Media comments on chess

[Mick Norris]

BBC1 news about to show a piece on Carlsen - Karjakin

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Was trying to find that as a clip to replay, but couldn't find it.

I did find this BBC World Service podcast - it may have been mentioned earlier, but not linked:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04j3ff0 (A Chess Champion & The Last Poets)

Is that worth listening to? How much is on Carlsen, or is it about the documentary-film that has been released in the UK?

[Christopher Kreuzer]

Is this new as well? It is linked from the now-updated BBC News article:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04hqrpj

6-minute clip from BBC Arts: "Magnus: The boy who conquered the chess world".

[Geoff Chandler]

'Airframe' by Michael Crighton, another chess reference. (page 132)

"Talking to a reporter these days was like a deadly chess match;
You had to think several moves; you had to imagine all the possible
ways a reporter might distort your statement."

Good book, very technical and I will never set foot inside an aeroplane again!

[John McKenna]

Hi Geoff, keep the aspidistra flying!

http://www.michaelcrichton.com/airframe/

[Paul Cooksey]

The Guardian's daily football newsletter The Fiver starts as follows today

ITALIAN BISHOPS AND SPANISH OPENINGS?
The world is ridiculous. This week The Fiver has marvelled at the frothy-mouthed excitement that has been generated among nerdy folk with even more time on their hands than us by watching two men with brains the size of swollen marrows thinking really, really hard in public. Like, about as hard as it is possible to think. So hard, in fact, that if you hooked the content of their skulls up to a generator you could power Basingstoke for the weekend – and maybe even Bognor Regis. And guess what? This nerdy trend isn’t going to just blow over like the way trucker caps with stupid slogans on them did in 2005. No, because Pep Guardiola and Antonio Conte are getting their very own version of Carlsen v Karjakin on this weekend, having spent much of the past few days spent hunched over tables glaring intensely at little pieces on a board while trying to second-guess which of the 1,347,567 possible ways Raheem Sterling might move on Saturday. Among other things.

[Ian Thompson]

Judit Polgar about to be on BBC News' "Witness: 100 Women" sometime between now and 5pm.

[Mick Norris]

Spurs player playing chess from a link on the BBC website sports page

[Kevin Thurlow]

All rather gloomy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38418802

Korchnoi and Taimanov are mentioned near the end.

(non-chess note - Unless I'm missing something, Carrie Fisher is mentioned only as a footnote to Debbie Reynolds, and Alan Rickman seems to be omitted entirely.)

[Richard Bates]

All rather gloomy http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38418802

Korchnoi and Taimanov are mentioned near the end.

(non-chess note - Unless I'm missing something, Carrie Fisher is mentioned only as a footnote to Debbie Reynolds, and Alan Rickman seems to be omitted entirely.)

They're in the "notable" celebrities in the pictures at the top.

[Nick Grey]

Nice to see that Korchnoi & Taimanov are under "outstanding in their field".

[Kevin Thurlow]

"They're in the "notable" celebrities in the pictures at the top."

Ah, that would explain it - my browser is refusing to show those!

[Geoff Chandler]

Private Eye, No. 1434, the Christmas Edition has a couple of chess references.

[Christopher Kreuzer]

That is a great cartoon about the London Chess Classic. Perceptive observations! Can anyone recognise any of the players!?

[John Upham]

That is a great cartoon about the London Chess Classic. Perceptive observations! Can anyone recognise any of the players!?

Here is a photograph of

David "Ziggy" Greene:

https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q= ... y%20greene


http://procartoonists.org/tag/david-ziggy-greene/