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A photo of an almost uniquely dapper R.G.Wade accompanying the above report of Combe...

Interesting also to hear thoughts on how the men of Blechley may have lost touch with the game somewhat...

I guess the simplest explanation is that, you know, "once in a blue moon..."

I hear Tiger Hillarp-Persson plays fine piano. And last week I was presented with a copy of a book in Spanish - ´Entre la EMOCIÓN y el TALENTO´ , by Antonío Igelsias Martin. The subject was chessplayer and pianist, Erwin Nievergelt. GM Soffer, whom I defeated in a wildly fantastical game a few years...

First day in history when two GM deaths occured?

Astonishing result!

btw, I see that in Winter´s Wikipedia entry they write he was the only ex-British chess champion to have served time in jail.

But, if they ever collar Brian Eley...

Does anyone have an explanation for how a Scottish guy from Elgin won the 1946 British Championship in Nottingham? Robert Combe won a 12 player all play all, ahead of C H O´D Alexander, Abrahams, Milner-Barry, Winter, Golombek and Wade. Wade actually finishing last! And then he disappeared into the ...

I think better had you quoted from the final paragraph, Sñr...

And who said it was us chasing after anything?

Señor Benjamin: here´s a review of our book (by someone who actually read it first) . It contains some inaccuracies: we NEVER claimed Diana called four pagers on the eve of her husband´s taking the chair on the second evening. Weaver does accept the accuracy of many of our criticisms but, neverthele...

re Andrew Martin´s link to the Impala Publications[ /b] book and Keene´s attempts to fathom that screed - Keene told me , I believe in the late 1980s, that a guy had paid him 75,000 Pounds for the rights to make a board game out of this mysterious business. Keene accepted, and commented that this wa...

Dave Rumens once commented to me that, in the 1970s, Pribanich slaughtered him.

Here´s a chess question, echoed two weeks later on the German show - https://en.chessbase.com/post/who-wants-to-be-a-millionaire-part-two ´Nigel Short´ was once the answer to an early question on the UK show, too. Parfitt and Rossi from Status Quo actually got WRONG their first question - " How many...

Da, Tovarisch; eta pravda.

Kasparov s Daria -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nu8s9D0jRZk

He was helped by his missus, as was I.
(I phoned the wife!)

Without addressing my explanation of why the guy changed his mind at 32K, nor accepting the analysis of Europe´s leading authority on coughs, Professor Alyn Morice, that the tapes unquestionably show two people coughing. Nor answering my other main point about the triviality of pulling this off just...

That´s what they all say...

Andrew Ledger (whose uncle taught me Geography) has two GM norms.
But family life and a good job in the Civil Service in Sheffield mean, sadly, that it is unlikely he´ll make the necessary third.