English Chess Forum

Simon Rogers wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 04, 2021 8:58 pm

One of the less well known which I liked was "Capsule in Space " by the John Barry Orchestra from the film "You Only Live Twice ".
I bought a double CD a number of years ago titled:
"Best of Bond ... James Bond. 50 years - 50 tracks"
Which was excellent.

John Barry was massively underrated.

It would be great if the ECF kept a page of links to chess histories - for club or county. Perhaps we can start here with a list of histories. This may inspire others to write a history of their area. I am aware that Roy Maddock compiled a 117-page history of Harrow Chess Club for its centenary in ...

What about the following sentence: 'My team may be relegated this season, hopefully that won't happen though.' Anything wrong? If so then what?

Matt Mackenzie wrote: ↑

Wed Mar 03, 2021 4:28 pm

Patrick McGoohan?

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

Yeah, not too sure about the lack of morals thing but quite possibly true.

And which Irishman refused the role in the 60s?

lol, Living Daylight also very good.

Jaws was a scary guy.

If you have a Netflix account and watch the American show Jeopardy, then go to Episode 7599. One of the categories is 'Let's Play Chess'. I won't say if they are easy or difficult.

I thought From Russia with Love was diabolical.

Apologies, I meant author.

Agreed. I don't wish to sound old but the youngest generation of all don't seem to have any grounding in theory and play purely for fun. Perhaps I did in my teens too. Hard to see chess these days as being something not theory-laden. Yet most people on-line have no real positional play to their game.

If you had to put James Bond films in order from best to worst, how would you place them? Do you have a favourite Bond film? I just saw Goldfinger and thought it was absolutely awful. A View to a kill is probably my favourite.

But is it correct to say he blundered during a blitz game. I mean according to the position it is, I mean objectively speaking but then everyone does during blitz, and no one really expects not to. We can, I think, say we blunder but I don't think it means anything given that context. Saying 'oh he ...

Stockfish.

I've noticed on chess.com that blitz games are annotated as are bullet games, when you look through them afterwards that is. Shouldn't some sort of sliding scale be introduced for faster time limits? I was accused of committing a blunder by missing mate in 2 and choosing mate in 4 instead but given ...