English Chess Forum

There is an interview with Rowson discussing his book at the Perpetual chess podcast site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1L20i3PiZVc Having only read a few chapters of his The Moves that Matter so far, I will limit my comments to: His earlier works provoked sharp disagreements before (I think) a g...

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/aug/17/buy-a-classic-guardian-photograph-szechenyi-baths-budapest-august-2006 £50 will buy you a print of a group of Hungarian seniors playing in an outside pool. "Guardian photographer David Levene … captured the players’ concentration, their leathered,...

Some nice videos at the Chessbase India YouTube site ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIsEhwBMPkRHsEgqYAPQHsA/videos ) by the indefatigable Sagar Shah. A video of a specially created handmade chess set. Sagar was too polite to tell the Distillery boss that the board was the wrong way round and Kin...

The One Show 1.5.19 ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0004ptw/the-one-show-01052019 ) at 53.21 Shreyas Royal and his family on their battle to be allowed to stay in the UK. Rachel Reeves appears - she wrote to the Home Secretary. Also on the iplayer at https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0...

Countdown today 11.4.19 ( at https://www.channel4.com/programmes/cou ... /68258-020 - needs free registration to watch).

India Owens says she is taking break from professional chess while attending Southampton University. (2.07 mins)

A very accessible video on this by Numberphile is at: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Km024eldY1A It explains how Shannon estimated the figure based on a rough average of 30 legal plies (half moves) in a typical middlegame position. Another mathematician Hardy had a larger estimate but didn't give his...

Thank you to everyone who posted a reply: Christopher, Mark and Gerard.

Sorry - zeros blindness

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chess_endgame#CITEREFM.C3.BCllerLamprecht2001 Müller & Lamprecht 2001 based on Chessbase Mega Database 2001 with 1,687,182 games. This says bishop & knight v king occurs in .02% of games (think there may have been pawns present additionally - probably accompanying the...

Yes, ULU was the University of London Union - google tells me it is now called Student Central.

They used to run clubs for all/most London University Colleges.

Does anyone remember who ran the ULU Chess Club 1988-89 - probably for many years either side of this.

Think he could have been Mike - but no idea of surname.

Not really Chess history but Chess related, and it is in the past !

Recent history: a video about the child players in the 1990 u14 world chess championship, with follow up video from 20 years later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zL9Y4KznQFU Few minutes of Denker; Benko and Minev taking over the adjournment analysis of a young Naur. Follow up video is more thought...

Couldn't find any in Oxford Encyclopedia of Chess Games, only 1 irrelevant game in Fritz 14 database.
Probably not relevant to search but 4 videos uploaded recently by Mato Jelic on Jerome Gambit, e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lRHuIJPXLE

Re Stuart Rueben CHESS IN PARKHURST PRISON

http://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/phelan.html has full details about a felon's life including chess in Parkhurst.

http://en.chessbase.com/post/chessbase- ... erything-2

With time zones etc.may run later than expected.