Media comments on chess

[Tim Spanton]

"It's a chess game, isn't it?" St Louis Cardinals broadcaster Jim Hayes on roster moves

[JustinHorton]

Today's Google Doodle features a chess piece

[Wadih Khoury]

Today's Google Doodle features a chess piece

If you scroll the doodles, it takes you through the story of the Count of Monte Cristo, and shows a slide with a King in an empty chest.

[JustinHorton]

Ah yes, I noticed, this is what I was drawing to people's attention

[Chris Rice]

Another chess tv series on Netflix is due to start in October.

The trailer for The Queen's Gambit looks very interesting but it does kind of reinforce the media stereotype that to play chess you have to have a lot of issues. In this one eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the US Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.

[Geoff Chandler]

I hope they keep in the film the bit: "....she purposely avoids the endgame as she doesn’t like it,"

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Have to take enforced redundancy so with all this spare time think I'll write my chess novel.
You lot will be in it and I'll be bumping you off one by one using openings as chess clues for the detective (me) to follow.

One will be trampled by a Hippopotamus, another shot with a Kalashnikov, another burn't to death by a Dragon,
pecked to death by a Vulture, murdered with rat poison etc...and you will never guess what I have planned for the Fried Liver.

[NickFaulks]

Don't forget the Sicilian.

[Mick Norris]

I hope they keep in the film the bit: "....she purposely avoids the endgame as she doesn’t like it,"

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3259&p=153969&hilit ... is#p153969

Have to take enforced redundancy so with all this spare time think I'll write my chess novel.
You lot will be in it and I'll be bumping you off one by one using openings as chess clues for the detective (me) to follow.

One will be trampled by a Hippopotamus, another shot with a Kalashnikov, another burn't to death by a Dragon,
pecked to death by a Vulture, murdered with rat poison etc...and you will never guess what I have planned for the Fried Liver.

I like Hippos Geoff

Sorry to hear about the redundancy, hope you are ok

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Have to take enforced redundancy so with all this spare time think I'll write my chess novel."

Commiserations on the redundancy and good luck with the book. I was alsopondering a chess-related murder mystery, but I doubt I'll ever do it.

I was recalling that old (1970s/80s?) murder mystery film based on Shakespeare plays, but can't remember the title. (edit yes I can - Theatre of Blood.) I think there's a market for such a book/film with a chess theme.

[Roger de Coverly]

I was recalling that old (1970s/80s?) murder mystery film based on Shakespeare plays, but can't remember the title. (edit yes I can - Theatre of Blood.)

Early seventies wasn't it? Vincent Price, Ian Hendry, Diana Rigg etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theatre_of_Blood

[Simon Rogers]

I hope they keep in the film the bit: "....she purposely avoids the endgame as she doesn’t like it,"

viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3259&p=153969&hilit ... is#p153969

Have to take enforced redundancy so with all this spare time think I'll write my chess novel.
You lot will be in it and I'll be bumping you off one by one using openings as chess clues for the detective (me) to follow.

One will be trampled by a Hippopotamus, another shot with a Kalashnikov, another burn't to death by a Dragon,
pecked to death by a Vulture, murdered with rat poison etc...and you will never guess what I have planned for the Fried Liver.

Sorry to hear about your redundancy.
Good luck with your novel.
Make sure you autograph my copy.
All the best
Simon.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Lads,

Happy taking it, I'm 69 only worked a few nights because of the banter and keeping my one brain cell active.
Now I've stopped (end of next month) I can fill out all the OAP forms and get all the rebates etc...

Because my eyes have gone a bit bad they (the work) got me large screen, wonder if I can take it with me. (I will).

Often hear the European OAP's are better off but if you claim your full quota for everything you are OK
and I think better off and of course being ex army I get all kinds of other things from my old mob.
free holidays homes for a week or the weekend, christmas hamper...etc...they even sent me a free face mask with my regiment badge on it!



Not the exact same one, but it gives you an idea of what they look like.
I'll wear it with my five medals and Wife's Iron Cross ( ) on Remembrance Sunday

Have decided I'll be be called Johnny Sheffield 'the detective with the steel sharp mind'.
I thought about being Johnny Oxford after what I think is the best Hancock episode 'The Missing Page'.
It's up there with 'Blood Donor' and 'Radio Ham' (there is Chess in that! 'King's Pawn to Queen's Bishop Three. Check!)

[Stewart Reuben]

Chris Rice >I hope they do NOT keep in the error fairly near the end of the book Queen's Gambit. But I am relying on my memory from 35 years ago. Also it was difficult as moves, when described, were in Descriptive and not in notation.

[Nick Grey]

I gave up The Queen's Gambit on reading the book. Look forward to 23/10 on Netflix. NO covid masks. Descriptive takes me back.

[JustinHorton]

I've not seen Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls and only just become aware that some chess pieces appear in the film - and then disappear.