Media comments on chess

[Peter Hornsby]

https://www.babababoon.co.uk/newcastle- ... ournament/

A lovely article about Newcastle Chess Club, the World Chess League.Live and the 'Newcastle's of the World' chess competition we're trying to set up, great that local media are interested in these sort of things

[Tim Spanton]

Literary Review review of Churchill, Chamberlain And Appeasement: "In the runup to the outbreak of war, politicians and officials were playing games of three-dimensional chess in which many often-conflicting concerns had to be taken into account."

[Stewart Reuben]

Ad on ITV The company is Pumina.
You see Felix, a cat, wriggling on a chess board with the pieces displayed. It was too quick to tell whether it was a feasible position.
If you go to the website, Robbie Williams sings 'It's great to be a cat'
It seems to be advertising PURINA they manufacture a cat Food called FELIX.

[Stewart Reuben]

I have just thought. It would have been sociologically interesting to collect ads that featured chess.
Anybody volunteering to start one?

[MJMcCready]

Do you remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJULtxR7wCg

[Geoff Chandler]

I think chess in a cartoon should be granted a wee bit of leeway.

However we do have white on the right so the board is the correct way around. The Kings and Queens are on the wrong square, legally this could have happened as there is white pawn on f3.

There is a cat v dog chess set. (for playing on a rainy day - the opening has to be a CATalan...)



Regarding Stewart's post. chessbase did an article about chess in tv adverts in 2014 with about 20 vids (some do not work) Again cats feature as does a cow. (playing the Moo-ra gambit...)

https://en.chessbase.com/post/chess-in-tv-commercials

[Tim Spanton]

The latest edition of Private Eye has a Boris Johnson chess set

[Chris Rice]

[Tim Spanton]

From Through The Heart Of Patagonia by Hesketh Hesketh-Prichard (first published in New York in 1902 - I have a modern reprint): "The gorge below us was a chessboard of small-looking round folds set in the bases of the higher hills and hummocks."

[Stewart Reuben]

New film Marlowe Premiered on Sky Cinema 17 March
Marlowe gets up and one of his first acts is to look at a chess board, set in the middle of a game. He makes a move. There is no opponent present.

This is presumably the usual, this man is clever, conveyed rapidly. There is nothing about chess later in the film.

[Mike Gunn]

There are several references to chess in Raymond Chandler's novels, of course. Here is one:

"It was night. I went home and put my old house clothes on and set the chessmen out and mixed a drink and played over another Capablanca. It went forty-nine moves. Beautiful and remorseless chess, almost creepy in its silent implacability.
When it was done I listened at the open window for a while and smelled the night. Then I carried my glass out to the kitchen, and rinsed it and filled it with ice water and stood at the sink sipping it and looking at my face in the mirror.
"You and Capablanca," I said."

(from "The High Window", the narrator is Philip Marlowe.)

[Neill Cooper]

Today's BBC Radio 4 profile of Rachel Reeves not surprisingly mentioned her chess background.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001k7lw
"Shadow chancellor and former economist, who was a national chess champion aged 14."

[Tim Spanton]

Evening Standard crossword clue:
Board game (5)

[Nick Ivell]

Interesting how chess-playing MPs tend to be Labour. Reeves, the Eagle twins...

Even Brian Walden, though he turned out to be more Thatcherite than most Tories!

[Matt Bridgeman]

Rachel Reeves talking currently on Sky News about the Solidarity match. Probably they’ll be a recording afterwards. Touched on Volokitin now being a refugee in Poland with his family, Shohreh Bayat and her experiences with Iran, Reeves as a junior playing from the age of 7, Malcolm Pein and Chess in Schools, before moving on to other political matters.

Reeves seemed very on side with chess and it’s benefits for children. With the political landscape looking to radically change next year, you’d wonder if we might be hearing a lot more from Chess in Schools.