Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Mick Norris » Tue May 25, 2021 7:38 am

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I'm working my way through the French thriller series Lupin on Netflix. The episode tonight involves a video which is disguised by being labelled French Chess Championship 1993. Why? So that nobody will watch it.
Except Emmanuel Bricard?
Or Claire Gervais?
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sat May 29, 2021 10:06 am

How, you wonder, might El País be describing tonight's football match
"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 » Sat May 29, 2021 12:15 pm

Speaking of football, Chess United play in the Sunday league in the Watford area at the Maple Cross playing fields.

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Surely their strip is a black/white chequered pattern.
(now intrigued - would like more info, I have a phone number for them but it is not recognised.)

The badge is a Knight, I have decided it is the King's Knight and....

The 'King's Knight, currently 7-1 is running today at the 14:40 at CHESSter.
Worth a a few quid each way - Willie Hills are paying 1-4 places e/way for that one.
(also running in the same race is 'Boardman. 9/4 favourite, not worth it e/way but it is an omen.)

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by David Gilbert » Sat May 29, 2021 1:08 pm

Apparently there’s a horse called Chess Player. A few months ago a friend told me that (thinking of me) he’d had placed a tenner on the nose - the horse was the favourite and finished a close second. I told him what a coincidence that was because it’s where I mostly finish!

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sat May 29, 2021 3:27 pm

Yesterday evening I was watching Richard Linklater's film Before Midnight (2013) and during one sequence Ethan Hawke started talking about chess, computers and Garry Kasparov, and I think gave a brief impression of Kasparov.
"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 » Sat May 29, 2021 4:21 pm

Hi Dave,

I too have bet on Chess Player. It's how I pick my horses and dogs, anything to do with chess.
(It's also how I picked my wife - she has chequered eyes!)

Both Boardman (£5.00 to win) and Kings Knight (£2.00 e/way) came in so I have money coming back.
Good. Soon I'll be able to afford the cost a new chess book.
(Is it just me or have others also noticed that over £20.00 for a new book is fast becoming the norm.)

Hi Justin,

Recently read a short story by Ambrose Bierce, 'Moxon's Master' about a chess computer. I did some net searching on it.

'First published in The San Francisco Examiner on April 16, 1899, it is one of the first descriptions
of a robot in English-language literature written much before the word 'robot' came to be used.'

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moxon%27s_Master

Edit:

Found the story:

http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stori ... Mast.shtml

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat May 29, 2021 7:13 pm

I was listening to a JAMIE CULLUM album, 'Catching Tales' track one.....
'What game shall we play today?' ..... 'QxPch or checkmate?'

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat May 29, 2021 7:56 pm

"I was listening to a JAMIE CULLUM album"

Ah, I had you down more as an Eminem fan?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sat May 29, 2021 8:10 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 Stewart Reuben » Sat May 29, 2021 8:16 pm

Kevin >Ah, I had you down more as an Eminem fan?<
The internet tells me Eminem is a rapper. I might love his music - if ever I should listen to it. Jazz or Easy Listening are more my scene.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sat May 29, 2021 8:23 pm

I have now been exposed to Eminem for about 3-4 minutes. I realise the lyrics did mention chess.
I hope not to do so again.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Sat May 29, 2021 11:15 pm

"I have now been exposed to Eminem for about 3-4 minutes."

He's not to everyone's taste...

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by NickFaulks » Sun May 30, 2021 9:17 am

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cumm ... -0l7hk2l5b

Behind a paywall, but just so everyone knows it's there...
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Sun May 30, 2021 3:44 pm

I think that Cummings as a (moderate strength) chessplayer has been discussed here before.
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roger de Coverly » Sun May 30, 2021 4:19 pm

NickFaulks wrote:
Sun May 30, 2021 9:17 am
Behind a paywall, but just so everyone knows it's there...
The first couple of paragraphs are free to read.

It's a piece by Dominic Lawson in which he likens the appearance by the other Dominic (Cummings) before the Select Committee to a chess master taking on all-comers in a simul.

The forum had already outed DC as a player.
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