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OTB chess still being played...
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 4:24 pm
by Reg Clucas
...in the avian community. Here, GM Joseph Henry Blackbird takes on a team of allcomers.
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Re: OTB chess still being played...
Posted: Thu Apr 02, 2020 11:03 pm
by Andy Stoker
The obvious opening! The rooks are waiting. No great winds indoor or there could be a knight-in-gale
Re: OTB chess still being played...
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 12:17 pm
by Geoff Chandler
Brilliant:
Perhaps the time piece should have been a cuckoo clock. (... Blackbird takes on a flock of all comers.)
Re: OTB chess still being played...
Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2020 3:15 pm
by Kevin Thurlow
Brilliant indeed.
Having overcome my disappointment that no owls are involved, may I point out that the robin would probably select a high vantage point from which to view the game.
Nice set and board as well.