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Mariotti popped up last month on the island of Rhodes at the World Veterans Team Olympiad, where Italy actually finished quite highly. First time I saw him. re Mr T.K. Hemingway, another name which features in the cutting of Sweby´s from a Luton paper and whom I have not seen now in over thirty year...

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Just picking up on where the story goes.
Wasn´t ME began the thread, chief.
Was it?

When Rossi and the late Parfitt of Status Quo appeared playing for charity on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire? their first question was "How many knights are there on a chessboard at the start of the game?" And they did NOT say four. A new question was served them. And that they did answer correctly.

From essay to newspaper articles to book to Chichester stage to Radio interview to West End to...who knows where?

https://www.top10films.co.uk/53267-step ... hams-quiz/

I´ll say it. "A sick man is not to be pitied if he has a cure up his sleeve." Michel de Montaigne Schiller had the milder of diabetes two forms. I have taken injections for over forty years. O´Brien died in his sixties and had eye problems. Miles died of a heart attack at forty-six. Each was diabeti...

btw, one of my Phone A Friends, Bill Hartston, DID attend the play QUIZ during its West End Run. He voted them Guilty at the end of each act. He said to me that he thought audiences would have been more cynical had they had it presented to them that Ingram was later found guilty of another fraud. Bu...

Further to Martin Benjamin´s insisting that he did it, let me append TWO reviews. The first of our book, and from a guy who says he also thought only a fool could dispute Ingram´s guilt, and the second of the script of James Graham´s play, QUIZ - Amazon Customer 5.0 out of 5 stars Very well construc...

Adios amigo.

There´s a famous game of Heidenfeld´s - visible at Tim Krabbé´s site - where he castled on BOTH wings! In deference to comments made by several contributors to this thread, I once had published a letter in CHESS advocating that, in view especially of the reliance on opening theory in today´s game, a...

I´d like to see Nigey-Babe as top man!

But, frankly, I don´t fancy his chances of toppling the UFO abductee.

Still, stranger things have happened..

That book of ours, Kevin, has now inspired a West End play -

www.quiztheplay.com

Yes.
A cancer which also killed his brother some 18 months previous.

Proud to have worked with him.

New tip on how to become a millionaire, Bill... with a specificity at 2:14 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvaJdVaxyfs ...although he did not tell us how he, qua audience member, voted re Ingram´s guilt at the end of each act of the play QUIZ, did he?!

Sorry Bill.

But here is some practical advice on how to take a different take on what, to you, may have seemed sorted

https://twitter.com/QuizThePlay/status/ ... 7269164032