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One of the strongest events of the Seventies with Tal told to slow down to let Karpov draw level with him. A brilliant event, a good book, of course no Bobby, some happy memories and autographs. Rich mix of annotators with all the games ripped to pieces, glued back together, examined under the micro...

When at Hastings in the days of yore I heard BH Wood ask Smyslov whether he'd annotate a game or two
"Vasily, I offer you a book, some money and a tie!"
He accepted!
James

'The English Chess Explosion' by Ray Keene and Murray Chandler (Batsford). Those really were the days!!
https://www.youtube.com/live/lngcnerMl6 ... cf8nmPF1wm
James

When I last saw Paul Buswell - we were on the train to the British Championships - I enquired about 'BC' but, local though they both were, Paul didn't know where he was. Diabetes troubled Bernard, I know, and he'd often excuse himself from our gatherings en route to the chemists. I interviewed him s...

Some special titles all out of print I must assume. Like and subscribe why don't you? Championship Chess - I have a Dover - is a beauty and here updated by Fred Reinfeld. Social Chess by James Mason Career of Richard Teichmann, an old edition, typed and lovingly falling apart. Some pleasant notes an...

No. 1682 of the Eye contains a quick article on Raymond Keene. It is about AVICENNA DOCTORATE AWARDS not that I got you understand. The award ceremony was last June so don't get your hopes up. The actual gong is named after, I should have got you to guess, a 10th Century Muslim physician, household ...

I haven't seen his name for ages. He was a staunch supporter of the British at one time.
James

I am humbled by both Johns!
James

A quick peep at the confusion - promoted here not at all - caused by Robert Robinson and Robert Robinson having the same name. Some recommendations offered also. The obituary of Sir RR appeared in BCM in 1975 and is most touching. These days, at least in my opinion, these things are dealt with corre...

I just used AI for details of the 1973-75 World Title Cycle which has always fascinated me. It made three crashing errors giving me the wrong Candidates pairings, even leaving out Byrne completely. On all occasions, when corrected, it apologised but basically is was almost like guess work, not histo...

This painting is in 'Chess In Art' 1100-1900 by Peter Herel Raabenstein (Here Love 2020) p102 and attributed to FMA Retzsch a German painter, draughtman and etcher. His dates are given as 1779-1857.
James

I was told that Peter's Soviet Miniatures was a poor seller. PHC himself added that he was going to write one on American Miniatures but just never got round to it. Paul is correct of course it is still quite a book.
James

I thought Speelman's comments flip and inappropriate and towards the end, not worth broadcasting. I was surprised at him.
James

My YouTube has stopped allowing me use of hyperlinks but if you still use UT just plug this in for a chess and art history lesson, combined, use the heading 'Nobody Noticed .. ' ~ see above ~ for talk of the :twisted: devil, Morphy and to watch some detailed detective work that verges on the forensi...

This is a guess, might they be not chessers exactly but IT boffins? I therefore wildly offer Eric Hallsworth. Actually I have no idea but surely one of the others pictured can help John.
James