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His story is the first on this podcast. It's around 20 minutes long:

https://podcasts.apple.com/my/podcast/t ... 5083864789

There was an interview with Judit Polgar on the BBC News channel at about 18.23 and, doubtless, at other points during the day.

I will leave you to guess the subject of the interview.

"The Queen's Gambit" breaks a Netflix record: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/queens-gambit-netflix-anya-taylor-joy-b1760801.html We watched and enjoyed "The Queen's Gambit" so the Netflix app recommended "The Crown" to us - the royal connection no doubt. "The Crown" is very...

Interview with Magnus Carlsen today's 'Guardian':

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/ ... on-netflix

Not so strange from the BBC:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/entertain ... s-54995676

This is currently no. 2 in the 'most watched' section of the BBC News website

No one seems to have mentioned this article in today's "Guardian" so I thought I would:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/ ... ens-gambit

For the second week in a row chess.com's servers were restarted at 11 o'clock today (Friday) which is obviously some time during the night in the USA (I am assuming that it's an American site). I was able to fit in a 10 minute game today, which was a bit too quick, but I sort of ignored the warning ...

...well worth watching if you haven't seen it.

Quote from the BBC Sport website, 25 minutes into the Aston Villa v Derby County play-off final:

"It's been quite open and interesting though, certainly not a chess match"

From today's "Observer" (a full page article on the back of the sports section!):

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2018/ ... ampionship

The big match (but not the moves) is featured on the BBC News website:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/45786786

There is an interesting feature about chess in Armenia on the BBC website: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-43084816 I was in a bit of a quandary when I saw the feature and thought it should be flagged in this forum. The 'Media comments' thread is its natural home but it could have got lost there, ...

Garry Kasparov will be Kirsty Young's guest on "Desert Island Discs" at 11.15 on Radio 4 this coming Sunday, the 28th. Which tracks will he choose? Perhaps he will go for "Two Tribes" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "King of Pain" by The Police, "Killer Queen" by, well, it's obvious, or on a more elev...

Cheddleton is on the outskirts of Stoke-on-Trent and is about 30 miles from Derby.

As for the whole thread, this seems appropriate:

https://www.comedycard.co.uk/products/f ... e-northern

From last Saturday's 'Guardian':

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyl ... hess-moves

Shame he wasn't at the club last night!