Will be very interested to see her comments.Stewart Reuben wrote:Jonathan Bryant.
I have communicated with Dr Jana Bellin. She is willing to prepare a considered comment on the interesting matter of chess and seniors, people with Alzheimer's and so on.
But she is very busy and it will not be for 6-8 weeks.
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"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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Stewart Reuben wrote:Jonathan Bryant.
I have communicated with Dr Jana Bellin. She is willing to prepare a considered comment on the interesting matter of chess and seniors, people with Alzheimer's and so on.
But she is very busy and it will not be for 6-8 weeks.
Thank you Stewart. I’d certainly wait a month or two for a considered opinion than to read something tossed off in a couple of minutes by somebody who neither knows nor cares what they’re talking about.
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Sunday Times Magazine 5 October. Section called Relative Values. Photographer David Bailey talking abut his relationship with his sons Fenton and Sascha.
'I'm not very good at kids, so when I did see the boys we didn't do much. But I did teach them to play chess which I learnt in the Air Force. Once you know chess, you don't need all that education b******s. Chess tells you everything you need to know about life. Fenton's really good now; both he and Sascha can beat me.'
'I'm not very good at kids, so when I did see the boys we didn't do much. But I did teach them to play chess which I learnt in the Air Force. Once you know chess, you don't need all that education b******s. Chess tells you everything you need to know about life. Fenton's really good now; both he and Sascha can beat me.'
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Mercifully no mention of chess this time, but THIS CASE seems to have edged its way forward. Doubtless more, much more, to come before we can put it behind us
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No direct mention of chess, but http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014 ... pen-letter comments on the more general issue of "brain games" and the reliability of claims made on their behalf.
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Yes, I was going to post this link too. Speaking as a University biomedical scientist, my received view is that (in general) the evidence that 'cognitive puzzles' slow cognitive decline in ageing is fairly thin, though there have been some sporadically hopeful results. What I had also gathered from talking to my medical friends was that staying as physically active and fit as possible was probably likely to be more use. Still, I routinely tell my mother (just turned 77), both to stay physically active (walking and gardening...) and to keep doing the Sudoku and crosswords.Roger de Coverly wrote:No direct mention of chess, but http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014 ... pen-letter comments on the more general issue of "brain games" and the reliability of claims made on their behalf.
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Excellent advice, of course.AustinElliott wrote:Still, I routinely tell my mother (just turned 77), both to stay physically active (walking and gardening...) and to keep doing the Sudoku and crosswords.
But your mother lets you tell her what to do? Mine still asks me if I’ve had a wee whenever I’m leaving her house.
As for
and now it applies to chess,AustinElliott wrote: Yes, I was going to post this link too. Speaking as a University biomedical scientist, my received view is that (in general) the evidence that 'cognitive puzzles' slow cognitive decline in ageing is fairly thin, though there have been some sporadically hopeful results ....
you will perhaps be aware that back in May Garry K tweeted,
(https://twitter.com/Kasparov63/status/4 ... 7845484544)
A challenge on the day - and a recent twitter exchange with Mig - has yet to elicit what these 'studies' are supposed to be.There are many studies showing positive effect of chess on delaying, improving dementia/Alzheimer's. Also good results with Down Syndrome.
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Interesting results when searching Chess on the new BBC website which has all the back issues of Radio Times: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
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Indeed. I noticed that and forgot to search for chess...Allan Hodgkinson wrote:Interesting results when searching Chess on the new BBC website which has all the back issues of Radio Times: genome.ch.bbc.co.uk
http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20? ... tt=00%3A00
Lots of memory lane stuff there for people who were around back in the 1950s.
"BBC Home Service
3 May
1952
23.03
Great Britain v. Norway
Black's twenty-seventh move
(Norway)
Close Down "
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Cripes.
CHESS
The Zonal Tournament in Madrid
A report by Jonathan Penrose and R. G. Wade
The Feminine Touch
Talk by Elaine Pritchard
Master r. Listeners
MASTER(White): Chennek Kottnauer LISTENERS (Black): Harry Golombek
Modern Masterpieces
Analyses of oustanding games played recently
1: Reshevsky-Pachman (Buenos Aires. 1960) discussed by C. H. O'D. Alexander
Busmen over the Board
.Anne Sunnucks interviews Tommy Baxter one of London Transport leading players
Master v. Listeners
MASTER (White) Chennek Kottnauer LISTENERS (Black) Harry Golombek
BLACK
And so on. More than 42 pages of results (I gave up looking at that point).
"How to Win at Chess"
BBC4 - 24 December 2009 2.10
Did anyone here see that one?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8lhp
(not currently available)
CHESS
The Zonal Tournament in Madrid
A report by Jonathan Penrose and R. G. Wade
The Feminine Touch
Talk by Elaine Pritchard
Master r. Listeners
MASTER(White): Chennek Kottnauer LISTENERS (Black): Harry Golombek
Modern Masterpieces
Analyses of oustanding games played recently
1: Reshevsky-Pachman (Buenos Aires. 1960) discussed by C. H. O'D. Alexander
Busmen over the Board
.Anne Sunnucks interviews Tommy Baxter one of London Transport leading players
Master v. Listeners
MASTER (White) Chennek Kottnauer LISTENERS (Black) Harry Golombek
BLACK
And so on. More than 42 pages of results (I gave up looking at that point).
"How to Win at Chess"
BBC4 - 24 December 2009 2.10
Did anyone here see that one?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00p8lhp
(not currently available)
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There are various consultation games, not least the well known one with Fischer and Barden. What I hadn't realised was that they got space in the Radio Times to print either or both of the moves so far or the FEN of the position. There's also consultation games between leading clubs, so there's Ilford and "Manchester" for example. The names of the participants are vaguely familiar as leading amateur players of the era.Christopher Kreuzer wrote: And so on. More than 42 pages of results (I gave up looking at that point).
Searching for "Master Game" brings up the entries you would expect. From the very first entry (on my search)
The very first Master Game appears to have been broadcast on 25th June 1975. The writer of the Radio Times promotion may have had one of Fischer's remarks in mind.'New' series The Master Game
A Chess Tournament
Presented by Jeremy James
' It's funny - I was sure he didn't know this opening ... played it a little slowly ... but he's playing the right ones. Now he's undermining these two advanced centre pawns of mine! '
WILLIAM HARTSTON , reigning Master Game Champion, analysing an opening by his opponent, brilliant 11-year-old player NIGEL SHORT .
Psychic Murder Ego Crushing
Instincts of a Killer
Expressions used to describe the most mentally demanding game known to man. This is a unique opportunity to eavesdrop on a confrontation of two minds -one trying to dominate and, if necessary, crush the other, in the first ever knockout chess tournament specially devised for television.
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British Chess News : britishchessnews.com
Twitter: @BritishChess
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/britishchess
Twitter: @BritishChess
Facebook: facebook.com/groups/britishchess
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Advertised in today's Time Out - Power and Principles from Moscow to Silicon Valley: An evening with Garry Kasparov and Ken Rogoff on 9 December in London.
which says:
which says:
Garry Kasparov is a world chess champion, an acclaimed speaker and author on decision-making and technology and a passionate advocate for human rights, especially in his native Russia. He will be interviewed by Harvard’s Ken Rogoff, former Chief Economist of the International Monetary Fund and himself a chess Grandmaster. Did chess prepare them for their later vocations?
Their conversation will follow Kasparov’s fascinating trajectory from a Soviet-bred chess champion to an outspoken critic of Vladimir Putin and an important thinker on human-machine collaboration and the principles of individual liberty.
Kasparov and Rogoff will delve into the true nature of Putin’s Russia and what it means for the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. Does the free world have a moral or pragmatic obligation to stand up to the Russian strongman? What does the answer to this question mean for the European Union?
Many of Kasparov’s recent writings and lectures have centered on what he calls a value shift away from risk and exploration in the world’s richest nations in recent decades, especially the U.S. He and Rogoff discuss what it means for the world when leading institutions are too big to fail and China becomes the world’s largest economy.
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I was surprised to see in El País just now:
Pablo Iglesias, from chess to the battleground of politics
which claims that the spokesperson of Podemos "likes to talk about Game of Thrones, chess and basketball".
First I've heard of it.
Pablo Iglesias, from chess to the battleground of politics
which claims that the spokesperson of Podemos "likes to talk about Game of Thrones, chess and basketball".
First I've heard of it.
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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Stumbled across this mention of Yang-Fan Zhou:
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-imp ... n-chess-15
http://www.businessinsider.com/most-imp ... n-chess-15