Too quick for me again! Hope you enjoyed it. Speak soon
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Too quick for me again! Hope you enjoyed it. Speak soon
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Part 3 of the blog series underway - will be posted in a couple of weeks. One of Steinitz's last great games.
A workman paints the frame of one of the famous gas holders while beneath him the 5th Ashes Test takes place, The Oval, August 14th 1964
I hate to think how much the entire archive might be worth. I would have loved to go to Bamberg and spend a month with the whole thing. Just the most amazing collection.
Obviously! I am amazed it took you so long to realise such a straightforward link!!🤣.
Ah, happy memories. Correspondence chess post cards and Reg Gillman.
An exciting discovery in the @englishchess.bsky.social Library: 2 bundles containing postcards & papers belonging to Peggy Clarke, joint British ladies’ #chess champion & International Correspondence Lady Master. Perfect for #WomensHistoryMonth #IWD @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory
Looking forward to the article - don't forget to post a link to remind me! The latest quarterly for chess history might I treat you - lots of match results for the London ladies club matches.
Oh, come on mate! You are way too quick for me to post the link myself!! I hope all is well with you - off on a few days away next weekend onwards, so apologies in advance if I do not keep up. Cheers.
Make a change to have ice involved in the chess analogy. Watched a bit of it earlier, and, like in chess, you have a time control!!
Of course! Well, sort of. I am old and remembered the game🤣
Not as simple as it looks!
Blog in progress, after a delay for real life. A game which changed chess thinking forever. Steinitz was rather special.
No, I didn't solve it.☹️. Rather beautiful isn't it
One of my many Morphy 4 routes: I beat Ron Bruce, who beat Jacques Mieses, who beat Louis Paulsen, who beat Paul Morphy, all in tournament games.
A similar line is through Atkins who played casual games with Owen - who played Morphy at odds - iirc. I only count tournament games other than with Morphy's opponents, otherwise I would have Ritson - Atkins - Owen. There is a picture from the Anderssen - Morphy match with Mortimer there I think.
I ran a Leicester Poly team in the county league for a year and a half, and twice played Alf Lenton's son Philip. I've written about Alf, whom I later met twice on my Minor Pieces website.
See articles 58-64 for some of my articles about chess in Leicester.
minorpieces.uk/index/
‘The BCCI… have, like Trump, overreached. If they don’t learn to play nice with other members of the ICC from a position of strength, they will find out, like Trump’s America is starting to, that no country by itself can ever be the only game in town.’
www.telegraphindia.com/opinion/cric...
Happy gravy day George mate! Chicken in the crispy skit round and round thing, while I work out my new clicky cat door. The humans I own out it in to keep out the bad cats! Have a good one. Norm the Garden Guard Cat.
Ah, it seems very quiet in Ahmedabad at the moment. Those'passionate Indian 'cricket fans'. appreciating good cricket, whoever is playing it.🤣
A photo from Timman's Twitter featuring his cat Artemis on a chessboard and a number of antique chess sets in an apartment. https://x.com/GMJanTimman/status/1687498481638711296
Timman was also one of the people I missed most when leaving Chess twitter. He shared endgame studies he was working on and weekly quotes from other players on chess. Plus this gem: his cat Artemis with what appears to be an amazing collection of antique chess sets. I would love to see the rest
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Black-and-white photograph of Vera Menchik, the pioneering first Women's World Chess Champion, seated at a chessboard in deep concentration during a game or study session. She rests her chin on her clasped hands, elbows on the table, gazing intently downward at the board with a calm, focused expression. Menchik has dark hair pulled back and wears a long-sleeved cardigan or sweater. The chessboard in the foreground displays a mid-game position with black and white pieces in play, including prominent kings, queens, bishops, knights, rooks, and pawns. Behind her, heavy dark curtains frame a bright window letting in natural light.
In 1927, Vera Menchik became the first Women's World Chess Champion at age 21 & is the longest-reigning women's champion in #chess history.
She defended the title 7 times, held it undisputed until her tragic death in 1944 at age 38 in a V-1 rocket bombing during #WWII. She was born #OTD in 1906.
Chess is, socially, a great game. Chess clubs are a social group, as well as a competitive one, imho.
