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- Tue Mar 26, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Re: Young Authors
Good find. Unaware of that.
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Re: Young Authors
To put the above into context let us not forget that Ray Keene during the gap between Dulwich College and Cambridge Ray (aged 18) wrote his first (and one of his best) book : Flank Openings : Would that make Keene the first teenager to write a book on chess? 5098501._SY475_.jpg I would argue that i...
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 6:42 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Re: Young Authors
I'm not sure that would be the best selling point in today's world!
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 11:51 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Re: Young Authors
Are we sure he actually wrote it?Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑Mon Mar 25, 2024 10:18 amThe Youngest Chess Grandmaster in the World: The Chess Adventures of Abhimanyu Mishra Aged 12 years, 4 months. https://www.amazon.co.uk/youngest-grand ... B0BHJKXPB7
- Mon Mar 25, 2024 8:20 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Re: Young Authors
That is young indeed to be delivering publications.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:41 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Young Authors
- Replies: 13
- Views: 704
Young Authors
Hi, I just learnt that GM Daniel Naroditstky wrote Mastering Positional Chess when he was only 14. Is that a record in terms of a titled player producing literature at the youngest age? Have we had someone publish anything when they were younger than that?
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:53 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Changes to FIDE ratings.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 419
Re: Changes to FIDE ratings.
I found this, which helps somewhat.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 5:51 pm
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124342
Re: Chess history trivia
Yes, correct.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:29 am
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 848
Re: OGWT
I watched the documentary on Ready Steady Go and it was claimed that Top of the Pops was the BBC answer to it. Sounds about right.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 10:19 am
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 519
Re: Actors and Masters
The Great Chess Movie too, which has dozens of players in it.Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Sat Mar 23, 2024 9:35 pmI believe "Chess Fever" (1925) may count. It is fiction, but includes Capablanca as himself.
- Sun Mar 24, 2024 9:54 am
- Forum: Chess History
- Topic: Chess history trivia
- Replies: 1349
- Views: 124342
Re: Chess history trivia
Who, in 1937, was told by a jolly Communist Propaganda Department official in Kiev that his failure to participate regularly at chess events might be held against him and interpreted in a way that could be dangerous? And yes Soviet development appeared in print on our shores in more than one documen...
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:43 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 519
Re: Actors and Masters
And there's William Evans, founder of the gambit that Kasparov once destroyed Anand with here:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5703966/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5703966/?ref_=fn_al_nm_4
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 6:27 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 519
Re: Actors and Masters
Caught me by surprise to see a certain Michael Adams in it. He wasn't the most convincing baddie I have ever seen, and perhaps that's true over the board too!
- Sat Mar 23, 2024 4:22 pm
- Forum: General Chat
- Topic: Actors and Masters
- Replies: 10
- Views: 519
Actors and Masters
Greetings, I just watched the 80s flick Commando and was surprised to learn that a certain Michael Adams starred in the films as (Mike).
Are there any other GMs who share their name with actors and has a GM ever actually appeared in a film (not documentary) or perhaps tv series?
Are there any other GMs who share their name with actors and has a GM ever actually appeared in a film (not documentary) or perhaps tv series?
- Fri Mar 22, 2024 6:37 pm
- Forum: Not Chess!
- Topic: OGWT
- Replies: 26
- Views: 848
Re: OGWT
I found a BBC documentary about it on youtube, I shall have a look later, thanks.