The Great Chess Stamp Scandal

by greenpawn34 On Vacation on Jul 14 2017 15:39 | 1223 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 Vacation on Jun 29 2017 10:03 | 4654 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 Vacation on Jun 14 2017 15:27 | 4457 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 Vacation on May 31 2017 18:51 | 4679 views

And apparently....

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The Great Chess Mystery...

by greenpawn34 On Vacation on May 15 2017 14:29 | 4187 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 Vacation on Apr 26 2017 17:57 | 7278 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 Vacation on Apr 12 2017 15:15 | 7556 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 Vacation on Apr 02 2017 11:46 | 4051 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...

Chess Mazes and the Red Pawn Demon

by greenpawn34 On Vacation on Mar 24 2017 16:23 | 4760 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Mar 25 2017 03:32

Have you done a Chess Maze yet?

No? Then Good. I’ll give you the rules..

Only the White piece moves the Black pieces stay rooted on the
spot unless your piece goes to a square where it can be taken...