Major investment to transform future of English chess announced
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Bolton also getting 2 chess boards
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Assuming these tables will have a permanently inlaid board, I hope there will be a check on the orientation.
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Are there chairs to be associated with the tables?Paul Habershon wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 12:06 pmAssuming these tables will have a permanently inlaid board, I hope there will be a check on the orientation.
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Use your imagination.David Williams wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:53 pmApologies that I probably haven't read enough to understand what's going on, but do you have to bring your own pieces? …
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In that case, the tables won't be needed.Richard Bates wrote: ↑Sat Dec 09, 2023 3:24 pmUse your imagination.David Williams wrote: ↑Mon Dec 04, 2023 2:53 pmApologies that I probably haven't read enough to understand what's going on, but do you have to bring your own pieces? …
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Farnworth, Bolton
There's photos for those wanting to check if the board is the right way roundA chess board has been set up in Farnworth in hopes it will encourage young people to take up the game.
A table and two chairs with a chess board glued to the table has been installed at Farnworth Park.
Last year, it was announced the council had won a £5,000 grant for two chess boards and chairs in the borough, but chess pieces will not be provided under the funding scheme.
Now, one has been installed at Farnworth Park and another on Bradford Street in a playing field.
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Personally I prefer giant sets and boards fixed to the ground, as can be seen at such places as Hastings, Twickenham, Lanzarote, Sydney.
Normal sized tables with byo sets are highly successful in Washington Square and Central Park in NY. I don't know how Clapham Common works, but it was/is highly successful for many years.
Normal sized tables with byo sets are highly successful in Washington Square and Central Park in NY. I don't know how Clapham Common works, but it was/is highly successful for many years.
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From the local news article, a quote from a local councillor:Mick Norris wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:50 amFarnworth, Bolton
There's photos for those wanting to check if the board is the right way roundA chess board has been set up in Farnworth in hopes it will encourage young people to take up the game.
A table and two chairs with a chess board glued to the table has been installed at Farnworth Park.
Last year, it was announced the council had won a £5,000 grant for two chess boards and chairs in the borough, but chess pieces will not be provided under the funding scheme.
Now, one has been installed at Farnworth Park and another on Bradford Street in a playing field.
(I mean, compared to Russia, yes, but I thought the UK was quite high up the per capita ranking of chess-playing nations?)Chess is a worldwide game but is it [sic] not often played in the UK, so this creates awareness.
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Do you have to bring your own wellington boots, or are they provided? I'd have expected them to at least have put gravel on the ground, if not concrete or paving.Mick Norris wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:50 amFarnworth, Bolton
There's photos for those wanting to check if the board is the right way roundA chess board has been set up in Farnworth in hopes it will encourage young people to take up the game.
A table and two chairs with a chess board glued to the table has been installed at Farnworth Park.
Is it correct that the chess board is glued to the table? If it is, is it of a material that is weather resistant and will last? Or is it likely to peel off, or fade, over time?
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They need to get chess back on tv if only in a highlights type of set up. Eurosport could show it or something.
Never going to get the glory days of channel 4 back I don't think.
Never going to get the glory days of channel 4 back I don't think.
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I have been to Farnworth today, the park is opposite the Library, so maybe there's a possibility of having a chess set in thereIan Thompson wrote: ↑Fri Feb 23, 2024 12:36 pmDo you have to bring your own wellington boots, or are they provided? I'd have expected them to at least have put gravel on the ground, if not concrete or paving.Mick Norris wrote: ↑Thu Feb 22, 2024 11:50 amFarnworth, Bolton
There's photos for those wanting to check if the board is the right way roundA chess board has been set up in Farnworth in hopes it will encourage young people to take up the game.
A table and two chairs with a chess board glued to the table has been installed at Farnworth Park.
Is it correct that the chess board is glued to the table? If it is, is it of a material that is weather resistant and will last? Or is it likely to peel off, or fade, over time?
The Park was opened by William Gladstone
The board is an integral part of the table, not glued on
I will post a photo when I get time, it no longer looks like the photo in the paper, the grass come mud has gone, so maybe someone has agreed with your Wellington boots comment
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I've seen better.
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One of these was put in my local park (Bury Knowle in Headington) ten years ago:
I didn't see anyone play on it except on the odd occasions when I managed to convince some friends to give it a go. After about two years some kids managed to dislodge the solid concrete tabletop and it broke into several pieces. The council replaced it with a very ugly wooden top with no chessboard.
I didn't see anyone play on it except on the odd occasions when I managed to convince some friends to give it a go. After about two years some kids managed to dislodge the solid concrete tabletop and it broke into several pieces. The council replaced it with a very ugly wooden top with no chessboard.