2018 Chess Olympiad and a Cardboard Box

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Oct 10 2018 09:45 | 1856 views

A picture of a cardboard box with the word CHESS on it.

...er....that’s it.

This charming wee book dropped into my lap a few days ago.

page 40 has this to chapter...

The Unicorn and the Cyclops + the 2018 Olympiad

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Sep 25 2018 18:09 | 2689 views

A Unicorn playing with a Cyclops is an accident waiting to happen.

The Unicorn and Cyclops syndrome in Chess is a Rook and King.
Often in Rook endings the worse thing you can do is have them
playing together on adjoining squares. Accidents waiting to happen. ...

The Backward Facing Knight and Lolli

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Sep 05 2018 16:59 | 1445 views

Picked this book up on the 1986 Kasparov - Karpov World Championship
by Wade, Miles, Bronstein, Hartston....(phew!).... Blackstock, Martin....

Here is a picture of the cover listing all the names.

It’s OK, reasonable notes, nice bit of background chit chat and the book is built
to last (a lot of my books fall to pieces during study), but.....there is always a but...

Bronstein and Chris de Burgh

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Aug 28 2018 01:46 | 1974 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Sep 04 2018 23:25

Did You Know No.182.

That Chris de Burgh brought out a CD called ‘Best Moves’
and on the cover is a famous position from a Bronstein game.

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Four Chess Books (what a naff blog title)

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Aug 21 2018 22:16 | 1766 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Aug 24 2018 11:05

The Edinburgh Festival is in full swing so to avoid it I visited an out of
town book shop I had not been to for a while. Oh Joy. I picked up four
books all for £1.00 or £2.00 each. So a quick review and the challenge
of finding an RHP game I can link too. I find two out of four...Not bad.

The first thing I noticed was that of the 60 pages 27 were devoted to Draughts and...

Chess for Dummies and a Pop-Up Book

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Aug 06 2018 22:31 | 1084 views

This is the painting ‘Cornered’ by G.C. Hindley circa 1900

A large copy of this painting hangs on the wall of the Edinburgh Chess Club.
We have on some evenings re-created the position in the painting on the board

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Chess, The Camel and Zwischenzug

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Jul 20 2018 13:09 | 2176 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jul 24 2018 20:27

This advert appeared after Arnold Denker won the USA Championship in 1944.

I have resized each pic to save your weary old eyes from squinting.

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A Chess Coincidence and 1813

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Jul 03 2018 21:18 | 3405 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Jul 26 2018 13:56

Hands up everyone who knows about Egerton Smith (1774-1842 ).

1. 32-33 47-45
2. 22 -24 58-14
Is Fool’s Mate.

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The Curse of the Electronic Chessboard

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Jun 13 2018 11:19 | 4853 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 13 2018 11:26

Hello again and first question of the day is...What is this?

It is infact the mascot for the 2018 Chess Olympiad which is being held
in Batumi, Georgia from the 23rd of September to the 6th of October.
I have not been able to find out the turtles name. All I can find is ‘The Turtle.’

The dates are important because the World title match between Carlsen and...