Media comments on chess

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:46 am

https://www.glasgow2014.com/feature/%E2 ... y%E2%80%9D

JustinHorton · Post by **JustinHorton** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 10:30 am

Watch out for chessboard references during the Brazil-Croatia match tonight.

Kevin Thurlow · Post by **Kevin Thurlow** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:08 pm

"Watch out for chessboard references during the Brazil-Croatia match tonight."

it has to be said that the Croatian shirts are likely to provoke such comments...

Peter Shaw · Post by **Peter Shaw** » Thu Jun 12, 2014 12:14 pm

Geoff Boycott on England v Sri Lanka: "It's a five-day Test match. It's like chess, you can't win a chess match in two or three moves but you can sure as hell get yourself into trouble."

Stewart Reuben · Post by **Stewart Reuben** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 1:15 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvx1fQiE ... e=youtu.be

I have known Sam Sloan for 50 years. A slightly more than somewhat controversial figure in chess. Could he get elected - not to FIDE, but to congress - I mean the US one?

JustinHorton · Post by **JustinHorton** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 8:57 am

Matt Mackenzie · Post by **Matt Mackenzie** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 7:50 pm

Doubt that even the present day GOP would have him.

Stewart Reuben · Post by **Stewart Reuben** » Sat Jun 14, 2014 10:45 pm

http://home.premiumchess.net/events/201 ... eries.aspx

Stewart Reuben · Post by **Stewart Reuben** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 2:54 am

I saw a TV ad for X-box One. There is a chessboard and set in the background.

I don't know why.

Peter D Williams · Post by **Peter D Williams** » Mon Jun 16, 2014 6:23 pm

Chinese media has reported that three men wielding knives had burst into a gaming hall in Hotan, Xinjiang, and attacked a group of people playing chess on Sunday afternoon. Four people were hurt, they said.

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:04 am

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/congressmen-p ... ml#JG0iKP0

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 11:09 am

http://m.news18.com/latest/news/viswana ... 80206.html

JustinHorton · Post by **JustinHorton** » Thu Jun 19, 2014 12:12 pm

Peter D Williams wrote:Chinese media has reported that three men wielding knives had burst into a gaming hall in Hotan, Xinjiang, and attacked a group of people playing chess on Sunday afternoon. Four people were hurt, they said.

Mah-jong apparently

John Upham · Post by **John Upham** » Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:35 pm

http://badlyspeltwords.com/2014/06/magn ... s-prodigy/

Stewart Reuben · Post by **Stewart Reuben** » Sat Jun 28, 2014 12:47 pm

Saturday Times Magazine 21 June 2014.

Dr Peter Bach, 'We were finally caught in cancer's zugswang, the point in the game where all possible moves make you worse off.'

I think that is he first time I have come across zugswang, apart from in the context of a game such as draughts. In bridge they used 'throw-in', where the player has to play away from his strength when it is his turn to play.

I have asked military personnel whether zugswang every arises in warfare.

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