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To get back to the book in question, does it mention Claude Bloodgood? Yes, there are two pages on Bloodgood, most of which is taken up by an annotated game. Nothing on Raymond Weinstein, though. Nor on chess in Broadmoor . There's quite a good chapter on Bloodgood in The Kings Gambit, by Paul Hoff...

Isn't that racial abuse nowadays? As the 1824 Vagrancy Act is still on the books in England, I would imagine a lawyer defending you from a libel action could argue that calling someone sleeping rough 'a vagrant' was a strictly factual description and thus carried no imputation of abuse. Whether the...

Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑

Tue Dec 05, 2017 10:51 am

I read somewhere (I think it was The Chess Scene by Levy and Reuben but may be wrong) that sometimes when players fail to resign in an absolutely hopeless position it's because they are trying to get over the shock of losing.

I'm usually more shocked when I manage to win Andrew

I don't see anything wrong with sticking my hand out, if you can see the loss is inevitable and yet some ways away (particularly if its the last round of a congress, or a dead of winter league match in middle of nowhere) But if you've let it get as far as a mating combo, its only proper to let them ...

Mick Norris wrote:

Jon Mahony wrote:At the Leeds Congress, I once had a certain, well known Lancashire player

I'm surprised you let them over the border Jon

I was dead set against it, voted down though

At the Leeds Congress, I once had a certain, well known Lancashire player, storm out of the open room (where he had insisted on having his game moved to, because of “noise” in the Major area) and shout in my face for giving bus directions to another player, at a level of volume he deemed unacceptabl...

Lol Bloody Hull town hall? Don't get me wrong I always enjoy the Hull congress but that's out In the sticks - anyone who knows me knows I aren't snobby, but dear god, I saw people with tattoos on their faces walking round that area last time I was there

I once made a fairly decent study of the opening, as I intended to start every white game with the Grob and every black game with 1.g5 (the Borg) at the British RP that year. I got hold of "Matricide Master" Claude Frizzell Bloodgood's pamphlet, and Michael "He don't play it like a Man" Basman's boo...

Very amusing :) and yes despite only writing his own moves its a pretty decent first effort. We have a bloke in Leeds (who granted doesn't speak English as a first language) and he is incapable of keeping his moves in the numbered boxes, and takes up about 5 columns per move, by the time he has fini...

I’d say its fine to start with, a lot of teaching kids in the beginning is basically the rules, basic tactics and most important keeping it engaging, so they don’t go back to their Xbox. I’m reasonably confident I could get a group of children new to chess, up to competitive standard, quickly. The t...

At a congress last year, an opponent started telling me before the round, he was furious as he’d just got his Chess.com account banned. He’d forced a draw against a German guy which gave him the half point needed to clench a tournament, the German guy sent him several PM’s saying the English offend ...

I was the victim of this in a congress game last year - I’d turned down several draw offers, and eventually got into a position where I had 2 strong passed pawns but my opponent had an isolated PP ready to queen. I had calculated a very simple combo where if my opponent queened I won his existing qu...

I shall be pouncing and booking up both weeks, with a view to cancelling one if I decide I aren't playing the full 2 weeks. Didn't you notice the announcement earlier this year? The British in 2017 has been cut down to 9 or perhaps 10 days. Ooops, no I didn't Roger! Seems a little watered down does...

If this is confirmed I'm already looking forward to it (with one caveat which I'll come to). From a personally point of view Llandudno seems to be easily accessible (Harrogate - Leeds - Manchester Piccadilly followed by a two hour run down to Llandudno). I did have a look at what booking.com had to...

I tend to be a lot better at rapid chess that classical, I wish it were the other way round though!