Media comments on chess

[Stewart Reuben]

Kevin, You are correct. Less and less like a chessboard then.
David, I wrote that I had never seen, nor heard of such a CHESSboard.

[Geoff Chandler]

They are playing 'Deep Sea Chess' on a 7 (the seven seas) by 6 (the six oceans) board.

The aim is not checkmate but to capture every piece.



White wins as Black cannot avoid losing their last piece. (space reserved for fish/chess joke which was too corny even for me)

Just out of curiosity I thought I'd google 'Deep Sea Chess' and there is such a site.

https://www.deepseachess.com/

[Stewart Reuben]

MARIA EAGLE, labout MP, this week introduced the 'Public Advocate Bill' whih intends to appoint an independent adviser to work on behalf of families bereaved in major disasters.

[Kevin Thurlow]

Good luck with some of the captions, but this had some points of interest.

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/teatrovista ... ity-chess/

[JustinHorton]

Andrew McGettigan for the London Review of Books blog

[Roger de Coverly]

Andrew McGettigan for the London Review of Books blog

To judge from his grading record, the author has relatively recently returned to highish level amateur OTB chess after a long absence.

http://ecfgrading.org.uk/new/menu.php?f ... de=129029A

[JustinHorton]

Yeah, I played Andrew in local Oxford chess in the Nineties

[Mick Norris]

Chess, not Checkers NFL draft report from the Pittsburgh Steelers starts with

“Chess doesn’t drive people mad, it keeps mad people sane.” – Bill Hartston

which I assume is the first time Bill has been quoted in an American Football Report, and later has

Were the picks on Friday sexy? No, not really. But chess isn't a flashy game. It's a game that requires skill, intelligence and thinking ahead.

and

The NFL Draft can be likened to chess in a lot of ways. It's strategic. It's a game that rewards those who set themselves up nicely.

The Steelers played on the same board as everybody else, but used different pieces. Whether those pieces are of immediate value or not remains to be seen. However, Kevin Colbert and company may be yelling checkmate as early as 2021's offseason.

[Nick Grey]

Good article Mick. The NFL Draft seems like correspondence chess.

My son misses playing in the British American Football League-maybe 2021 we will see some sport.

[JustinHorton]

File under brief glimpses, but I was just watching series two episode five of the great French occult police series Zone Blanche (Black Spot) and when the inspector from the Department of the Environment, Delphine Garnier, is logging on to her computer, the wallpaper appears to depict a number of chess pieces.

[Paul McKeown]

Deleted. Wrong thread.

[JustinHorton]

Some people really can't help themselves. They spew forth obnoxious, cretinous shite, as if from some diabolic cloaca. It is written that Jesus wept. He certainly would if were to see some of this trash.

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[Paul McKeown]

Wrong thread.

[NickFaulks]

Some people really can't help themselves. They spew forth obnoxious, cretinous shite, as if from some diabolic cloaca. It is written that Jesus wept. He certainly would if were to see some of this trash.

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What thread was it supposed to be in?

[Matt Mackenzie]

Some people really can't help themselves. They spew forth obnoxious, cretinous shite, as if from some diabolic cloaca. It is written that Jesus wept. He certainly would if were to see some of this trash.

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What thread was it supposed to be in?

It actually is in the "Worrying times" thread.