Brian Towers wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:39 pm‘Waiting for your opponent to fail does not amount to a strategy’ - @Kasparov63
Some of his predecessors and successors, thinking Lasker, Petrosian and Carlsen seem to play chess that way on occasion.
Brian Towers wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:39 pm‘Waiting for your opponent to fail does not amount to a strategy’ - @Kasparov63
Something that arguably doesn't reflect too well on either of them?Brian Towers wrote: ↑Sat Sep 22, 2018 9:39 pmAlastair Campbell quoting Garry Kasparov in a tweet.
This is pathetic Barry. This is the most serious set of decisions in modern times and you suggest the official position is to sit it out rather than lead and show alternative. ‘Waiting for your opponent to fail does not amount to a strategy’ - @Kasparov63
It doesn't seem to be behind their paywall.Roger Lancaster wrote: ↑Sun Sep 23, 2018 7:14 pmPiece in today's Sunday Telegraph, which I didn't buy so I can't reproduce, but (as I interpreted it) somewhat critical of the ECF for opting for Makropoulos in view of his history -
Yes, up here in Bolton no problem; I caught some of the film today, and found it quite interestingNickFaulks wrote: ↑Fri Sep 21, 2018 7:57 pmThanks for the tip, but does anyone actually get Freeview 94? We're supposed to but we don't.
Looks like we have our source for possibly the first reporter who started using chess terms when writing about football.John Clarke wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:18 amremember reading about a newspaper report from 1962 which described the Spurs-Rangers Cup-Winners' Cup tie as "a game of electric chess".
A quick check on-line suggests that if was a European tournament game, then it was probably Feyenoord-Tottenham (first leg), played in Amsterdam on 1 November 1961. Spurs won 3-1 on the night and 4-2 on aggregate. (Although Rangers were also in the competition, the two teams didn't play each other. That came the following year, in the Cup-Winners' Cup, as already stated.)Geoff Chandler wrote: ↑Thu Sep 27, 2018 12:31 pmHi John
Looks like we have our source for possibly the first reporter who started using chess terms when writing about football.John Clarke wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2017 12:18 amremember reading about a newspaper report from 1962 which described the Spurs-Rangers Cup-Winners' Cup tie as "a game of electric chess".
CHESS 11th November 1961 (page 47)
"The first half was full of brilliance....a game of electric chess - Brian Glanville describing a Tottenham Hotspur win in the Sunday Times."