Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by David Sedgwick » Sun May 15, 2022 9:42 am

Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Sun May 15, 2022 12:17 am
But does "style" always matter above all else? IIRC his eldest son was known as Mountbatten-Windsor at university.
It doesn't always matter above all else. It depends on the circumstances and the context.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sun May 15, 2022 1:50 pm

David Sedgwick wrote:
Sat May 14, 2022 8:44 pm
If you lack sufficient respect for someone to use their correct name
What would that be, Saxe-Coburg-Gotha?
"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 Alex McFarlane » Sun May 15, 2022 2:36 pm

Why are we worried what people call Baron Renfrew (my old home town!) or the Duke of Rothesay as he is formally known north of the border?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sun May 15, 2022 4:23 pm

From the live coverage of the Giro d'Italia today:

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sun May 15, 2022 6:44 pm

Justin >This final is becoming a chess game among six men<
Well, at least they wren't going to pieces.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sun May 15, 2022 10:23 pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-61457622

Ukraine war: Russia's invasion not going to plan, Nato says

[...]
There has been no let up for the remaining Ukrainian forces in Mariupol, with Russia continuing its bombardment of the steelworks where they are holed up. Video purportedly from inside showed men checking their phones and playing chess.
Not found the actual videos yet.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roland Kensdale » Tue May 17, 2022 5:10 pm

Nike 50th anniversary video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EfCKHpe0Q

Trash talking player on a set used in parks in the U.S. gets mated by young female opponent.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roland Kensdale » Thu May 19, 2022 5:26 pm

Roland Kensdale wrote:
Tue May 17, 2022 5:10 pm
Nike 50th anniversary video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=K0EfCKHpe0Q
Encouraged by the response to the first video, they have released a version nearly five times as long: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rD-XFcmvGuc

Seems they have quite a neat mate from an actual game. After an earlier clip of the winner announcing check, they show an irrelevant clip of a rook move elsewhere. Probably the editor forgot to run the final video past their chess consultant.

The final comment: 'Its all about the shoes'

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Thu May 19, 2022 7:03 pm

I think it was shot in Washington Park in Manhattan, an utterly iconic chess setting.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Thu May 19, 2022 7:55 pm

Hi Stewart,

Chess in Princes Street Gardens, (Thursday and Sunday from 2pm - clock and sets provided) is also very iconic

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Taken today, about 30 bods turned up. Wonderful day (I won more than I lost.)

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Thu May 19, 2022 11:58 pm

Geoff - definition ionic - very famous or popular, especially being considered to represent particular opinions or a particular time:
How often is chess played in Princes Street Gardens? It is a very nice photo and a very nice setting. Scotland has good reason to be proud of Edinburgh Chess Club, along with Hastings, 3Cs and the new club in Hammersmith. But chess in Washington Square Park appears many times in ads and films and written material.
NEW YORK CITY› ATTRACTION
Washington Square Park
At the southern end of Fifth Ave (where it intersects Waverly Place, btw. MacDougal and Wooster Sts.).
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Entertaining as well are the intense chess matches played in Washington Square Park from noon to sundown on the southwest corner of the park (the regulars are real sharks).

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Fri May 20, 2022 12:13 pm

Hi Stewart,

' But chess in Washington Square Park appears many times in ads and films and written material.'

That ad was filmed in a studio and the backdrop added with television trickery so it does not count.

Chess in the shadow of the castle with the Ross Fountain a few feet away playing a refreshing water tune. Bliss.
(what is it about the sound of rippling water that calms, cools and inspires...maybe in a previous life I was a fish...a clown fish!).

The lad I'm playing, a new friend, a student who is going to do some research for me at the Uni library.
Which is another great thing about playing chess 'anywhere.' You meet like minded people.

Back on thread topic.

In the 'Secret War' by Max Hastings, (page 529) some of the scientists on the Manhattan Project
were approached by a Russian spy who was given the code name 'The Chess Player.'

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Fri May 20, 2022 3:14 pm

Geoff >That ad was filmed in a studio and the backdrop added with television trickery so it does not count.<
Why not? I gave my definition, from a dictionary, of iconic. It did not include, most beautiful, or most authentic.
We have probably exhausted this thread about the meaning of one particular word.
By the way, I have a water-effect installation in my flat

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by J T Melsom » Tue May 31, 2022 11:51 am

In Sidetracked by Henning Mankell , Wallander seeks advice from a journalist whose career went astray after a drink driving incident.

''His wife had left their childless marriage. He continued drinking but managed not to step too far over the line. He gave up his career in journalism and made a living setting chess problems for a number of newspapers. The only reason he hadn't drunk himself to death was that every day he forced himself to hold off on that first drink until he had devised at least one chess problem."

I have a feeling I've seen this somewhere before, but searching for Wallander here brings up a thread about CJ and Sheffield, and I've lost the link to the S&B blog list of literary references.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Mick Norris » Tue May 31, 2022 12:37 pm

Not sure

Long time since I read the book or saw the Swedish or English TV adaptations, so it may have been years ago
Any postings on here represent my personal views

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