Leonard Barden's last Evening Standard column
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Matt Mackenzie
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Re: Leonard Barden's last Evening Standard column
Oh dear, what a shame, never mind
"Set up your attacks so that when the fire is out, it isn't out!" (H N Pillsbury)
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John Clarke
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Re: Leonard Barden's last Evening Standard column
Or, as another military comedy from a couple of decades earlier expressed it: "Still, never mind, eh?"
"The chess-board is the world ..... the player on the other side is hidden from us ..... he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance."
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
(He doesn't let you resign and start again, either.)
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Stewart Reuben
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Re: Leonard Barden's last Evening Standard column
We, who attempt to popularie chess, or resist its public decay in England, should mind dreadfully.
It is sacrilege,
It is sacrilege,