Media comments on chess

[David Sedgwick]

(I'm quite intrigued by this. You'd have thought, since the questions of politicians who play chess does come up now and again, that a player of that standard in the European Parliament and the House of Lords might have been better known.)

Better known to whom?

Lord Harrison, as he now is, is the Treasurer of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Chess.

See http://www.publications.parliament.uk/p ... /chess.htm. Most members of this Forum will recognise the name of the person named as the "Public Enquiry Point".

I met him (Harrison) at the last London Chess Classic. He told me, with some relish, that he was admitted to the House of Lords just as the hereditary peers were being ejected.

[JustinHorton]

(I'm quite intrigued by this. You'd have thought, since the questions of politicians who play chess does come up now and again, that a player of that standard in the European Parliament and the House of Lords might have been better known.)

Better known to whom?

Heh, well, me as much as anybody else, but I confess I've not seen his name come up before so I'm kind of extrapolating my own ignorance to whatever extent I think I can get away with.

[Brian Towers]

More to the point, what committees is he on and what plans do the ECF have for lobbying him? And if not, why not?

[Tristan Clayton]

BBC Radio 4's rather excellent The Museum of Curiosity welcomed William Hartston as one of the guests in last week's episode:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b070cz5y

[Mick Norris]

(I'm quite intrigued by this. You'd have thought, since the questions of politicians who play chess does come up now and again, that a player of that standard in the European Parliament and the House of Lords might have been better known.)

Better known to whom?

Heh, well, me as much as anybody else, but I confess I've not seen his name come up before so I'm kind of extrapolating my own ignorance to whatever extent I think I can get away with.

I didn't know his name either

Then again, whereas Yasmin is very familiar to those of us in Bolton, and I am sure knows Julian Clissold, her name may mean nothing to most

[Bob Clark]

Lord Lyndon Harrison was a strong player, approx 180 -190 in the late eighties.
He played regularly for Chester in the local chess leagues and if I remember correctly was part of the team that won the Merseyside league and the NCCU club championship.
He gave up playing after he was elected as an MEP, although he did briefly come down to the junior club later with his son.
He also played against Kasparov in the simul at Chester.

[Kevin Thurlow]

Private Eye No 1412, 19/2/16 - 3/3/16, page 40.

Two people are sitting at a chess board (the right way round) and the commentator says, "The match is too close to call, as both contestants are fast asleep."

White appears to have played 1.f4.

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[JustinHorton]

That constitutes a media comment on chess?

[Brian Towers]

That constitutes a media comment on chess?

What other meaning does "fianchetto" have apart from the chess one? If none then it is as much a media comment on chess as "It's a game of chess" when referring to a game from another sport.

[JustinHorton]

I don't think it meaningfully constitutes a media comment, or indeed a comment, on anything.

[Chris Rice]

Joke 6 of 100 jokes by 100 comedians in the Telegraph online....

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comedy/comed ... -phillips/

[Neil Graham]

The BBC regale us with an important story of chess playing in the Urals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35634119

[JustinHorton]

Piece in the Guardian by Oliver James touches on the Polgar sisters. One slightly obscure sentence:

The second daughter had 10 straight wins against male grandmasters, a performance rated the fifth best in the history of chess.

Does this mean Rome, where she scored 8.5/9?

[Roger de Coverly]

Fifth best what, precisely?

That would have been Sofia in an Italian tournament. At the time, was it not a record performance rating?