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The Essex County Association Lightning Championship will be taking place in June 2019. Does anybody know of any other lightning tournaments? Lightnig chess is where a buzzer used to go and a move had to be made every 10 seconds, It was also sometimes played every 5 seconds, or perhaps just for the ...

From the Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 15 September 1971

We all make mistakes - that's why they put rubbers on the ends of pencils.

The arrival in London of De la Bourdonnais is announced in the Morning Post of Saturday 28 June 1834 and Bell's Life in London of Sunday 29 June 1834. I doubt they would have waited three weeks if he'd already started to play games in town.

The answer to my Quiz Question is unsurprisingly, Dominic Lawson. You can read the whole thing here https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/commentators/dominic-lawson/dominic-lawson-this-poverty-debate-is-fuelled-by-anger-at-the-rich-not-sympathy-for-the-poor-5331394.html but you'll need a strong stom...

I've now listened to Lawson's reply and he spends little or no time on the the real causes of poverty, but spends his most of his answer criticising the poor for gambling, smoking and drinking. We've had to listen to this nonsense ever since the nineteenth century. Some people might like chess to b...

Maybe just tell us the opinion you have in mind? I thought that Justin might agree that reducing the maximum stake on fixed odds betting terminals to £2 was desirable. As for the contributors to Twitter above, if there had been no problem previously, then the change wouldn't have been necessary. It...

Do these views on Twitter represent what Lawson had to say?

Two more games [Event "Hastings 4748 Major C"] [Site "Hastings"] [Date "1947.12.30"] [Round "2"] [White "Swinnerton-Dyer, H. Peter"] [Black "Broome, W."] [Result "1-0"] [ECO "C64"] [Opening "Ruy Lopez: classical (Cordel) defence"] 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bb5 Bc5 4. O-O Nge7 5. c3 d6 6. d4 exd4 7. cxd...

His father was President of the British Chess Federation between 1956 and 1958. Here he is with another famous figure from the past.

From The Chess Player's Magazine. v.4 (1866) page 257 'Nor will it do so until the following axiom, in the truth of which all masters of Chess are convinced, receives general acceptation, and that axiom is, that Chess is for the mind what gymnastics are for the body .' The article is unsigned. Corre...

Do you have this book or the Deutsche Schachzeitung source? William Steinitz, Chess Champion: A Biography of the Bohemian Caesar https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JNITAQAAIAAJ Kurt Landsberger, ‎Andy Soltis - 2006 - ‎Snippet view - ‎More editions In November 1885, Mr. H. Bennecke, the chess editor...

I have subsequently found the following report from the Daily News - 06 April 1905.

My post was prompted by

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/inde ... ad_bishops

Scroll down to Item 11050. "Tom Driberg and John Rety"

A rare photo of John Rety as a young man.