as his only a source of income. I have a couple of his books and have solved a few of 'his' problems. He tied for first in the 1915 Sc...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 11:52 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
Hi Chris, No idea what he was up in WWI as I was more interested in the books he nicked. Were they chess problem books which makes the tale about him altering chess problems even more funnier. He plagiarised chess problems from chess books he had stolen is a sentence just itching to be typed. It lif...
- Sun Mar 03, 2024 1:15 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
The Standard, June 28th 1907, p.10: Percy Wenman, aged sixteen, well-dressed, was charged at Bow-street, on remand, with stealing two books, value £1 1s., from a bookseller’s shop in New Oxford-street. At the previous hearing it was stated that he had devoted a great deal of attention to chess, and ...
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:45 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
I see the copied index links from my first post have gone. I copied, minus the game links from Jon's gratefully accepted work from there to the my first post.
- Fri Mar 01, 2024 1:26 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
(though actually this patzer did avail himself of a fair bit of silicon assistance in attempting to understand GM tactics). Hi Neil, That is fine, you are using the computer as a tool (and not the other way round.) it pops up when it is relevant as in Game 7 Zukertort - Count de Kostaki Epoureano 1...
- Thu Feb 29, 2024 5:33 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
- Replies: 80
- Views: 4210
Re: Best Game by an English Player (the vote)
If I'm allowed to vote for something from my own book... Hi Neil, Book arrived. Just a quick glance through it and I can see Gufeld will be shelved. Although I have gone over I'd say 90% of the games in the past I have never had a problem going over games again and again. The layout reminds me of t...