RHP mentioned in a non-chess book.

by greenpawn34 on Aug 30 2017 19:15 | 1399 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Aug 30 2017 19:17

A few weeks back we look at a cock-up regarding a chess stamp with the wrong picture.
Look at this set of four chess stamps from Sierra Leone. Who is that on the top left stamp

Answer at the bottom of the page.

Recently I had a reason to be going through this book.....
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Help from all RHP players needed!

by greenpawn34 on Aug 09 2017 17:46 | 3659 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Aug 09 2017 18:16

This book published in 1964....

...starts most of it’s chapters with a chess rule or saying.

I’ve selected a handful and the quest is to find out which book
Len Deighton used when he wrote the book. Can anyone help? ...

The Great Chess Stamp Scandal

by greenpawn34 on Jul 14 2017 15:39 | 3788 views | 4 edits | Last edit on Jul 15 2017 09:50

Where to begin this one....Best I think to start of with the book.

I’ll quickly cover old ground which I’m sure 99% of the planet know.

Fleming uses a chess game in the book It has been established it is this
game Reshevsky - Botvinnik Moscow 1955. I’ll give that game in full at the end. ...

A Chess Jacket and the Salvio Trap

by greenpawn34 on Jun 29 2017 10:03 | 4967 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 29 2017 12:44

Look at them, these are our chess elite...

....and they have been made to wear dull unimaginative jackets.

My Auntie Ethel, the one who disguised herself as a man in WWII
so she could fly Lancaster Bombers, always said; “Never complain
about anything, just improve it. ” I have a new jacket design in mind....

Playing Chess With The Devil.

by greenpawn34 on Jun 14 2017 15:27 | 4697 views | 8 edits | Last edit on Jun 17 2017 12:24

Good evening. Tonight I want to tell you an extraordinary story.

Never mind how it all started. Let’s just say I was in the wrong place at
the wrong time and ended up having to play the Devil at chess for my soul.

We got to this position with Black (the Devil) to play.. ...

‘Chess Combinations and Traps in the Opening.’ .

by greenpawn34 on May 31 2017 18:51 | 5007 views

And apparently....

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The Great Chess Mystery...

by greenpawn34 on May 15 2017 14:29 | 4861 views

...or this piece could be called how to write a chess blog (Part I)

First of all grab an old copy of one of these...

....BCM July 1979. (that is J. J. Löwenthal on the cover.)

Look in the ‘Quotes & Queries’ edited by D.J. Morgan...

Chess in Comic Books and Films

by greenpawn34 on Apr 26 2017 17:57 | 7719 views | 1 edit | Last edit on May 18 2017 10:25

A keen hobby of mine is trying to guess the names of my Comic
Book Heroes or Villains just by looking at the costume they wear.

Usually I get it completely wrong . For instance when I first saw this guy.

I thought ‘That must be ‘The Housewife Scary Man’. (spiders...get it?) ...

The Revenge of Chess Computers

by greenpawn34 on Apr 12 2017 15:15 | 7764 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Apr 13 2017 01:24

A prophetic cartoon from CHESS 1946

“I take a poor view of that ‘mediocre’ remark of yours, Mountbatten.”

The computer was replying to this:

It appears computers, like elephants, do not forget and we can blam...

The 100 move Chess Maze and The Simpsons

by greenpawn34 on Apr 02 2017 11:46 | 4307 views

If you have just come out of a 3 month drunken coma then news to
you will be that Magnus Carlsen has appeared on The Simpsons.

I’ll put a link to the chess bit at the bottom of this page.
Meanwhile here are a couple of scenes from the show.

The episode is called: 'The Cad And The Hat' Homer is playing his dad at chess...

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