English Chess Forum

Ah, the naysayers, the cynics & doom-mongers, the faint-of-heart & fair weather friends, the doubters & traducers of Charles W Wood and His Manifest Eminence, Sir Gerald Walsh - you've all been wrong. The ECF Board has been in permanent session since December 16th discussing the matter. But I can now bring you concrete visual evidence of Holloid people hard at work producing our chess sets with state-of-the-art technology.

Two people working 8-hour shifts should be through the whole consignment in about seven weeks. Stand by your schools and be ready to receive your chess sets!!!!!!!!

Go!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Nwhu-_1YSeQ

David
Atticus CC

Shouts to Steve Connor, Atticus webmaster, for contacting Holloid about this

OK you have to laugh...

Surely there is some misunderstanding?

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwv-BnWm5o


PS Stewart Reuben appears in the opening few seconds; see if you can spot him!

And in a drastic new move to increase the profile of English chess and broaden its appeal to the general public, ECF council have just passed a motion that all simultaneous displays carried out by Accredited Coaches and titled players must be conducted in the following vein :

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=PdMzP3-P6rM

One of the employees drew the line at the inhuman rate of production.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WOcY-wWFLag