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Another - not too bad - Magnus story

https://slate.com/culture/2020/02/magnu ... utube.html

Was this inspired by a recent article which asked, "Did Shakespeare play chess?"

Here's an old item from The Westminster Gazette - Tuesday 18 April 1911, which doesn't count as history...

These clubs played the following two games by correspondence in 1873. They don't seem to have been published elsewhere. No details were given of the players involved. [Event "Bombay CC vs Calcutta CC"] [Site "Correspondence"] [Date "1873"] [Round "?"] [White "Calcutta"] [Black "Bombay"] [Result "1-0...

Jonathan Rowson has hit back at Justin Horton on Twitter thus: Jonathan Rowson @Jonathan_Rowson Dec 21 A negative review! Some factual errors already spotted. All survived copyediting & fact checking -it happens. But single lines presented incredulously out of context & no curiosity towards author i...

Fingers crossed...

From an interview with Jonathan Rowson in the Irish Times https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/there-s-no-meaning-of-life-now-happy-christmas-1.4106925?mode=amp where he says: Christmas means is that, in our own bizarrely human way, we are caught up in an outbreak of mattering, and that always matters...

While looking at John Saunders' latest update of Britbase, I came across this splendid game played by the veteran folk-singer Leon Rosselson in the British Junior Championships. [Event "BCF-chJ"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1952.04.?? "] [Round "?"] [White "Rosselson, Leon "] [Black "Fuller, Ronald A"]...

Another Crown game from Hastings 1946/47 [Event "Hastings 46/47 Premier Reserves 'B'"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1947.01.??"] [Round "?"] [White "Crown, Gordon Thomas"] [Black "Wenman, Francis Percival"] [Result "1-0"] 1. e4 Nf6 2. e5 Nd5 3. d4 d6 4. Nf3 Bf5 5. Bd3 Bxd3 6. Qxd3 Nc6 7. c4 Ndb4 8. Qb3 ...

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 11, 2019 12:17 pm

Hippish?

Definition of hippish. : characterized by or suffering from worry, depression, or hypochondia : hipped.
Hippish | Definition of Hippish by Merriam-Webster

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 10, 2019 11:43 pm

Oh, how interesting, I always thought misnomer was an American term.

Here's an early example from Saunders's News-Letter, Thursday 14 January 1779 - and a joke which is still funny!

From Jackson's Oxford Journal November 22, 1911.

Just look who was the Henry Ford of chess history...

John Clarke wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 6:53 pm

Gerard Killoran wrote: ↑

Sat Dec 07, 2019 12:45 pm

Which top player once said, "chess history was nothing but fiction. and was not of any practical utility."?

Staunton? The phrase "practical utility" has something of old Howard's pomposity about it. (Why not simply say "practical use"?)

Not Staunton either.

John Townsend wrote: ↑

Mon Dec 09, 2019 12:26 pm

Steinitz?

Closer than Short, but no.