The Chess Traveller

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Neil Graham
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The Chess Traveller

Post by Neil Graham » Thu Jun 22, 2017 3:11 pm

This gentleman is appearing in Nottingham next month :-

http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/ ... -the-road/

http://www.petermortimer.co.uk/

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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:12 pm

As far as I can tell his book hasn't actually been published yet, which is odd if he's arranging promotional events.
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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by David Robertson » Thu Jun 22, 2017 9:19 pm

Presumably he ends his travels in Barking

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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by Nick Grey » Thu Jun 22, 2017 10:19 pm

Neil, get your Notts team out to play him. I expect a weak player as not on the ECF list.

Not expecting him to default with a book to sell and due to be published in 2017.

Looks a bit further south than his travels on his latest publication.

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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by Geoff Chandler » Fri Jun 23, 2017 12:17 am

Sounds like it might be a good read. A chess player ( to me we are equal whether
or not we appear on the ECF grading list) meeting others chess players for friendly games.

I wonder if it will have any game scores in it. Some history on the lad I've picked up.

Peter Mortimer is also the author of three "extreme" books. In 1987, his book The Last of The Hunters,
detailing his six months working as a fisherman in the North Sea, was published by North Tyneside Arts & Libraries,
and was republished last year by Five Leaves Press.

Broke Through Britain - One Man's Penniless Odyssey was published in 1999 by Mainstream and details the author's 540 mile
journey from Plymouth to Edinburgh without a penny in his pocket. It is already in its fifth print, and has been serialised world-wide.

It was followed in 2002 by 100 Days on Holy Island - A Writer's Exile (also from Mainstream), which has already gone to a second print. This
chronicles one winter spent on the remote island off the Northumbrian coast (also known as Lindisfarne) which is cut off twice daily by the tide.

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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by Matthew Turner » Fri Jun 23, 2017 8:17 am

He might well be the chap with this grading code 143344B
At 140, or so, he is a reasonable player, but it looks like he didn't get the opportunity to play that much, perhaps because he was penniless?
I think I'd be open-minded on this one.

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Re: The Chess Traveller

Post by Christopher Dunworth » Thu Jul 20, 2017 7:32 pm

Neil Graham wrote:This gentleman is appearing in Nottingham next month :-

http://fiveleavesbookshop.co.uk/events/ ... -the-road/

http://www.petermortimer.co.uk/
Decent turnout last night, well supported by local chessplayers from Notts.

Peter commented that it was by far the highest percentage of regular chessplayers of any of his presentations.

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