Media comments on chess

[John Upham]

Of course, we must not forget :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXNhL4J_S00

[Kevin Thurlow]

"Nigel Mansell"

Yes, he was mentioned as well. I doubt he would fly in from IoM, or our own Nigel would dash in from Greece!

[Stewart Reuben]

Falsettos has just opened at 'The Other Palace in London. [email protected])
One of the songs is about a child's love of chess and later in the play how his attitude matures as he gets older.

[Brian Towers]

Titania McGrath on Twitter:

Thank you @Hasbro for MS MONOPOLY. Woman need this kind of head start in order to help them to feel empowered.

Now we just need MS CHESS, where the Queen lounges about at the back of the board while the King runs around doing all the hard work for a change.

[Tim Spanton]

From the September issue of Literary Review: "Dealing with German intelligence was 'like playing chess with someone not quite so good as oneself; with the Japanese, it was like setting up the chessboard against an adversary whose one idea was to punch you on the nose'."

https://beauchess.blogspot.com/

[Stewart Reuben]

I was flicking through BBC1 just now, preparing to turn my TV off. I came across an episode of 'New Tricks' which was already partway over. It was a rerun of an episode called, 'The English Defence'.
The detectives talked about 66 consecutive wins in a one on one match and that must surely be a record. Well, yes. One or both of the plaers would get bored.
Then Denns Waterman spoke about White opening with the Budapest. That would be a clever trick, it being 1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e5.
There is a chess club in an educational establishment where you see a demonstration board of a design new to me.
The baddie is captured towards the end with his head held close to a board. Dennis picks up a piece, slams it on the board and says, 'Checkmate!'
The episode concludes with a chess game where Dennis falls for Scholar's Mate against another of the detectives.

By the way, I am fairly sure the culprit was supposed to be a strong chessplayer. That is normal, althugh it doesn't invariably apply.

[Paul Habershon]

By the way, I am fairly sure the culprit was supposed to be a strong chessplayer. That is normal, althugh it doesn't invariably apply.

Yes, I expect many remember the Conan Doyle/Sherlock Holmes villain for whom the quotation goes something like 'Amberley excelled at chess, Watson, one mark of the scheming mind,'

Edited as I couldn't bear the disgrace of omitting the l from Holmes.

[Stewart Reuben]

VITABIOTICS has an ad on TV with various young children showing precocious talents. One of these is chess.

[John Upham]

On the most recent episode of The Chase :

During which chess manoeuvre may the King move more than one square ?

[Geoff Chandler]

From latest Mad Magazine

[JustinHorton]

Is the cartoon dated? I can't make it out from that image.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Justin

It's No.9 Oct 2019.

I bought it today at the Post Office sending off all my weekend E-Bay sales.
The queue was quite long so I grabbed the mag to browse whilst waiting....end up buying it (£3.25)

This next pic was sent to me today my one of my world wide spies.
I have 100's of them all over the planet looking for anything chess connected.

A bus named after Bobby Fischer.

[JustinHorton]

Is the cartoon dated? I can't make it out from that image.

It's No.9 Oct 2019.

The cartoon, not the magazine

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Justin,


No date on cartoon. Caption in black reads: The Joke and Dagger Dept.
Morse code on bottom of cartoon says B.C. P.R.O.H.M.A.T. Artist is Peter Kuper...it's on page 8.

[JustinHorton]

Ah, that's a shame. I'm assuming it's actually an old cartoon.