Media comments on chess

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Interesting article:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/ ... urkashiyan

'It was strange’: Iranian chess players meet across board in exile

[Matt Mackenzie]

Becoming as big an exile chess community as the Russians (or indeed Soviets in the old days)

[Kevin Thurlow]

Cricinfo (Australia vs India)

Abinash Das: "Eager to see Labuschagne vs Ashwin's technical, tactical and mental battle at the Chepauk surface. It'll be an on-ground personification of chessboard on the cricket pitch with two of the current best theorists putting their best foot forward on the grandest stage."

[Stewart Reuben]

I have been watching the. snooker on TV. There are a surprisingly large number of comments on chess.
e.g. Snooker isn't at all like your local chess club, the difference is that there are two grandmasters in play.
The difference is that, in snooker, you can't explain what you are about to do.
The AJ Bell ad.
MrQSpin an online casino TV ad uses chess imagery, presumably to promote the idea that their customers are intelligent.
Eurosport 1 intro had 2 images of chess.
...But they never show chess programmes on that station.

It all adds to publicity for our game and may led some people to taking it up.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Stuart,

It's all part of FIDE's subliminal chess advertising campaign.
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I went into my local library and said to the librarian that the chess books are not in the usual place. "I know," said the librarian, "...they've moved!"

[Mick Norris]

From the Guardian website covering Rachel Reeves speech

Reeves, a champion chess player as a teenager, says in chess you learn to think several moves ahead.

But even she could not have foreseen the events of the last few years.

[Roger de Coverly]

Carlsen's latest loss

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ating.html

and elsewhere

[Tim Spanton]

Carlsen's latest loss

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... ating.html

and elsewhere

Magnus seems to be suffering from a touch of the Tartakowers (https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordpress ... tsmanship/)

[Mick Norris]

3Cs are on The One Show on BBC 1 @ 7 pm tonight

[NickFaulks]

Magnus seems to be suffering from a touch of the Tartakowers (https://kevinspraggettonchess.wordpress ... tsmanship/)

Absolutely. It's been a while since I have been brave enough to look at Spraggett's site, I scrolled down and was reminded why.

[LawrenceCooper]

The One Show had a three minute segment today on 3Cs chess club. I recognised Dale James (the winner of the Under 14 in 1984 when I played my first British) along with Adam Ashton, wife + kids. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... w-13102023 It starts after about 2 minutes.

[Mick Norris]

3Cs are on The One Show on BBC 1 @ 7 pm tonight

The video is on the 3Cs website

There are some additional photos

For those wondering why chess isn't on TV more, it took them 5 years to persuade the BBC to come and film

[Tim Spanton]

Chess is the featured article on the front page of Wikipedia today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

[Matt Mackenzie]

To be more precise, the most recent Olympiad.

[J T Melsom]

Past Lying by Val McDermid.

Edinburgh DCI Karen Pirie of the Historic Cases Unit takes on a fiendishly difficult assignment made even harder by the exigencies of the Covid-19 lockdown.

Now that Hamish Mackenzie, her coffee chain–owning boyfriend, is off in the Highlands, Karen’s settled into his home together with DS Daisy Mortimer, her lockdown flatmate. She’s allowed one hour of outdoor exercise a day, and she’s been warned to keep her distance from members of the public. So it’s lucky for her that mystery novelist Jake Stein, the leading suspect in the disappearance of Lara Hardie, an EU student who vanished a year ago, has died himself in the meantime. The weightiest piece of evidence against Jake, whose career had taken a sudden downturn after an ex-lover’s public accusations of sexual abuse had sent both his wife and publisher heading for the exits, is truly chilling: The Vanishing of Laurel Oliver, an unfinished manuscript he left behind that laid out in meticulous detail how fictional crime writer Jamie Cobain, an obvious stand-in for his author, lured the title character into an isolated location and strangled her so that he could frame his chess partner and professional rival Rob Thomas, a thinly disguised version of Ross McEwen, the rising mystery novelist and chess partner who’d taken up with Jake’s ex-wife, for the murder. The tricky setup sounds like Anthony Horowitz, but the subplot concerning Karen’s troubled efforts to shelter a Syrian refugee on the run from the assassins whose attack back home led to the deaths of his wife and son, is pure McDermid.

‘Ingenious, humane, and all too telling as a reminder of the costs of the pandemic even on its survivors.’— Kirkus Reviews (July 2023)