Chess: The Revenge of the Football Commentator

[Geoff Chandler]

For a kick off you can blame Stewart Reuben.

On the 2nd of June he posted in the 'Media comments on chess' thread.

"The statement that a football match was like a game of chess is very common.
Of course it is not. e.g. it is not a game of two halves."

So that inpsired me to cover a set of chess games with a football slant.

Be warned, some of you will wince, not at my attempts at humour (you always wince at that)
but at some of the moves. Never underestimate the power of the human brain.
Mates in one are shunned to allow a stalemates, won games are resigned and pieces
are lost in some of the most creative ways imaginable.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/blog/blogread ... postid=171

Next Week: Chess & Tennis. (Maybe not. I'm bound to end up in hot water with a 'New Balls' joke.)

[Arshad Ali]

You need to bring in some reference to the Maradona incident.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Arshad,

This will be the 'Hand of God.'
That was a bad refs/linemans decision in 1986. Part of the game.
20 years early a bad refs/linemans decision gave England a goal in the Wordl Cup final.
What goes around comes around.......even after 20 years.

I did give a Maradona Mate. (A family fork checkmate.)

[Arshad Ali]

This will be the 'Hand of God.

Yeah, I know. I was thinking that when Judit Polgar accused Kasparov of touching a piece, Kasparov could have said it was "the hand of God" -- or something like that.