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From the Sunday Mirror - Sunday 07 November 1926, page 12


and

Sunday Mirror - Sunday 11 November 1928 page 23

There seems to be more in ...

Sicilian: lines with ... e5
T. D. Harding, P. R. Markland
B.T. Batsford, 1982

I wonder if Tim has the rest of the game.

I've posted in 'Not Chess' on this matter - see below.

One of Dominic Cummings' dwindling band of supporters is Ray Keene e.g Keene.png To see the company Mr Keene keeps, check out the far-right Vance here: https://resistinghate.org/david-vance-in-his-own-words/ https://www.hopenothate.org.uk/2020/04/17/covid-19-the-far-right-weekly-round-up-3/ https://...

When a chess player was famous enough to be name-checked in a advert in The Tatler.

Are you sure it was for the Civil Service, not Kent?

Here's a picture of Sultan Khan from 1932, featuring the future Rowena Bruce. Her board is smaller than the others - not because she was a child - but because she had brought her own to be autographed. Danny King reveals it is now owned by Garry Kasparov! Western Morning News - Thursday 27 October 1...

My hunch, and it is only a hunch, is that Captain King was Carslake Winter-Wood. He wrote chess columns under the pseudonyms "Queen's Knight" and ""King's Rook" and was a contributor to the 'Chess Amateur' magazine. Captain King was active from 1902-1913 and Carslake Winter-Wood lived from 1849–1924...

Book advertisement from The Ipswich Journal - Saturday 08 July 1727.

I got 12,851 hits for 'Housewife' in 1939 on the British Newspaper Archive.

From the 1939 Register For 60 Rodney House, Dolphin Square SW1

From Milner-Barry's memoir of Alexander:

"Here is an exhilarating specimen of the seldom-played “Greco Counter-Gambit," won by Black! It is fine to see players on the top board of an important Metropolitan match occasionally breaking through the present-day fashions in “Queen’s Pawn” (etc.) openings, and producing such a fighting and livel...

That is precisely his point. The deaths will be as high with the lockdown as without. This is precisely why his point is wrong. Without the lockdown, the number of infections, hospitalisations and deaths would not be peaking but still rising exponentially. We would have far, far more than 40,000 de...

Perry's Bankrupt Gazette - Saturday 01 October 1859 has

Mucklow Thomas Percival, chemist and druggist, Great William st, Caledonian-rd, Islington

A couple of observations on the summary of the UnHerd interview. The actual fatality rate of Covid-19 is the region of 0.1% At least 50% of the population of both the UK and Sweden will be shown to have already had the disease when mass antibody testing becomes available. To achieve (Un?)Herd immun...