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Staunton, H.: 6½ Park Place, Fulham Road [Chelsea], England (Copyright register, 23 June 1847, National Archives, COPY 3/4
perhaps he had a drawing room at this address ?

Chris,

These guys had a five game match

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I seems Lambert had a habit of believing his opponents. In the Lord John Cup 1977 Vs Alexander Kotov (as White) pressured Glenn Lambert to resign in what was in fact a drawable position. Lambert, being relatively inexperienced at top international level, took Kotov’s word for it and resigned, only t...

A Chess themed show at the Edinburgh fringe August 2025 The Silly William Gambit Venue: theSpace @ Surgeons Hall, Theatre 1 Dates: 1–23 August 2025 (not 10, 17) My review As a chess player, I was immediately drawn to Matt Bader’s Silly William gambit , a surreal, rapid-fire blend of comedy, chess le...

Hi Kevin , I asked it create a poem in the style of "under milk wood" D Thomas. here's a Sylvia Plath version, which also seems to works quite well ! St George’s Hall, First Round The hall is a vault. Light hisses on marble. The boards lie flat like hospital beds. Tick. Tick. The clocks breathe like...

In an idle moment I asked Chat Gpt (AI ) to come with a poem for the British championship , I provided a rough outline . . By the Mersey, with Kings and Pawns Liverpool wakes for the British Chess Championship Begin in the dark hush before ferry-horn and first move, when the Mersey laps like a sleep...

"The Gorge" — a Netflix original film — stars Miles Teller, Anya Taylor-Joy (renowned for The Queen’s Gambit), and Sigourney Weaver. This rather silly story follows two elite snipers assigned to opposite sides of a mysterious gorge, tasked with guarding it without knowing what lies within. As tensio...

Looking forward to a new series of Foundation (asimov) starts on Friday apple tv , the last episode of series two contains a scene where they discuss that the "gambit" won, and the King (empire) is " castled " through an airlock into space . I would be curious to know if such chess references were i...

The security measures seemed excessive, with long queues developing every day . Every player was subjected to a full-body scan—not only were we scanned from head to toe, but we were also expected to spin around ! . The pens were taken away immediately after each game. I wonder if they were sanitized...

Chief arbiter Alex Holowczak kicks Magnus out ,for wearing £1000 jeans , thats Magnus the ex model for clothing brand G-Star, Magnus the Ex Champion, Magnus successful chess businessman. Are we are witnessing the decline and fall of Fide.? Fide seems so out of touch and insensitive to the needs of t...

congratulations , to Demis the man who also solved chess!, we played for the CYMA chess club once in a lifetime long ago Quote The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize · 1h This year’s chemistry laureates Demis Hassabis and John Jumper have developed an AI model, AlphaFold2, to solve a 50-year-old problem: predi...

Well done Peter , nice event!

using deepl to translate you get a much better result . And Black is saved by the move 1. ... Kd2. If now 2. a4, then 2.... f5, 3. Kd4 and now not 3....f4 and the pawn falls, but 3.... Ke2 and after 4. Ke5 (4. a5 is answered with f4 etc. with a change of move or simultaneous pawn conversion) 4....Ke...

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