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Why is Petrosian "mysterious"? Petrosian and Kasparov didn't give the impression they were mad.

JustinHorton wrote:

Christopher Kreuzer wrote:

Matthew Turner wrote:Perhaps not particularly surprising or interesting

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05 ... pion-anat/

Complete with the obligatory(?) 'Five men mad about the game' feature at the bottom (which for some reason names Paul Morphy as a World Champion - that should really only be done with the caveat 'unofficial').

Leon Watson tells me on Twitter that he didn't write that bit!

The Brave New World of social media where you can prompt journalists to correct their articles in near real-time...

Kevin Thurlow wrote:Why is Petrosian "mysterious"? Petrosian and Kasparov didn't give the impression they were mad.

But they played chess!

... Complete with the obligatory(?) 'Five men mad about the game' feature at the bottom (which for some reason names Paul Morphy as a World Champion - that should really only be done with the caveat 'unofficial').

Perhaps any caveat should include -

... on his return to America in May, 1859... not long afterward, and having issued, without response, a final challenge offering to yield the odds of pawn and move to any player in the world, he declared his career as a chessplayer finally and definitely closed - a declaration to which he held with unbroken resolution during the whole of the remainder of his life. (Charles de Maurian's Obituary of Paul Morphy, The New Orleans Times-Democrat, Sunday, July 13th, 1884.)

Cardinals bonding over chess in clubhouse

Matheny had three chess boards installed for the team in April

http://m.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article ... r-together

Carlsen interview

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/ ... y-karjakin

It manages to avoid the dubious claim as to the number of chess players in the world.

...but not a couple of dubious claims about the chessboxing freak show.

Roger de Coverly wrote:Carlsen interview

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/ ... y-karjakin

It manages to avoid the dubious claim as to the number of chess players in the world.

But a similar claim is made here:

http://en.chessbase.com/post/grand-ches ... in-belgium

The closing frame of the video uses the 500 million statistic (it is a very nice video apart from that).

Counterbalance:

http://streathambrixtonchess.blogspot.c ... f-fun.html

I am told there is a program at 11 am today on Radio 4 about chess, called Checkmate me in St Louis:crossing continents
By David Edmonds, co author of Bobby Fischer goes to war.

"I am told there is a program at 11 am today on Radio 4 about chess"

You probably read it on this forum!

David Edmonds also has an article out as part of the BBC Magazine section:

Creating the world's new chess capital

I believe that is Edmonds at the top in the first picture?

The radio programme mentioned above can be heard here after broadcast:

Checkmate Me in St Louis (BBC Radio 4, 28 minutes)

Part of the 'Crossing Continents' strand of programming.

Kevin Thurlow wrote:"I am told there is a program at 11 am today on Radio 4 about chess"

You probably read it on this forum!

Actually, I got an email from someone who was at school with David Edmonds

Interesting programme, but I felt it was the sort of programme that would have benefited from being filmed and shown on T.V. instead of radio.

There was an interesting analogy on Sky Sports talking about the swap of Kvyat and Verstappen in Formula 1.

"It's like a game of chess where the king has sacrificed the Knight for a Bishop."

Presumably a reference to en passant would have been too esoteric.