Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sun May 15, 2016 2:31 pm

Recently finished Reading 'Enigma' by Robert Harris (published 1995) a love/spy/enigma code cracking tale.

The author credits and thanks Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (the former head of hut 6.) for his help. (page 389).

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by LawrenceCooper » Mon May 23, 2016 5:39 pm

Ian Sterling, chairman of Manchester United Supporters Trust, said: "The supporters wanted a change, to put someone in charge who knows the philosophy of the club. Attacking and competing football rather than the game of chess we have seen this season."

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Mon May 23, 2016 9:22 pm

That reminds me, during the Copa Del Rey final last night I heard the TV commentator compare the game to "una partida del ajedrez".
"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 NickFaulks » Mon May 23, 2016 11:54 pm

I'm never sure whether this means any more than "I wish something would happen, a sending off would do ".
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by John McKenna » Tue May 24, 2016 1:44 am

Geoff Chandler wrote:Recently finished Reading 'Enigma' by Robert Harris (published 1995) a love/spy/enigma code cracking tale.

The author credits and thanks Sir Stuart Milner-Barry (the former head of hut 6.) for his help. (page 389).
Good to see you contributing, again, Geoff.

This forum is not complete without you.

Does your voracious appetite for reading extend to counterfactual history?

Have you read Fatherland and/or SS-GB?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Tue May 24, 2016 2:44 pm

Hi John,

Every site I go to has gone through a major over haul and re-design.
It seems I cannot escape these 'tinkers'. I hate them all.

They only tinker and tamper to justify their existence. But as I get on
here for free (I pay up on the others) I suppose it's petty to complain....but it won't stop me.

"This forum is not complete without you."

Don't know where you get that from, there are quite a few who contribute much more
than I did. Most of time I just yanked their chain and made it successfully to their ignore list.

Currently half way through 'The Secret Life of Bletchley Park ' by Sinclair McKay.

(people who have surnames for first names is another pet hate...but I'll let him off...hopefully it's a pseudonym.)

Sir Stuart Milner-Barry and Conel Hugh O'Donel Alexander who is referred to as
'Alexander the chess player or chess champion' are popping up now and then.

This is a warts 'n' all book delving into all the background squabbles
and the tension they were all under. It also credits the Polish team
for a lot of the work they did in cracking the original codes.

And Hibs won the cup, still celebrating both victories.

Hibs 3 Rangers 2 and Hibs 1 Hampden Security Staff 0.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by John McKenna » Tue May 24, 2016 8:14 pm

Geoff, the forum is like the Ark and needs at least two halves of every kind of mind.

You are an Englishman abroad - the only one in Scotland know to the forum.

I suppose you are not so interested in counterfactual histories and lost causes despite your predilection for counterfactual chess moves and variations when analysing lost positions.

Pleased to hear that one of your soccer teams is doing well.

Round here Crystal Palace is the team, but on Saturday they lost in F.A. Cup final to Man Utd.

The chess club secretary is a season ticket holder and had a seat on Sat. I already told him that Palace would lose but he didn't care and went, anyway, instead of trying to sell his ticket to a Manchester lookalike.

I still support Stoke City (from afar, like you still support Daggers) since I misspent part of my youth there during my father's internal exile to hard labour in the mines. Stoke managed 9th place in Premier League. (I enjoyed watching them defeat old rivals Chelsea, at home, from a pub in Coulsdon after an U-160 Counties match.)

You are definitely on the list somewhere, as am, I but sometimes our names drop off/on.

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Re: Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Christopher Kreuzer » Sun May 29, 2016 7:41 am

Chess analogy here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36357501

"The dishes can be moved across the plateau like pieces on a giant chess board. Each one weighs 100 tonnes."

This is the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (an astronomical interferometer of radio telescopes in the Atacama desert of northern Chile).

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Nick Grey » Sun May 29, 2016 3:32 pm

Murray is playing a chess game at a high level. It is hard to read his next move... tie break 1st set...

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun May 29, 2016 3:33 pm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/live/football/36165478

Barnsley 1-0 Millwall
Well, if the early stages of yesterday's Championship play-off final were like a patient game of chess, this match has been more like a frenetic game of 'Hungry Hungry Hippos'.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Mon May 30, 2016 2:01 pm

Hi John,

Wee bit more from the book.

In Neil Cooper's excellent post.

http://www.ecforum.org.uk/viewtopic.php ... er#p163224

Neil mentions the famous letter delivered in person to Churchill by Milner-Barry.
(it was signed by Turing, Welchman, Milner-Barry and ALexander.)

The book reveals Milner-Barry turned up at 10 Downing Street without any form of I.D.

Churchill's secretary, Brigadier Harvie Walker, was very suspicious of this 'disorganised-seeming man.'

No doubt about it. Milner-Barry was a chess player, the disorganised bit is a dead give away.

They have stopped referring to Hugh Alexander as the 'Chess Player' he is now 'formidable with a
frightening intellect' and a 'heart throb with the ladies.'

"Alexander was my boss, and we all thought he was crazy. Tall, blond, huge blue eyes,
never stopped talking, a terrible energy..."

Corrections.

"I still support Stoke City (from afar, like you still support Daggers)"

I support The Orient. She...Mrs. C. supports that other lot.

"I still support Stoke City....I enjoyed watching them defeat old rivals Chelsea..."

Chelsea are not your rivals. Port Vale are your rivals.

"You are an Englishman abroad...."

I'm not abroad, I am just up the A1 motorway, not overseas.

"...the forum is like the Ark and needs at least two halves of every kind of mind."

In this case Noah keeps changing the shape of the Ark, some animals get better
treated than others and the white doves of peace were shot and eaten on day one.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by John McKenna » Mon May 30, 2016 9:37 pm

Classic G. Chandler post, above.

Excerpts & corrections gratefully & humbly accepted.

(I'll post in the "Stuart Milner-Barry, Messenger & Chess Player" thread if I have anything to say about "the book".)
I'm not abroad, I am just up the A1 motorway, not overseas.
Geoff, don't be too sure of the ground up there, tectonic plates only have to shift a bit and you could find yourself up the creek without a paddle.

"The kaleidoscope has been shaken", yet again Tony B is back in town and everything is on the move. Look at this, from Chris K above, -
The dishes can be moved across the plateau like pieces on a giant chess board. Each: one weighs 100 tonnes.
:shock:

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Fri Jun 03, 2016 11:17 am

Pro-Remain letter in the Times Literary Supplement includes among its signatories Veselin Topalov and Maxime Vachier-Lagrave.
"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 Christopher Kreuzer » Fri Jun 03, 2016 2:46 pm

"Wawrinka moving Murray around the baseline like a chess piece"...