The 2018 World Chess Championship...BOO!

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Dec 04 2018 16:26 | 866 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Dec 06 2018 02:30

Well that was fun.

After 12 games, 12 draws and 3 rapid 25 minutes games Magnus Carlsen is still
the World Champion, the challenger Fabiano Caruana is now $510,000 richer and
we are all standing about, scratching our heads and wondering what just happened.

Punters on Chess Forums all over the net are coming up with suggestion...

Caruana - Carlsen, Game 5 and I was there.

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Nov 18 2018 16:27 | 5545 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Nov 18 2018 19:55

I went down to London for game 5 of the Carlsen - Caruana Match.

This is me outside the venue with people queuing up to get in.

And what was it like inside....

...I’ve no idea because you could not buy a ticket at the door and...

Back Rank Mates and Chess Stamps

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Oct 31 2018 14:27 | 7244 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Nov 01 2018 10:35

“There are two kinds of chess player - those that have been back rank
mated and those that are going to be back rank mated.” Russian proverb.

No amount of reading, studying or prior warnings will suffice. You
will only learn the Back Rank lesson when it has happened to you. ...

On The Trail Of The Lone Bishop Mate.

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Oct 24 2018 13:02 | 3671 views

I drew that at work. My skill in all fields has no known boundaries.

I was on Edward Winter’s Chess Notes site looking for something else,
whilst there I stumbled across a section on single Bishop Checkmates.

Mr Winter gives some nice examples a few of which I will use to set us off...

2018 Chess Olympiad and a Cardboard Box

by greenpawn34 View Profile on Oct 10 2018 09:45 | 3356 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 | 3453 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 | 1624 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 | 2102 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 | 1898 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 | 1407 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

1R4K1/6PP/8/3q2n1/8/Q7/2R5/4k3 w - - 0 ...

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