Sam Shankland......

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Sam Shankland......

Post by Steven DuCharme » Fri Mar 10, 2017 2:40 am

is on the new FOX reality show Kicking and Screaming. It airs Thursdays at 9PM Eastern/8PM Central.
I float like a pawn island and sting like an ignored knight :mrgreen:

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Re: Sam Shankland......

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sat Mar 11, 2017 1:45 am

a lifted post from another site posted 3 days ago.

"His restaurant, Sammy's Gilded Pawn in Detroit MI, was recently featured in an episode of Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA.
It featured a bout of fisticuffs between Ramsay and Shankland which was won rapidly by Ramsay."

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Re: Sam Shankland......

Post by JustinHorton » Sat Mar 11, 2017 7:06 pm

....though a Google search for "Gilded Pawn" restaurant produces no hits, nor does a search for any reference to this Ramsay v Shankland ruck. Are there any actual sources?
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Re: Sam Shankland......

Post by James Coleman » Sat Mar 11, 2017 10:42 pm

Pretty sure Geoff was just trying to be funny. It's got nothing to do with Ramsay or cooking. I've just watched the first episode. Was all right but I wouldn't watch it again. There's a bit about it on Chessbase news.

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Re: Sam Shankland......

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sun Mar 12, 2017 1:08 am

Hi James,

I posted in good faith, I don't watch cookery programmes, the source poster is usually good,
I think he got mixed up somewhere. Sorry about that. Here is the misleading link.

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/kibitzin ... &reply=134

A picture of Sam from the reality show (I don't watch those either)

https://en.chessbase.com/post/sam-shank ... ality-show

Sam is about 3rd or 4th picture further down.

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I've discovered a postcard from Capablanca written to Alekhine.

http://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-blog/th ... blanca.353

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Re: Sam Shankland......

Post by Steven DuCharme » Fri Mar 17, 2017 2:16 am

Sam blundered in the elimination challenge thus ending his adventure.
I float like a pawn island and sting like an ignored knight :mrgreen:

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