So it’s one of those days is it. Drained and counter-productive, not much is likely to occur. That won’t stop me. It won’t change anything. I’ll be back.
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New frog fires gun accidentally, there was no bang but there was a silencer
Posted in Chess on October 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Dead dog learns Spanish old friends set can of coke on fire near an old hosepipe, timepiece falls off book onto notepad in less than an hour just before tea time
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My mood seems to be wobbling a fair bit today. I did want to say something positive but that impetus just isn’t there. A self-absorbed me signs off before content becomes self-indulgent again.
Robber steals ancient I-Phone then goes on the rampage because…because…well he must have had his reasons…assuming he had them in the first place
Posted in Chess on October 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Have you got that same bitter taste in your mouth as I? The cheating storm has taken centre stage yet almost all of it is conjecture. What a bloody let down. Just where is the strife towards perfectionism going to take us? Who knows but when the day comes and we’ve finally moved on, we will all be better for it. Poor old Hans Niemann.
I’ve started playing for my county again although albeit only online. Me thinketh round trips totalling thousands of miles shan’t be played out, and instead, I shall stay here by my tod in this yellowly desert. Yep that’s the plan. So er online games then. Well you get all of three days to make a move but the real challenge comes when you have to prize yourself away from blitz. Too many bad habits have crept in and not enough time is taken when it’s me to move. Snap out of all that I must but how?
Well anyway we’ve got two Sicilians and there’s not much to say about either except in the game where I am black my opponent played a line I think is not very good. I shall know in about ten moves if I am right. But what are we to make of the event itself? OTB chess and online chess are world’s apart. The sense of occasion is lost when you go on line, its all very unserious stuff.
My current form is poor, I’m not usually interested much when I play. It will take months more before the decision making process which envelops chess play is back to what it should be -that being a highly evolved, highly complex phenomenon where I end up badgering myself and repeating the same mistakes.
Do I miss OTB chess? You bet. I miss it more than I can put into words…aha…I know what’s coming here. I am getting all nostalgic. Does this mean another odd post? There’s been more than a few of them in the last few months. I can tell you what it means. It doesn’t mean anything. Above all, I will write more drivel because I like to write. But how anyone could or why anyone would want to read all this stuff I don’t know. If we are being honest, even I don’t like it.
Enormous pencil becomes lost in pocket when chess player looks around the room, which is on fire
Posted in Chess on October 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
The Cordon Trophy was played out two days ago. Despite having no league team, Luton did manage to field a team. By all accounts, a good night was had.
No one will help you, everything will fall apart, you cannot change anything -death comes.
Posted in Chess on October 1, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I don’t know who you are and you don’t know me well, if at all. You are all I’ve got more or less. Something isn’t right and I don’t know why. Why do I have to fight on with no one by my side? No one helps, everything is falling apart, I can’t change anything. I don’t know what to say or do. I don’t know you. I don’t know anything. I don’t know what I am doing.I haven’t lost my way, I just see more. What I see I don’t like. I don’t like it that I am always alone.
Chess player sets head on fire whilst opening a can of pepsi.
Posted in Chess on September 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
There is a dark room all around me, I hear the traffic outside. No one will speak to me, I feel lost. When I die, I won’t feel lonely anymore. What is there to so tonight? I shall play some chess.
Man set on fire loses shoe
Posted in Chess on September 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
I have lost much confidence in the world champion. He’s argument lacks evidence and is egotistical. It’s a poor show.
ye trusty old grapevine
Posted in Chess on September 30, 2022| Leave a Comment »
…I’ve heard there is a black market opening up for cheating devices in chess; like hearing aid, walking stick (with emitter inside) sunglasses with built in lens…
…I shall hunt down this black market and proceed forwards…
Do not double cross F.i.D.e
Posted in Chess on September 29, 2022| Leave a Comment »
Someone has got the chop and rightly so. Hardly surprising you could add also.
Just pawns
Posted in Chess on September 28, 2022| Leave a Comment »
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A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
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Not perhaps, but quintessentially, Old Tom Sweby is best thought of as a passionate devotee to the newspapers he wrote for. He was well read and knowledgeable of the Bedfordshire chess scene and well beyond, given that he was the president of the S.C.C.U. once upon a time. He was generally well-respected and rubbed shoulders with many, if not all, of those eminent within British chess circles. It would, however, be a critical mistake to see his column is primary source material entirely. That it is not. You will also find secondary source material quoted too, and the reliability of that is not quite as Tom hoped. Given that he wrote for decades, this is to some degree inevitable, and after all we are all prone to error whether we realize it or not. Thankfully, with regards to old Tom Sweby, they are infrequent and for the most part old Tom continued to document events and developments in the Bedfordshire league from the get go as best he could but, of course, everything lies open to interpretation. Despite this, and generally speaking. this does indeed make him informative and thus worth reading. Dare I say his columns constitute a narrative describing the latest developments, match reports and changing nature of the Beds league...he knew his audience and wrote according. This manifested itself over decades but brevity was always in play courtesy of the restictions imposed by writing a column. Should you wish to read a in instrumental figure of the Beds' league post WW2, you are quite welcome to peruse what has been posted here... . :-) I should, however, point out that as the decades wore on he gradually moved on away from narratives concerning the Bedfordshire league towards affairs both historical and international. The reasons for this are multifarous, old age was a predominante factor presumably, however, the bottom line is with regards to how the Bedfordshire chess scene developed post WW2: old Tom Sweby is your go to guy. He wrote more about chess in Bedforshire than anyone else did but given he was a Lutonian and writing for a Luton newspaper there is both bias and greater coverage of his hometown than the rest of the county.
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