Media comments on chess

[David Stott]

Please allow me to offer:-
Kings Cross Roads
Square Dance Hall
Knight Hood Wink
Blunder Bus Ticket
Swiss Guard Duty
I'm not sure whether homophones would be allowed. If so, there's also Board Stiff Card.

[John Upham]

Different guy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Crouch

[NickFaulks]

I'm not sure whether homophones would be allowed. If so, there's also Board Stiff Card.

If not, that would also rule out Blunder - Buss/Bus - Ticket

[Andy Stoker]

A speaker on "Woman's Hour" today likened the current political farago to a game of twelve-dimensional chess - thus taking the lead numerically. The PM was said to have painted himself into a corner of chess pieces.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0008436

[John McKenna]

Please allow me to offer:-
Kings Cross Roads
Square Dance Hall
Knight Hood Wink
Blunder Bus Ticket
Swiss Guard Duty
I'm not sure whether homophones would be allowed. If so, there's also Board Stiff Card.

Very good, David.

However, can you supply evidence of the existence of the items on your list, please?

Above, I did so for my "castle - gate - keeper".

Michael F's "pawn - shop - keeper" is, of course, a non-starter as everyone who goes knows the correct terminology - pawnshop op(erative).

Can't wait to see evidence of your "Blunder Bus Ticket", preferably on stiff cardboard!

Here's mine for "pawn - shop - ticket" -

Book your Gold and Silver Pawn Shop tickets online and skip-the-line! Save time and money with our best price ...

https://www.getyourguide.co.uk/gold-and ... hop-l4742/

(Pssst, please say I sent you.)

[Geoff Chandler]

The book solutions: I have put a ! on the ones I got.

White - Christmas - Card !
Kings -Cross -Roads!
Square - Dance - Hall
Bishops -Gate - Post
Knight - Hood - Wink!
Black - Magic - Circle!
Piece- Meal - Ticket
Check - Point - Duty
Pawn - Shop - Keeper
Queen - Victoria Plum!

Did not spend too much time on it as there were other juicier chess puzzles that caught my attention.

This one (remove the Black King) find the three names.

Knight (the name has six letters) Bishop (the name has six letters) Queen (the name has 5 five letters)

k3N3/8/4B3/8/8/8/4Q3/4K3 w - - 0 1

They are Kings of England. e2 = James II , e6 - George Vi and e8 = Edward VIII (I failed to spot that link went off in another direction.)

[Ian Thompson]

The book solutions: I have put a ! on the ones I got.

White - Christmas - Card !
Kings -Cross -Roads!
Square - Dance - Hall
Bishops -Gate - Post
Knight - Hood - Wink!
Black - Magic - Circle!
Piece- Meal - Ticket
Check - Point - Duty
Pawn - Shop - Keeper
Queen - Victoria Plum!

I'd dispute several of these because the question asked for three linked words. Some of these answers have only two words with the middle "word" being a prefix or suffix (or both) to the first or last words.

[John McKenna]

Very good, Geoff.

Why not complete the set of sovereigns -

Edward I of England "Hammer of the Scots"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_I_of_England

Alfonso XIII of Spain "El Africano"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfonso_XIII_of_Spain

[John McKenna]

The book solutions: I have put a ! on the ones I got.

White - Christmas - Card !
Kings -Cross -Roads!
Square - Dance - Hall
Bishops -Gate - Post
Knight - Hood - Wink!
Black - Magic - Circle!
Piece- Meal - Ticket
Check - Point - Duty
Pawn - Shop - Keeper
Queen - Victoria Plum!

I'd dispute several of these because the question asked for three linked words. Some of these answers have only two words with the middle "word" being a prefix or suffix (or both) to the first or last words.

I, also, protest that most of these combinations are too archaic for youngsters (like me) to get.

[Michael Farthing]

I, also, protest that most of these combinations are too archaic for youngsters (like me) to get.

This is a fault that surely time will correct.

[John McKenna]

Ah, Michael, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (Brian Towers has the same syndrome.)

[Stewart Reuben]

Saturday 7.9. Daily Telegrph satirical column by Michael Deacon.

His strategic genious has left Westminster reeling. But just who is Dominic Cummings?
1. DC is capable of thinking so far ahead that he managed to crack the Enigma Code at Bletchley Park nore than 30 years before he was born.
...
5. While playing a game of chess with his father at the age of eight, DC made a move of such devastating strategic brilliance that it prompted the immediate surrender of the Soviet army.

[Kevin Thurlow]

Yesterday's Times (I borrowed someone else's copy) reports that a meeting of Nigels is being organized in a pub, bemoaning the fact that very few babies are called Nigel now. The guy in charge (called Nigel), has invited messrs Havers, Lawson, Kennedy, Planer, Short etc. Apparently, Nigel comes from an Irish name which means champion. I haven't checked the veracity of that.

[John Upham]

Yesterday's Times (I borrowed someone else's copy) reports that a meeting of Nigels is being organized in a pub, bemoaning the fact that very few babies are called Nigel now. The guy in charge (called Nigel), has invited messrs Havers, Lawson, Kennedy, Planer, Short etc. Apparently, Nigel comes from an Irish name which means champion. I haven't checked the veracity of that.

Most appropriately for Farage we have

In Australian English, it is a colloquial term for a male social misfit or a friendless person, originating from the name being unusual in the 1980s and alliterating with "no-friends" (both start with n).[3]

Also, I would invite Nigel Tufnell, Nigel Mansell and Nigel Benn who, hopefully might not be a fan of Farage.

[Geoff Chandler]

According to WIki the name 'Nigel' chosen for a new born peaked in 1994 when 447 were recorded. It's just possible that
was the result of a certain 1993 match. (Though Nigel Mansell and Nigel Kennedy were also media hot around about the same time)