Media comments on chess
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Do others wince when they hear, 'Breaking the stalemate'?
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Yes, this is another one beloved of football commentators. I want to scream at the television "you can't break a stalemate, you idiot, stalemate ends the game!"Stewart Reuben wrote:Do others wince when they hear, 'Breaking the stalemate'?
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Dictionaries give two meanings to this, one being where it is used as an alternative to "deadlock" and the other as the technical chess term.Stewart Reuben wrote: 'Breaking the stalemate'?
http://www.ldoceonline.com/dictionary/stalemate
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Hyundai using chess to advertise on the back of this week's Economist.
I wonder if they would be willing to sponsor chess?
I wonder if they would be willing to sponsor chess?
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Mark Rivlin is currently in charge of trying for business sponsorship of chess for the ECF. It is always worth a try. Hyundai might be interested.
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In the final of the English Snooker Championship one of the commentators said:
'Like the Garray Kasparov of snooker, Ronnie sees 7 or 8 moves ahead.'
Note, he didn't see the need to say who Kasparov is, just as I haven't said swho Ronnie is.
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In the final of the English Snooker Championship one of the commentators said:
'Like the Garray Kasparov of snooker, Ronnie sees 7 or 8 moves ahead.'
Note, he didn't see the need to say who Kasparov is, just as I haven't said swho Ronnie is.
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Yes you have, you've identified him as one of the finalists in the English Snooker Championship.
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Stewart Reuben wrote:In the final of the English Snooker Championship one of the commentators said:
I'm afraid I'm going to be annoyingly pedantic. He was one of the finalists in the English Open, a professional ranking event on the World Snooker tour.JustinHorton wrote:Yes you have, you've identified him as one of the finalists in the English Snooker Championship.
The English Snooker Championship isn't a thing, but the closest thing to it is probably the English Amateur Championship, which is an amateur event organised by the EASB. The closest Ronnie got to winning it was losing 13-10 to Steve Judd in the 1991 Final.
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"I'm afraid I'm going to be annoyingly pedantic..."
Me too because I'm bored
You are not 'one step ahead' in chess, you are one move ahead.
It is not a studio shoot. The picture has been pasted together.
Look at the shadow under the car and the lack of it under the human player.
No pieces have been captured, impossible to see who may be winning.
No clocks, No score sheet. I think they have the board set up correctly,
that style of table does tend to have a drawer on either side for the pieces.
In the original picture you can see a draw on the car side.
(ah well....back to work.)
Me too because I'm bored
You are not 'one step ahead' in chess, you are one move ahead.
It is not a studio shoot. The picture has been pasted together.
Look at the shadow under the car and the lack of it under the human player.
No pieces have been captured, impossible to see who may be winning.
No clocks, No score sheet. I think they have the board set up correctly,
that style of table does tend to have a drawer on either side for the pieces.
In the original picture you can see a draw on the car side.
(ah well....back to work.)
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Apparently the England women's cricket team also has chess players:
'We've got a giant chess set at the hotel'
'We've got a giant chess set at the hotel'
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My tech: Alex Thomson
Alex Thomson wrote:For routing, I run a bit of software called Adrena, which is a bit like a satnav, except this works out routes based on weather [...] I also get the positions of competing boats six times a day so I can run all those routes to see what they might be doing. It’s like a giant game of chess where I spend a minimum of ten hours a day in front of that computer calculating routes.
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On yesterday's "Tipping Point" (ITV), one of the questions was, "How many different first moves are possible in a game of chess?" Options of 5, 20 and 35 were given. The contestant groaned at first then said that all the pawns could move, and the knights, but not the other pieces, so he got the right answer. He quite rightly later won £10000, helped considerably by that answer.
Yes I know I was watching "Tipping Point", but I needed to relax before a chess match.
Yes I know I was watching "Tipping Point", but I needed to relax before a chess match.
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"Do others wince when they hear, 'Breaking the stalemate'?"
I'm kind of OK with that, what gets me is books, T.V. programmes and films calling Rooks, Castles.
I'm reading an excellent book at the moment, 'The Trap' by Melanie Raabe.
A few references to chess and that has 'Knights, Bishops and Castles'.
I heard a minor debate on R4X yesterday. In football the net is facing the
pitch so the ball does not hit 'the back of the net,' it hits the front of the net.
I'm kind of OK with that, what gets me is books, T.V. programmes and films calling Rooks, Castles.
I'm reading an excellent book at the moment, 'The Trap' by Melanie Raabe.
A few references to chess and that has 'Knights, Bishops and Castles'.
I heard a minor debate on R4X yesterday. In football the net is facing the
pitch so the ball does not hit 'the back of the net,' it hits the front of the net.
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Isn't the back of the net the bit that isn't the side netting or the top?Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑Tue Oct 31, 2017 10:19 amI heard a minor debate on R4X yesterday. In football the net is facing the pitch so the ball does not hit 'the back of the net,' it hits the front of the net.
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Geoff Chandler >what gets me is books, T.V. programmes and films calling Rooks, Castles.
So, I presume you use the term 'rooking' when making that rather odd move with the king and rook?
Even the staff in the ECF Office ddn't know why it is called a 'rook'.
So, I presume you use the term 'rooking' when making that rather odd move with the king and rook?
Even the staff in the ECF Office ddn't know why it is called a 'rook'.