Media comments on chess

[A.Kluckova]

Elon Musk, the world's richest person and the chief executive of the electric car company Tesla, has said he will pay more than $11bn in tax this year – which could be a record amount of annual tax paid by a single person. (20 Dec 2021)

So 2:0 for Elon Musk in this chess game. Congrats.

[StewartReuben]

DEVIL'S HOUR
On Amazon prime video. I have yet to see it. It starts today and I think there are 6 episodes.
There was a glowing review in today's Daily Tlegraph. It was accompanied by a photo showing the cheap protagonist studying a chess position.

[John Upham]

DEVIL'S HOUR
On Amazon prime video. I have yet to see it. It starts today and I think there are 6 episodes.
There was a glowing review in today's Daily Tlegraph. It was accompanied by a photo showing the cheap protagonist studying a chess position.

What is a cheap protagonist?

I assume it was a budgerigar (but not Adam Faith).

Maybe it was Alan Michael Sugar?

[Geoff Chandler]

DEVIL'S HOUR
...the cheap protagonist studying a chess position.

I'm thinking now the media has chess linked with cheating all villains for the next 10 years will be chess players.

The player is trying give the Beth Harman look. The Board is the the correct way but the King and Queens are on the wrong square, although the game has started and technically they could have started on the correct squares.

[Geoff Chandler]

At a Car Boot sale this morning. Someone was selling old Viz's for 20p each.
I picked up one (from 1991)and flicked through it. Right away I saw the cartoon below and bought 5.

[StewartReuben]

John Upham > What is a cheap protagonist? <
It is what is called technically 'a typo' - as you knew very well

[StewartReuben]

SAS ROGUE HEROES 30 October on BBC1

'Each man should be like a chess player that can move in any direction.'
This is onnly approximately what was said.

[Roland Kensdale]

All Quiet on the Western Front (2022 film) at 10.57 college principal addressing student volunteers/draftees (translated from German):

'For modern war is like a game of chess, it is never about an individual soldier'.

[JustinHorton]

New film with a strong chess theme. And it's all about, ah...

[Matt Mackenzie]

Heil Honey, I'm Home!

[J T Melsom]

Blue Monday by Nicci French Page 282 in my copy.

'Frieda sat at her chess table and played through one of the games from her book of classic matches, Beliavsky versus Nunn in 1985.'

[Richard James]

Blue Monday by Nicci French Page 282 in my copy.

'Frieda sat at her chess table and played through one of the games from her book of classic matches, Beliavsky versus Nunn in 1985.'

Sean French (half of the Nicci French partnership) played in a few Richmond Rapidplays back in the 1990s. His rating page appears to be here.

[Matt Mackenzie]

i recall him giving chess a few mentions in his 1980s New Society/New Statesman days.

[JustinHorton]

This piece (or more accurately, excerpt) on Gordon Banks' save from Pelé has Jairzinho saying

It was a high-level game, a type of chess game.

(It also has him saying "avant la lettre", which I woud like to know more about.)

[Ian Thompson]

Anya Taylor-Joy doesn't play chess anymore, if she ever did.