Media comments on chess

[JustinHorton]

"In chess, you can just give up, can't you?"

- from the cricket commentary on Talksport just a moment ago.

[Stewart Reuben]

Arturo Perez Reverte a famous Spanih novelist, 'A LONG TIME AGO, I REPLCED GOD WITH CHESS'.

Leontxo Garcia told us this at dinner in Gibraltar Monday night.

[JustinHorton]

Not sure that Leontxo García saying something in conversation constitutes a media comment, but whatever

[Mick Norris]

I'm currently reading What We Become by Arturo Perez-Reverte, which features quite a bit of chess in the story (not for the first time cf The Flanders Panel)

[Geoff Chandler]

Spotted this inside a May 2002 VIZ.

[Stewart Reuben]

Geff, that is real find. Thank you. How old-fashioned to use English descriptive in 2002.

[Geoff Chandler]

Hi Stewart,

I blanked out the rude f-word between Bamber and Gascoigne.

I checked, could not see anymore. (if one has slipped through then I'm sorry)

[David Gilbert]

Geff, that is real find. Thank you. How old-fashioned to use English descriptive in 2002.

Well Deep Blue made a guest appearance on Futurama on Tuesday night (it was an episode from 2016) and it was speaking descriptive. The machine is introduced......

Al Gore: And our summer intern, Deep Blue, the world's foremost chess-playing computer.
Deep Blue: Bishop to knight 4.
[Gore pats Deep Blue.]
Al Gore: Not all missions can be solved with chess, Deep Blue. Someday you'll understand that.

Later Deep Blue blurts out "Pawn to Rook 8".

So far as the non-playing chess-world is concerned, descriptive has never gone away.

[JustinHorton]

The Guardian's weekly round-up of You Tube sport videos includes

Chess player Hikaru Nakamura doesn’t like what he sees on the next table at the Gibraltar Open.

[Reg Clucas]

The Guardian's weekly round-up of You Tube sport videos includes

Chess player Hikaru Nakamura doesn’t like what he sees on the next table at the Gibraltar Open.

Looks more like he thinks Aronian has made an unpleasant smell!

[Matt Mackenzie]

Its arguable that, metaphorically speaking, that is exactly what he did

[LawrenceCooper]

"It's going to be a chess game" Paul Ince prediction for the second half of Man U v PSG.

[Matt Mackenzie]

If so, it was somewhat one sided

[Bob Kane]

A movietone compilation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO-69mmm-s&ut=

[Stewart Reuben]

Thank you Bob for finding that. I was too young to have ever known Alekhine or Flohr.
I only knew Elaine by her married name, Pritchard. She told me she remembered sitting on Vera Menchik's knee.