Weekend FT front page chess article

[Leonard Barden]

I realise this item comes under Media Comments on Chess, but it is so well written that I think it deserves its own thread. Judge for yourself.

https://www.ft.com/content/e78f86b8-d1c ... b3d4fe307c

[LawrenceCooper]

I realise this item comes under Media Comments on Chess, but it is so well written that I think it deserves its own thread. Judge for yourself.

https://www.ft.com/content/e78f86b8-d1c ... b3d4fe307c

That link took me to a page trying to sell me an FT subscription. Is this the link you meant?

https://www.ft.com/content/e78f86b8-d1c ... 7_dv892euY

[Stephen Westmoreland]

It keeps hitting a pay wall. I would suggest typing the title into a search engine and getting in that way.

It is a fantastic read though, casting chess in an almost mystical light almost away from everything going on in the world. The author eating Chess.com's pizza did make me chuckle.

[Joey Stewart]

Can someone cut and paste the article here, I don't like the times pathetic and desperate attempts to scrounge money out of readers so that might learn them a lesson!

[Richard Bates]

Can someone cut and paste the article here, I don't like the times pathetic and desperate attempts to scrounge money out of readers so that might learn them a lesson!

More likely to result in the forum being learnt a lesson.

[Ian Thompson]

Can someone cut and paste the article here, I don't like the times pathetic and desperate attempts to scrounge money out of readers so that might learn them a lesson!

I followed Stephen's suggestion of entering "Enter the inner sanctum of elite chess" into Google and was able to access the article from the search results.

[JustinHorton]

Sometimes helps

[Roger Lancaster]

Can someone cut and paste the article here, I don't like the times pathetic and desperate attempts to scrounge money out of readers so that might learn them a lesson!

I followed Stephen's suggestion of entering "Enter the inner sanctum of elite chess" into Google and was able to access the article from the search results.

Of course, it might instead result in an action for breach of copyright for anyone brave, or fool, enough to risk pasting it here. Much safer is to foIIow the suggestion to use a search engine.

[Roger de Coverly]

Sometimes helps

That may explain why the trick of using Google to search for the headline usually works.

[Geoff Chandler]

Can someone cut and paste the article here...

Hi Joey,

Far too long and probably illegal. See above or tinker with the cookie settings to get in.
That goes for anyone else who wants a good well written read.

Leonard was correct in isolating it

When mentioning the Ruy Lopez, Morphy Defence, Marshall Gambit the writer, Oliver Roeder, adds;
Chess players, like taxonomists, love to name things.'

That reminded me that there is a 'Taxidermy Chess Set' a chess set made up of dead stuffed rodents.
(is there anything that has not been turned into a chess set?)

[JustinHorton]

The piece, by the way, is indeed very good.

The author eating Chess.com's pizza did make me chuckle.

Heh yes

[Roger de Coverly]

The author eating Chess.com's pizza did make me chuckle.

Mention of chess.com reminds me that it was not so long ago that FIDE (or Agon at least) were fighting chess.com, chess24 etc in any Court that would listen over the rights to coverage of Candidates and World Championships.

It's far more sensible for FIDE to partner its intermittent prestige events with chess sites already giving 24/7 coverage than set up in oppossition to them.

[Stephen Westmoreland]

Absolutely. Those sites are really good for commentary.

[Chris Goodall]

I thought my reasonable compromise, that Agon have exclusive rights to cover the White moves and chess.com to cover the Black, was rather summarily dismissed