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A good article by Ray Keene. I was unfamiliar with two of the anecdotes. It is now 2am.
https://www.thearticle.com/chess-smokescreens

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Picture of a small Child playing chess on a correCtly configured board. He has played 1 d4. It is a robot's hand you see about to respond.

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Matt >That looks like the sort of baloney "rumour" the likes of Lev "nuke the USSR" Alburt was fond of back in the day.

I took Lev Alburt, Gennadi Sosonko and others to see 'Chess, the Musical' in 1986. They were scathing about the plot line that anybody would return to the Soviet Union having left.

Surely, had the USSR contemplated murdering Korchnoi, they would have done so BEFORE he became a serious threat in the 1978 match. Possibly Campo was paid by the USSR and they did this by making him an agent. Harry Golombek told me he was conversing with somebody. The man kept on saying of one perso...

Making chessmen and chess boards
Is that not sexist? Should the thread not be Making chess pieces and chess boards

The last two rounds of the WORLD SENIOR TEAM CHMPIONSHIPs in Prague have been camcelled. The prizegiving will be held tonight at 10pm; the results depending on the first 7 rounds.

TV ad for 'Compare the Market.com' had two meerkats, one playing chess.

ALAN Whitbread

A query has come through about this player who was active in the 1960s. He died recently. He was one of the founders of King' Head Chess Club.

Andrew Walker of the ECF is trying to pull the strands together.

Tony should have a formal obituary on the ECF site. I am rather busy currently. Can anybody else do the honours?

I have now written a brief formal obituary about Tony for the ECF website. No photo is included.

Association of Chess Professionals (secretary@chessprofessionals.org) To:you Details In the light of the current global outbreak of the coronavirus crisis and with the situation evolving on a daily basis ACP would like to express concern about the imminent organization of the Candidates Tournament i...

Soheil. Had you written My father is a hospital CEO in Shiraz, Iran, and he ordered the entire hospital to be sprayed with disinfectant 2 times a day. You can follow suit. That would probably have been better English.

I suppose it doesn't matter, if you are trying to see through such masks, but it seems to me it wasn't an 8x8 board with white on the right.

Justin - thank you for the alert.

My problem is that I am getting frightened of travelling by underground because of coronavirus. Goig by taxi would be expensive.
The same applies to the London Chess League.

NICK GREY
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