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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
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
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
Re: Media comments on chess
Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2019 5:52 pm
by Christopher Kreuzer
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."