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Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2019 10:12 pm
by 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.)

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 4:34 pm
by 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.

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2019 8:03 pm
by Ian Thompson
Stewart Reuben wrote:
Thu Oct 17, 2019 12:25 pm
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

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 12:01 am
by 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."

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2019 9:59 am
by Paul Buswell
The Brighton club player Dona Strauss gets a name check in today's Wikipedia 'Did you know...'

PB

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:06 pm
by 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...

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:35 pm
by Matt Mackenzie
You might have thought Dom Cummings could cope with it though, with his GIANT BRAIN and everything :D

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Wed Oct 23, 2019 2:27 am
by John Clarke
Matt Mackenzie wrote:
Tue Oct 22, 2019 10:35 pm
You might have thought Dom Cummings could cope with it though, with his GIANT BRAIN and everything :D
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. :(

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Sun Oct 27, 2019 9:30 am
by JustinHorton
"This is a proper game of chess", the World Rugby Radio commentator-cum-buffoon informs us.

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Mon Oct 28, 2019 1:33 pm
by Stewart Reuben
BBC News at 1 today.

'Like chess pieces on the Brexit Board'.

That is my faulty memory of what was said.

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Sat Nov 02, 2019 7:03 pm
by 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.

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2019 2:51 pm
by Brian Valentine
What young chess players can achieve:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0009zbj

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:52 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
Roland Kensdale wrote:
Thu May 02, 2019 8:28 pm
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

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2019 8:55 pm
by JustinHorton
El Jueves, which (although they're very different) is the closest thing Spain has to Private Eye, offers us a caption contest.

Re: Media comments on chess

Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2019 12:59 am
by 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."