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Forgive for sounding like an inveterate consumer but I only went and bought Karpov's Strategic Wins by Karolyi without checking whether they are worth reading beforehand. Has anyone read them? If so how did you find them? It seem as though in terms of literature produced on Karpov they are worth a r...

Your play might have more tlc attached if you are moving pieces around you made yourself.

Regarding cooking, as you know Brits are the best in the world when it comes to cooking and I am no exception. My speciality is DairyLea on toast, and I am whizz at making a CuppaSoup as well.

Presumably chess is up there on the list of past times, and if origami is too, then this video will be right up your street. That aside, why so few make their own chess set these days reminds a question unanswered. 'Because you can just buy one' isn't a wholly agreeable answer. https://www.youtube.c...

There must be something classified as, or considered to be, the oldest surviving chess footage though?

Yeah, I know that one but assumed there must be something a bit older. I have a feeling I once saw something filmed around 1910 but can't quite remember what it was.

I listen to black metal, death metal and 80s synth pop. No post 1988 pop music at all.

After watching a mishmash of footage from the 1930s, I wondered what the oldest surviving chess footage actually is. Does anyone know?

Is it not The Kalashnikov?

oh my, Jaws 3-D was bad enough let alone Jaws 5.

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Fri Mar 19, 2021 12:08 am

There's a number at the bottom of the home page?

(of course, this doesn't include posts that have been deleted for whatever reason)

oh yeah thanks, I see it now. tbh I would have thought the overall count to be much higher.

Do we have a female perspective on what our beloved Geoffrey Diggle once wrote about?

How do you count which post we are up to?

This is a rather uplifting thread. Of the most notable -isms which have shaped academic history in the past century and more, I thought chess history was, per se, left untouched by them.

I am watching that one at present. Wondering who were the most menacing of the adversaries bond had. Some of them were scarier than others.

What about the use of 'get' and 'be'? I just heard GM David Howell say 'he could get checked by the bishop' which to me sounds like an informal way of saying 'he could be/have been checked by the bishop'.