Media comments on chess

[Brian Towers]

Down with such talk!

Indeed.

Chess, like love, like music, has the power to make men happy

but unfortunately not this particular woman.

[LawrenceCooper]

"There are times when a well placed pawn is more powerful than a king" https://plus.google.com/103583939320326 ... vtvfBvwA5j

[David Robertson]

Women are weaker, smaller, and less intelligent than men, says frail 74-year old Polish fascist MEP. And they're no good at chess

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Women are weaker, smaller, and less intelligent than men, says frail 74-year old Polish fascist MEP. And they're no good at chess

Oh dear. "women’s attitudes are influenced by the men they sleep with". That is terrible (as you will see if you read the rest of what he said, which I won't repeat in a family-friendly forum).

[Stewart Reuben]

"people’s attitudes are influenced by the people they sleep with".
That seems to me eminently sensible. Using women's is also OK, but there is an inference that the speaker meant that it is different for men.
Surely we are all affected by the environment and who you sleep with is likely to be very influntial.

[LawrenceCooper]

“Marriage is a complicated chess game: you always have to look five moves ahead” http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/ ... -e7-enough

[Brian Towers]

“Marriage is a complicated chess game: you always have to look five moves ahead” http://www.radiotimes.com/tv-programme/ ... -e7-enough

More to the point people spend far too much time on the opening and nowhere near enough on the endgame.

[Geoff Chandler]

“Marriage is a complicated chess game: you always have to look five moves ahead”

2 hours after saying 'I do' at the church I jumped up at the reception and shouted 'J'adoube'.

( 40 years married this June.)

[Stewart Reuben]

Geoff Chandler >2 hours after saying 'I do' at the church I jumped up at the reception and shouted 'J'adoube'.<

As a 'so-called' chessplayer, you should have known that, having made your move, you do not hve the right to change it.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Stewart,

I know but somehow my Queen over promoted to a King and I was under promoted to a mere pawn.

So here I am. Blocked, Backward and Isolated.

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Buying a new book on a chess opening is like getting re-married.

After a few pages you realise you were better off with the old one.

[Stewart Reuben]

You may not have seen it but Jonathan Arnott ( UKIP ) played a speed chess game against Tim Farron ( Lib-Dem ) on the BBC Daily Politics TV programme earlier today.
Here is the score of the game.
Jonathan Tim
Arnott Farron
( UKIP ) ( Lib-Dem )

1. e4 b5
2. Bb5 a6
3. Bc4 Nc6
4. Nf3 Nb4
5. Ne5 Ra7
6. Bf7 ++

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19927902

The background of the item was the news that Jonathan Arnott is in a chessboxing match against another senior Lib-Dem in order to raise funds for charity.
Cheers,
Len Harris
(That's quite nn original mate.)

[Stewart Reuben]

Chris Ross in a radio interview

Part 1
http://www.braillechess.org.uk/radio/Inspiration1.mp3

part 2
http://www.braillechess.org.uk/radio/Inspiration2.mp3

[Matt Mackenzie]

It would be naughty to suggest Tim F's chess ability and political prowess are in any way related

[Matthew Turner]

A very interesting idea, but I am not really sure what it proves.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017 ... ciousness/

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Mathew.

(The diagram from the link)

White to play and draw.

8/p7/kpP5/qrp1b3/rpP2b2/pP4b1/P3K3/8 w - - 0 6

It is one of them positions that a reasonable player should see practically instantly how
to draw yet a computer will have to analyse for quite a while before it hits the 50 move rule.

Nice drawing. Should end up on the cover of some future chess book.
They should have a chess font like this so one can use this format in diagrams in all chess books.