Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Wed Jan 05, 2022 6:06 pm

"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sun Jan 09, 2022 11:22 pm

'Do You Dream of Terra-Two?' by Temi Oh. Another book from the free Metro box.

A very brief synopsis:
An earth like planet has been discovered but it takes 23 years to get there.
We (the Brits) hand pick 200 of our brightest 10 -12 years olds and after two
years they have been trimmed down to six and trained as a child to adult crew
who will be in their mid 30's by the time they arrive. It is a one way trip.
It's a coming of age thing set onboard a spaceship.

Chess?
The book states one of the kids fathers (surname given as Belgrave) was the
youngest ever GM till this record was broken by Bu Xiangzhi in 1999.

Opinion?
A bit too slow for me, they do not take-off till page 120. I did not finish it. Dumped it back into a freebie metro box.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Tue Jan 11, 2022 11:10 pm

Newsnight BBC2. Tonight's episode there was a report about the Ukraine crisis and the Russian army massing on their border. The BBC reporter said " The Ukraine is a pawn in a game of chess where only one side is playing."

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Wed Jan 12, 2022 12:07 am

NFL This Week, BBC2 11.15pm to 12.05am.
Tuesday 11th January.
One of the presenters, Jason Bell talked about the qualities of the San Francisco 49ers Wide Receiver, Deebo Samuel and said "he is the ultimate chess piece."
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roger Lancaster » Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:33 am

NickFaulks wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:28 pm
Stewart Reuben wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:54 pm
Michael led towards his A Q Hearts and put the queen up. Viktor, a very weak player failed to cover it and he lost it when Michael next led the AH.
Seriously, that weak?
Yes, that's pretty much the bridge equivalent of leaving one's queen en prise. But I'm impressed that Karpov and Korchnoi, who are known to have had their differences (think blueberry yogurt, for example) over the years, could reconcile to the extent of pairing one another at bridge.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Paul Habershon » Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:09 am

Roger Lancaster wrote:
Wed Jan 12, 2022 4:33 am
NickFaulks wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 9:28 pm
Stewart Reuben wrote:
Mon Jan 03, 2022 7:54 pm
Michael led towards his A Q Hearts and put the queen up. Viktor, a very weak player failed to cover it and he lost it when Michael next led the AH.
Seriously, that weak?
Yes, that's pretty much the bridge equivalent of leaving one's queen en prise. But I'm impressed that Karpov and Korchnoi, who are known to have had their differences (think blueberry yogurt, for example) over the years, could reconcile to the extent of pairing one another at bridge.
I think this may be the 1971/72 Hastings tournament when Karpov was only 20 years old and Korchnoi may have been the avuncular figure looking after him. Looking back at the Premier results I was surprised to be reminded it was a 16-player all-play-all, even though I was there at the time. For many years it was just ten players. I remember standing over a Karpov-Michael Franklin post-mortem in the adjoining cafe area. Franklin was saying he didn't think he had made a mistake but had somehow lost. Karpov didn't have enough English to explain clearly why. The two Russians tied first with 11/15.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Jan 12, 2022 8:21 am

"I think this may be the 1971/72 Hastings tournament when Karpov was only 20 years old and Korchnoi may have been the avuncular figure looking after him."

Yes - I was there and saw them playing bridge together. For the uninitiated, the Russians frequently sent two players, one older one, one young one, who followed the older one around.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roger Lancaster » Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:51 am

All is explained. Thanks to Paul and Kevin for clarifying.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jan 13, 2022 5:40 pm

There's a brief mention of chess in this BBC piece on the wider purposes of play.
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Wed Jan 19, 2022 7:04 pm

I came home just after six and the wife told me she thought one of the winners on
Pointless said he was going to spend some of his winnings on chess matches.

I've just used 'Catch Up' and watched the intro bit in round one to see if there was any mention of chess. No.
Fast forward to the last round where he and his partner won £1750.
He is a cricket fan from New Zealand and his accent misled the missus. He said "Test Matches."

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by David Sedgwick » Thu Jan 20, 2022 2:11 pm

Not strictly a "media" comment, as the BBC were quoting an MP, but:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60071311

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Thu Jan 20, 2022 3:06 pm

Oh, one can only hope.

For the record, in full:
Looks like checkmate for Boris Johnson says senior Tory Steve Baker

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Mick Norris » Fri Jan 21, 2022 9:04 am

Any postings on here represent my personal views

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Jan 21, 2022 10:12 am

From the last link, I particularly ejoyed,

"Hence, they weren’t running Sean McVay’s vaunted bread and butter play action bootlegs and waggles the way McVay routinely did with Jared Goff."

Now how to get that in a chess annotation...

Is a "bread and butter play action bootleg" something like Bxh7+?

And I assume when they say "QB", they mean quarterback not queen's bishop.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Mon Jan 24, 2022 10:34 am

Has anybody mentioned the Russian film Champion Of The World on here yet? It's absout the Baguio match saw it mentioned today in a tweet from Russian Chess News - they seem to have given it an absolute panning - and it rang a bell, but maybe one existing only in my imagination.
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