Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Matthew Turner » Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:21 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Tue Jul 26, 2022 3:14 pm
Struck by the graphic heading this piece (which has no obvious explanation that I can detect in the text)
The Rooks are elephants and that is also the symbol of the Republican Party, so it seems a relatively normal graphic?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Chris Rice » Tue Jul 26, 2022 11:56 pm

Rachel Reeves "Absolutely loved playing chess with Jeremy Vine on Radio 2 today. We talked about how the game influenced me as a child - and how it helps keep me sharp in politics!"

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Jul 27, 2022 10:06 pm

Private Eye 1577 has a cartoon of a chess board, with a blond-haired king lying on its side, captioned "World KIng".
(Sorry for the delay in posting - the arrival of the new edition made me read the one that had been sitting there for a couple of weeks.)

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Wed Jul 27, 2022 11:37 pm

1577 was a few years back now in 1666 they will have the fire of london edition, didnt know we had gone back in time

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:29 am

But the Sunday Times Spot the Move contest has only just reached 1333. They had a special Hastings ICC prize when they reached 1066.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:01 am

Stewart Reuben wrote:
Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:29 am
But the Sunday Times Spot the Move contest has only just reached 1333. They had a special Hastings ICC prize when they reached 1066.
i dread to think what they will have as a prize when they reach 2020, a free jug of covid juice?(If there is such a thing)LOL

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:02 am

AlanLlewellyn wrote:
Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:01 am
Stewart Reuben wrote:
Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:29 am
But the Sunday Times Spot the Move contest has only just reached 1333. They had a special Hastings ICC prize when they reached 1066.
i dread to think what they will have as a prize when they reach 2020, a free jug of covid juice?(If there is such a thing)LOL
i know a signed cd of the rem single 'its the end of the world as we know it'

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:07 am

i wouldnt knock 1066 anyway i am norman from a long family tree of normans like i guess roger de coverly my middle name is mansel. I wouldnt be here if it wasnt for old william the conqueror (sorry spell checker didnt like norman)

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Thu Jul 28, 2022 1:13 am

even alan is a french breton spelling and where the name originated from ie breton is brittany, though mansel is a name given to a person from le mans in normandy.

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Re: Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Thu Jul 28, 2022 11:15 am

One of the objectives of the BCF was to help develop chess in the Commonwealth. The BCF has reason to be proud of its actions in this respect from the 1980s.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:25 am

This weekend's "i" has a full page about the 50th anniversary of Spassky - Fischer in Iceland.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Mon Aug 01, 2022 1:00 am

PAWN TO INFINITY an anthology of short stories linking 'chess' and 'science fiction' edited by Fred and Joan Saberhagen, published in 1982.

I am rereading the stories and some others may not know of this collection.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by AlanLlewellyn » Mon Aug 01, 2022 3:46 am

did any of the commentators say the England vs Germany euro womens was like a game of chess?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Mon Aug 01, 2022 11:11 am

Kevin >This weekend's "i" has a full page about the 50th anniversary of Spassky - Fischer in Iceland.<
WHAT IS "i" ?