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LOUIS VUITTON
A whole page ad in the Sunday Times news section. Two people are playing chess. The whole board is not visible. The only caption
VICTORY IS A STATE OF MIND
I presume i is the usual thing about chessplyers being discerning people - not cheats. I just don't understand the point of the ad.

Of course Toby McGuire was in the film as Bobby because it was his project. I think the title of the film, 'Pawn Sacrifice' was nonsense. I played some blitz games with Bill Lombardy in Reykjavik. He won all of them . I asked, 'Aren't you finding it boring?' He responded. 'No, I'm bored wih just bei...

Episode in FOYLE'S LAW called Broken Souls.
I saw the re-run of this epidode, virtually by chance, Tuesday evening on ITV3.
Foyle, a policeman, plays chess several times with a psychologist. It was not strictly relevant to the plot which wa a murder mytery. The series was set in the Second World War.

This aricle appeared in the New York Times. Publicity oher than bout cheating at chess! Why Correspondence Chess Is Still Popular Among Elite Players Players can take days or even weeks to take a turn, and they have embraced the use of software to find the best moves. A hand reaches for a black ches...

Paul McKeown >With the use of increments, and clocks set with move counters,<

I have never seen a chessclock with a move counter. It is always a push counter. There could be such clocks, attached to a digital board.

It is some years since I last met Anatoly Karpov (Tolya) but, in over 40 years, I never heard of his over-indulging in alcohol.
I very much doubt he was assaulted actually in the Duma. If he was found there, it is more likely there was an accident.

SAS ROGUE HEROES 30 October on BBC1

'Each man should be like a chess player that can move in any direction.'
This is onnly approximately what was said.

John Upham > What is a cheap protagonist? <
It is what is called technically 'a typo' - as you knew very well

DEVIL'S HOUR
On Amazon prime video. I have yet to see it. It starts today and I think there are 6 episodes.
There was a glowing review in today's Daily Tlegraph. It was accompanied by a photo showing the cheap protagonist studying a chess position.