Media comments on chess

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Chris Rice » Sat Jul 17, 2021 6:48 pm

Here's an example of what might be streaming from Trafalgar Square tomorrow. Danny Rensch v MVL in a bullet giant chess game.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Stewart Reuben » Sun Jul 18, 2021 2:09 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FPzU4X7A2c
My great nephew, Joseph, attracted my attention to this.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Paul Cooksey » Sun Jul 18, 2021 9:59 am

Daily Mirror - Chess lover Rafa Benitez ready to come out fighting and keep Everton doubters in check

No chess content beyond that he plays with his daughter and, quite rightly, never lets her win

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Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fans argue chess question is 'wrong'

Post by John Upham » Sun Jul 18, 2021 4:22 pm

Who Wants to Be a Millionaire fans argue chess question is 'wrong'


https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tv ... e-21080830

appears to be fairly tedious and the LE web site is dreadful being a Daily Mail style clone site.
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:22 pm

Just came across this piece on Cy Enfield's 1946 Hide And Seek.
"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 Stewart Reuben » Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:13 pm

Hide and Seek is listed in Bob Basalla's original book. But you, Justine, have provided more valuable images,

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Chris Rice » Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:21 am

From the Sunday Mirror

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Thu Jul 22, 2021 11:22 am

Also see
"Do you play chess?"
"Yes, but I prefer a game with a better chance of cheating."

lostontime.blogspot.com

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Matt Mackenzie » Thu Jul 22, 2021 2:31 pm

Stewart Reuben wrote:
Wed Jul 21, 2021 2:13 pm
Hide and Seek is listed in Bob Basalla's original book. But you, Justine, have provided more valuable images,
Is there something we don't yet know about here? :shock:
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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:42 pm

Today's "i" has a supplement on the 2020 Olympics and explains the new (to the Olympics) sports, which are skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate. For "sport climbing", we are told,

"In bouldering, the route an athlete takes to the top is called a problem - which is appropriate for a sport that can feel like a chess match against gravity."

I'm not entirely sure this description helps much, but a star performer is Runcorn's Shauna Coxsey, with "30 World Cup podiums to her name", so good luck to her.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Matthew Turner » Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:58 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Fri Jul 23, 2021 4:42 pm
Today's "i" has a supplement on the 2020 Olympics and explains the new (to the Olympics) sports, which are skateboarding, surfing, sport climbing and karate. For "sport climbing", we are told,

"In bouldering, the route an athlete takes to the top is called a problem - which is appropriate for a sport that can feel like a chess match against gravity."

I'm not entirely sure this description helps much, but a star performer is Runcorn's Shauna Coxsey, with "30 World Cup podiums to her name", so good luck to her.
Helpful or not, it is an analogy I have heard from multiple people. For example, I think this is very decent chess player, who plays less chess these days because he puts the same skills to use climbing.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Kevin Thurlow » Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:11 pm

"Helpful or not, it is an analogy I have heard from multiple people."

You obviously know more about rock-climbing than me! I would get vertigo walking up Glastonbury Tor.

One of these days, I'll annotate a game and say it's like a game of football...

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by Roger de Coverly » Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:19 pm

Kevin Thurlow wrote:
Fri Jul 23, 2021 6:11 pm
"One of these days, I'll annotate a game and say it's like a game of football...
Watching all that sideways passing across the pitch and back again in the Euro Championship made me wonder if there would ever be any scope for a "not trying to win by normal means" power available to referees, It contrasted with Channel 4's rerun of the 1966 final where both teams mostly were trying to move the ball towards the opponent's end.

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Re: Media comments on chess

Post by JustinHorton » Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:04 pm

Goals per game, World Cup 1966: 2.78
Goals per game, Euro 2020: 2.78
"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 Alex McFarlane » Fri Jul 23, 2021 8:45 pm

JustinHorton wrote:
Fri Jul 23, 2021 7:04 pm
Goals per game, World Cup 1966: 2.78
Goals per game, Euro 2020: 2.78
But at Euro 2020 with all of the goals the ball actually crossed the line!!!

Retreats to avoid flack!!!!

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