It appears that he found the key in the endgame..LawrenceCooper wrote: ↑Sat Mar 20, 2021 6:40 pm"Guardiola is like a chess player trying to work out what move to make to break the Everton defence" according to Martin Keown on BT Sport 1.
Media comments on chess
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Short David Edmonds programme for the World Service about the 1978 world championship match, featuring Michael Stean
"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."
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/technology-56458267
is about someone setting up a "bot" to annoy scam callers. (Good.) For some reason a chess set appears a couple of times.
is about someone setting up a "bot" to annoy scam callers. (Good.) For some reason a chess set appears a couple of times.
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The ECF has a link to the film Glory to the Queen which is about Georgian women's chess.
Viewing the film requires a password that is given in the ECF link to it.
Viewing the film requires a password that is given in the ECF link to it.
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Today's "i" has an advert in the Money section, page ix, for Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEMIT), showing a small child staring at the board after playing 1.d4. A robotic hand is apparently about to reply. The advert mentions AI, so that's presumably the connection. The board is set up correctly.
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Elsewhere in the "i" is a photograph of someone called Dua Lipa, (apparently a popular singer) wearing a skirt that looks like a chessboard.
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She is of Albanian extraction, and caused a stir last year by approvingly tweeting maps of "Greater Albania".Kevin Thurlow wrote: ↑Wed Mar 24, 2021 4:21 pmElsewhere in the "i" is a photograph of someone called Dua Lipa, (apparently a popular singer) wearing a skirt that looks like a chessboard.
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We're working our way through The Crown and just watched episode five of season two, "Marionettes", in which at one point Lord Altrincham, speaking of a functionary (specifically Martin Charteris) he has been asked to go and see at the Palace, says something like "more than a pawn - but not quite a bishop or knight".
"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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...and then this evening I saw Get Out (2017) in which one of the characters says of jiujitsu
Strength does not matter. It's all about this. It is a strategic game, like chess. It's all about getting two, three, four moves ahead.
"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."
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The Poke is a satirical news website. This is an old report from October last year with a Top-Ten list of Daily Mail readers comments. No 1 is very good, but I've posted here to note especially No 9 from a reader in America.
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/10/01/si ... ZRdIXyKMJo
https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2020/10/01/si ... ZRdIXyKMJo
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"The Poke is a satirical news website. This is an old report from October last year with a Top-Ten list of Daily Mail readers comments. No 1 is very good, but I've posted here to note especially No 9 from a reader in America."
The sad thing is that I feel compelled to say that many of those comments must be tongue in cheek. I suspect number 9 is.
The sad thing is that I feel compelled to say that many of those comments must be tongue in cheek. I suspect number 9 is.
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Poirot; Appointment with death on itv 3. Two women playing chess. one of them is the murderer. good twist at the end.
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Today's Bargain Hunt had a chess set for sale:
- Bought for £12 (15:20 minutes into the programme)
- Not liked by the auctioneer, estimate £10 - £20 (29:25 minutes into the programme)
- Sold for £50 (36:00 minutes into the programme)
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School almost 'eliminates bullying' with break-time ban on games
A school claims to have almost eliminated bullying by banning games like football at break times.
Instead, students at Hackney New School participate in supervised quizzes, poetry recitals and other activities, including chess and choir clubs.
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Should do wonders for our national team in years to come.A school claims to have almost eliminated bullying by banning games like football at break times.
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