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Not directly for me, but I can always get to it via a web proxy. For example, navigate to http://www.uk-proxy.co.uk/ and enter www.chessgames.com and it will forward you to the site. First connection is a bit slow, but it's not too bad after that. (Incidentally, I'm not endorsing www.uk-proxy.co.uk ...

I am another who is on BT broadband (in its PlusNet manifestation) and cannot get to www.chessgames.com. However, I can get to it from the same desktop when I use a VPN, which obviously uses different routers and gives you a different IP Address. Perhaps VPN is also an option for other people who ar...

NickFaulks wrote: ↑

Mon Jun 08, 2020 10:06 pm

Thanks, I did not expect such an explicit answer.

I thought as much, but I found that I was interested in the answer to your question so I looked it up!

45 of its 101 pages are devoted to the King's Gambit How does it assess the Muzio? "We could very easily, and in an interesting manner, fill up this little volume with a treatise on the Muzio Gambit, and even then, perhaps, we should not have said the last word. For our own part, we should just as ...

The Chess Openings by Gunsberg. My copy was published in 1920, though I believe it is basically a reprint of a much earlier version from around 1895. It is a pocket-size book with a tabular layout similar to MCO. 45 of its 101 pages are devoted to the King's Gambit, whereas all openings beginning 1 ...

The game is Nicholson-Basman played in 1974, and is in the January 1975 edition of Chess. "Danger: this game could cause permanent brain damage" is the only annotation to the game, which began 1 e4 e6 2 d4 Ne7

Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑

Thu Mar 19, 2020 8:34 pm

I seem to remember an old disaster movie, where the world was doomed, then it rained and it solved the problem. Maybe an early appearance for Christopher Lee?

Night of the Big Heat which indeed starred Christopher Lee.

That's interesting - in 1978 the Greeks were still in the final days of the demotic v katharevousa issue (basically whether to use the ordinary everyday modern Greek or to try and "clean" it back to the proper Greek of old). The attempt was officially abandonned in 1976, but still lingered in place...

My (not very comprehensive) Modern Greek dictionary gives σφυρα as both a feminine word for hammer and neuter plural for ankles (distinguishable by a difference in where the stress is). Rather puzzlingly it does not list the singular form for ankle, that would be σφυρο(ν) [the final ν (n) is now fr...

That's an interesting article you linked to, John. I must admit that I doubt that I would have got the answer however much time I had. The same newspaper article that contained the quote mentions McDonnell playing 1...Nf6 as Black (perhaps I should say "the second player") and continuing with 1.e4 N...

I'll try the eponymous player of the other Bishop's pawn then - Henry Bird?

I would guess Howard Staunton, on the grounds that he often began with the Queen's Bishop pawn.

It's slightly weird. As has already been pointed out the piece images are giving 403 errors but if you access them directly in then address bar with https then they work fine (eg https://www.saund.co.uk/pgn4web-3.03/images/merida/36/bk.png ). The first complaint on the https page is about the twitte...

For the record, my copy of the OED (published 1979, copyright 1971) has this statement regarding the derivation of the chess sense of rook: "The ultimate source is the Pers. rukh , the original sense of which is doubtful". I don't have access to the 1752 edition, for the good reasons already mention...

Did he order Falk beer over the counter?