Media comments on chess

[JustinHorton]

Tom Crewe, in the London Review of Books:

...political commentators look down on Westminster as at a chessboard. We keep an eye on the pawns; we consider the positions of the bishops and knights. (The Supreme Court verdict is a judgment on a manoeuvre; it is a marvellous chess move, but not a checkmate.)

[Stewart Reuben]

Justin >Not quite sure what point you're trying to make here<

Not really a point, just collecting media inputs about chess.
But, if you want one, publicity about females playing chess can be very valuable for promoting our sport.

[Ian Thompson]

A very attractive photo in Thursday's Daily Telegraph on page 14.
It shows two girls playing in the ECF Junior Female Championships in Blenheim Palace.

Posted on Twitter - https://twitter.com/BlenheimPalace/stat ... 90/photo/1

[Kevin Thurlow]

Friday Telegraph sport section. Headline, "Long relishes mastering 'game of chess' at Harlequins". Sean Long spent many years involved in Rugby League (which was openly professional) but wants a couple of years in Rugby Union (which is now openly professional after years of pretending to be amateur). Long continued, "It's like rugby league's a game of draughts and rugby union is a game of chess."

[Paul Buswell]

The Brighton club player Dona Strauss gets a name check in today's Wikipedia 'Did you know...'

PB

[Kevin Thurlow]

"News at Ten" has just informed us that "Boris Johnson is playing a complicated game of chess with the EU on one hand and Parliament on the other." (from memory).

Ordinary chess is complicated enough, three-way chess is more difficult...

[Matt Mackenzie]

You might have thought Dom Cummings could cope with it though, with his GIANT BRAIN and everything

[John Clarke]

You might have thought Dom Cummings could cope with it though, with his GIANT BRAIN and everything

I dunno .... brain the size of a planet, and meant to be content with running a little no-account country like England? How could he be expected to cope with that? Very badly, I suspect.

[JustinHorton]

"This is a proper game of chess", the World Rugby Radio commentator-cum-buffoon informs us.

[Stewart Reuben]

BBC News at 1 today.

'Like chess pieces on the Brexit Board'.

That is my faulty memory of what was said.

[JustinHorton]

Delighted to hear the commentator on Sevilla v Atlético refer to the game as "ajedrez", albeit a bit surprised since it's a much less cagey game than you'd expect from that.

[Brian Valentine]

What young chess players can achieve:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009zbj

[Christopher Kreuzer]

The One Show 1.5.19 ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m ... w-01052019 ) at 53.21 Shreyas Royal and his family on their battle to be allowed to stay in the UK. Rachel Reeves appears - she wrote to the Home Secretary.

Not sure where to put this, so popping it here:

https://twitter.com/shrez_royal09/statu ... 2870278144

I have got my first Corporate sponsorship from TATA .
Now I can focus on my games and try to become strong players .It's a great and huge deal for me.
A great news for English Chess.
Thank you so much for supporting me

[JustinHorton]

El Jueves, which (although they're very different) is the closest thing Spain has to Private Eye, offers us a caption contest.

[Colin Patterson]

Double whammy on tonight's American Football highlights (Minnesota Vikings vs Dallas Cowboys):

The commentators first waxed lyrical about Cowboys' Wide Receiver Amari Cooper being- "a quiet guy, who rarely talks ... always practicing his chess in the locker room ... a real student of the game."

Then later, as if shackled to their previous comments, came the inevitable likening of the football game to - "a really interesting game of chess."