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Succeeded by a Boris Well done everybody. Special mention to those who found a way to show they had found the answer without actually giving it. For a chess appropriate prize reward yourself by watching one of Danny King's Powerplaychess videos on youtube. He did a series on Fischer's games includi...

Yes 1984, thanks Mick. Think I'm not supposed to edit my original post, so will leave anyone interested to read on.

Another sequence tonight :) But it's a rook, not a castle! Petrosian one of the clues on last night's episode Only Connect Series 16 episode 24. This was a nice question. From memory, what connects: John McEnroe Wimbledon winner 1980 World chess champion Tigran Petrosian Mikhail Gorbachev Soviet Pr...

University Challenge Xmas 2020 series episode 4. No-one could identify the word in chess for the the same piece attacking 2 or more enemy pieces at once. No Oxbridge representation I hope. (https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000qry7 ) Nottingham v Sheffield. Older alumni. I recognised Michael Deacon...

University Challenge Xmas 2020 series episode 4. No-one could identify the word in chess for the the same piece attacking 2 or more enemy pieces at once.

I have read that the games were selected by Bruce Pandolfini and Garry Kasparov. I know of two of the games: - Ivanchuk - Wolff, Biel iz, 1995 - Jakovenko - Stellwagen, Hoogovens, 2007, where Beth played 40. h5!! a winning improvement on the game I would dearly love to discover the sources of the o...

A lot of statistics and analysis of female participation in chess in different countries, summarized by a strong player:

https://www.davidsmerdon.com/?p=2075

JustinHorton wrote: ↑

Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:48 pm

Some artworks

Exceptionally fine.

A gifted man.

Cryptic crossword (at a glance the clues are far easier than the examples here), in the free sample of Chess magazine for December at: https://chess.co.uk/collections/chess-magazine/products/chess-magazine-december-2020 The solution is given on the following page in the download. You may want to lea...

Ian Aird on the chessscotland web site mentions 'The US Chess Federation have made the latest Chess Life magazine (November 2020) available as a free pdf download on their website'. A lot of detail on Netflix's Queen's Gambit, Jacob Aagard on using engines, etc. https://new.uschess.org/sites/default...

Interesting discussion with Jonathan Rowson: https://en.chessbase.com/post/jonathan- ... n-s-gambit

He has also created a 35 minute video which I haven't watched yet: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XfcP-pyfw2s

Maths and Chess Is it really true that ability in mathematics and chess are somehow linked? Tim Harford pits his wits against a math-professor-turned-professional-chess-player, John Nunn. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02mvyjb A transcript at: https://chess24.com/en/read/news/john-nunn-on-maths-c...

Today's Daily Telegraph Review section has a chess quiz - Read online. Many people couldn't get their papers today due to XR action. Link, please? Not able to provide link. DT preferred access via subscribing at https://www.telegraph.co.uk My library provides access using the Pressreader app ( http...

Today's Daily Telegraph Review section has a chess quiz

- Read online. Many people couldn't get their papers today due to XR action.

Today's Daily Telegraph Review section has a chess quiz 'And that's checkmate'. Nicely put together, 3 sections matching the 6 given answers with the questions. 6 book titles to match with their authors (disappointingly including The Castle and The Good Soldier along with 'chess' related titles such...