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An interview in today's Telegraph "Ultratravel" magazine with Lily James (Downton Abbey, War and Peace, Cinderella etc), talking of a trip to Hamilton Island, Australia, says,

"We had a villa that was really secluded, with beautiful views, and I played chess all day, read and sunbathed."

Ukrainian chess tournament ends… in a knock-out

A chess duel at a major competition in Ukraine evolved into a fist-fight after a coach became incensed by the way his pupil was being treated.

https://www.rt.com/news/337671-ukrainia ... ournament/

This might be true, but RT is not exactly a reliable source where Ukraine is concerned.

From ITV London News:

ITV London News wrote:For the past 16 years the Carnegie Library has hosted a chess club run by Edward Ochagavia, a survivor of the Nazi siege of Stalingrad in 1942.

"I'm a very old man. I survived the Stalingrad battle in 1942, but at the moment I can't survive the Lambeth Council closure of the Carnegie Library."

– EDWARD OCHAGAVIA, CHESS CLUB FOUNDER"

(Lambeth Council is closing Carnegie Library in Herne Hill. It will reopen in 2017 as a gym with token self-service library.)

A recent episode of sci fi series EXTANT starring Halle Berry was titled Zugswang and featured a code hidden with a chess game

New York Times

Many world-class chess players are simply not cut out for the nonstop self-promotion that celebrity culture demands.

I was wondering whether the FIDE President would feature in the Panama revelations.

No, or not yet, but the 1972 Champion gets a mention.

http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/ap ... ings-stars

The slightly suspect nature of his 1992 Serbian prize money presumably contributed to the use of a complex structure designed to maintain secrecy.

Former BCF/ECF sponsor, Smith & Williamson, gets a name check, not for chess, but for involvement with the Blairmore fund run by Cameron senior and others.

There is a programme about the Polgar sisters on Radio 4 Extra at 11.15am today.

How four men survived as hostages of IS: 'We played chess a lot'. Harrowing stuff. Chess is obviously only a small part of the story.

Ian Kingston wrote:How four men survived as hostages of IS: 'We played chess a lot'. Harrowing stuff. Chess is obviously only a small part of the story.

Thanks for that Ian

chess, with pieces fashioned from cheese cartons with nail clippers

Puts everything into context really

An electrician who worked with Stanley Kubrick on The Shining:

We played chess now and then. He’d slaughter me.

"It's a chess match so far" BT Sport commentator after 25 minutes of Man City v Real Madrid.

LawrenceCooper wrote:"It's a chess match so far" BT Sport commentator after 25 minutes of Man City v Real Madrid.

Standard football code for "it's still 0-0"

But what would have to happen in a game of chess for us to say "it's like a game of football"?

Jonathan Rogers wrote: But what would have to happen in a game of chess for us to say "it's like a game of football"?

Either a biting incident or something to do with the arbiter.

Jonathan Rogers wrote:

LawrenceCooper wrote:"It's a chess match so far" BT Sport commentator after 25 minutes of Man City v Real Madrid.

Standard football code for "it's still 0-0"

But what would have to happen in a game of chess for us to say "it's like a game of football"?

The spectators chanting obscene slogans at the players, while officials try desperately but ineffectually to remove them from the playing area.