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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sat Oct 02, 2021 12:58 pm

From Kevin Spraggett's column.

http://www.spraggettonchess.com/fide-jo ... th-motiva/

"Motiva and FIDE have been hiding a little secret from the rest of the chess world. It turns out that
Motiva has been organizing a women’s rapid tournament each year (since 2017) in St. Petersburg."

I found this, a mini report/advert on the 2019 event.

https://motiva.health/patient/blog/motiva-chess-2019/

Just take the money and thank them for their interest in promoting chess.
There will be a few unoriginal jokes flying about for a while but IMO it's not as silly as some football sponsors
which leave themselves open to laddish comments. (guffaw-guffaw)

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etc..etc..and a Greek football club, Voukefalas, are/were sponsored by a brothel.

https://www.argophilia.com/news/greek-s ... hel/27154/

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by LawrenceCooper » Sun Oct 03, 2021 4:46 pm

"It's just a game of chess" Dion Dublin after 15 minutes of Liverpool-Man City.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:32 pm

LawrenceCooper wrote:
Sun Oct 03, 2021 4:46 pm
"It's just a game of chess" Dion Dublin after 15 minutes of Liverpool-Man City.
I think my chess pieces have been watching too much football.
Yesterday a knight took a pawn and they all moved to the corner to celebrate.

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I wonder what team they support. ManCHESSter United?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:39 pm

Geoff Chandler wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:32 pm
LawrenceCooper wrote:
Sun Oct 03, 2021 4:46 pm
"It's just a game of chess" Dion Dublin after 15 minutes of Liverpool-Man City.
I think my chess pieces have been watching too much football.
Yesterday a knight took a pawn and they all moved to the corner to celebrate.

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I wonder what team they support. ManCHESSter United?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:53 pm

They obviously don't believe in playing to the Laws of Chess.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:59 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Tue Oct 05, 2021 12:39 pm
Geoff Chandler wrote:
Mon Oct 04, 2021 7:32 pm
LawrenceCooper wrote:
Sun Oct 03, 2021 4:46 pm
"It's just a game of chess" Dion Dublin after 15 minutes of Liverpool-Man City.
I think my chess pieces have been watching too much football.
Yesterday a knight took a pawn and they all moved to the corner to celebrate.

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I wonder what team they support. ManCHESSter United?
I thought the red pawn had been sent off.
They might support CHESSter City instead.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Wed Oct 06, 2021 7:41 pm

I was slightly surprised to hear that Nigel Short was going to be interviewed on Classic FM and they were very excited about it.

Mystery solved

https://www.tenebrae-choir.com/about/nigel-short

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:03 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:59 pm
I thought the red pawn had been sent off.
They might support CHESSter City instead.
Hi Simon,

I could have made a yellow card/red card gag with my yellow and red set. Missed that one.

Other possible teams, Bishop Auckland, Queens Park Rangers, WoKING...

But I'll settle for this team, their nickname is The Rooks. (the name of their home ground is The Dripping Pan.)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_F.C.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:25 pm

Geoff Chandler wrote:
Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:03 pm
Simon Rogers wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:59 pm
I thought the red pawn had been sent off.
They might support CHESSter City instead.
Hi Simon,

I could have made a yellow card/red card gag with my yellow and red set. Missed that one.

Other possible teams, Bishop Auckland, Queens Park Rangers, WoKING...

But I'll settle for this team, their nickname is The Rooks. (the name of their home ground is The Dripping Pan.)

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewes_F.C.
I'm sure there is more football teams.
One I can think of straightaway is KINGStonian FC.
Anyone else think of anymore?

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by John Clarke » Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:52 pm

Geoff Chandler wrote:
Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:03 pm
Simon Rogers wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:59 pm
I thought the red pawn had been sent off.
They might support CHESSter City instead.
I'm sure there is more football teams.
One I can think of straightaway is KINGStonian FC.
Anyone else think of anymore?
There's always this lot, up in Shropshire. B H Wood once said that's where his business ought to have been based.

(Surprised Geoff didn't have QUEEN's Park on his list - perhaps because they're based in That Other City? :mrgreen:)
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:23 am

John Clarke wrote:
Fri Oct 08, 2021 11:52 pm
Geoff Chandler wrote:
Fri Oct 08, 2021 9:03 pm
Simon Rogers wrote:
Wed Oct 06, 2021 1:59 pm
I thought the red pawn had been sent off.
They might support CHESSter City instead.
I'm sure there is more football teams.
One I can think of straightaway is KINGStonian FC.
Anyone else think of anymore?
There's always this lot, up in Shropshire. B H Wood once said that's where his business ought to have been based.

(Surprised Geoff didn't have QUEEN's Park on his list - perhaps because they're based in That Other City? :mrgreen:)
Yeah, Geoff missed that one.
Do they still play at Hampden Park?
Geoff also missed another in Scotland, Queen of the South, who play in Dumfries.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Sat Oct 09, 2021 7:40 am

Bishop's Stortford, Bishop Auckland etc etc
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Geoff Chandler » Sat Oct 09, 2021 11:59 am

in the Amateur Cup Final Crook Town (Rook Town) have beaten both King's Lynn (1901) and Bishop Auckland (1954)

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The Amateur Cup is no longer played for. The last winners were Bishop's Stortford who won it in 1974.
Bishop Auckland hold the record for winning it 10 times.
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Simon Rogers » Sat Oct 09, 2021 12:48 pm

I'm surprised Jack R missed the town of Castle Cary in south Somerset.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Reg Clucas » Sat Oct 09, 2021 6:56 pm

Simon Rogers wrote:
Fri Oct 08, 2021 10:25 pm

Anyone else think of anymore?
A bit of a tenuous link - Morecambe FC, aka 'the Shrimps', are known jocularly on the other side of the Bay as 'the prawns'. This brings to mind the famous chess scene from 'Bottom'.

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