Media comments on chess
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"In chess, you can just give up, can't you?"
- from the cricket commentary on Talksport just a moment ago.
- from the cricket commentary on Talksport just a moment ago.
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
lostontime.blogspot.com
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Arturo Perez Reverte a famous Spanih novelist, 'A LONG TIME AGO, I REPLCED GOD WITH CHESS'.
Leontxo Garcia told us this at dinner in Gibraltar Monday night.
Leontxo Garcia told us this at dinner in Gibraltar Monday night.
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Not sure that Leontxo García saying something in conversation constitutes a media comment, but whatever
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
lostontime.blogspot.com
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
lostontime.blogspot.com
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I'm currently reading What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte, which features quite a bit of chess in the story (not for the first time cf The Flanders Panel)
Any postings on here represent my personal views
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Spotted this inside a May 2002 VIZ.
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Geff, that is real find. Thank you. How old-fashioned to use English descriptive in 2002.
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Hi Stewart,
I blanked out the rude f-word between Bamber and Gascoigne.
I checked, could not see anymore. (if one has slipped through then I'm sorry)
I blanked out the rude f-word between Bamber and Gascoigne.
I checked, could not see anymore. (if one has slipped through then I'm sorry)
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Well Deep Blue made a guest appearance on Futurama on Tuesday night (it was an episode from 2016) and it was speaking descriptive. The machine is introduced......Stewart Reuben wrote: ↑Sun Feb 03, 2019 11:21 amGeff, that is real find. Thank you. How old-fashioned to use English descriptive in 2002.
Al Gore: And our summer intern, Deep Blue, the world's foremost chess-playing computer.
Deep Blue: Bishop to knight 4.
[Gore pats Deep Blue.]
Al Gore: Not all missions can be solved with chess, Deep Blue. Someday you'll understand that.
Later Deep Blue blurts out "Pawn to Rook 8".
So far as the non-playing chess-world is concerned, descriptive has never gone away.
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The Guardian's weekly round-up of You Tube sport videos includes
Chess player Hikaru Nakamura doesn’t like what he sees on the next table at the Gibraltar Open.
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
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"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."
lostontime.blogspot.com
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Looks more like he thinks Aronian has made an unpleasant smell!JustinHorton wrote: ↑Thu Feb 07, 2019 8:22 pmThe Guardian's weekly round-up of You Tube sport videos includes
Chess player Hikaru Nakamura doesn’t like what he sees on the next table at the Gibraltar Open.
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Its arguable that, metaphorically speaking, that is exactly what he did
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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"It's going to be a chess game" Paul Ince prediction for the second half of Man U v PSG.
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If so, it was somewhat one sided
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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A movietone compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO-69mmm-s&ut=
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO-69mmm-s&ut=
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Thank you Bob for finding that. I was too young to have ever known Alekhine or Flohr.
I only knew Elaine by her married name, Pritchard. She told me she remembered sitting on Vera Menchik's knee.
I only knew Elaine by her married name, Pritchard. She told me she remembered sitting on Vera Menchik's knee.