I posted the following on fb nine years ago to the day.
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on this day…
Posted in Chess, Life beyond the chess board on January 4, 2021| Leave a Comment »
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Posted in Life beyond the chess board, On-line journal on January 3, 2021| Leave a Comment »
A mere 26 years on, since I ran away from the responsibility of being Tournament Organizer at my home club, I’m back at it again. The difference is, this time its all on-line quickplay stuff, which is a damn site easier to do than club championships where more than half never even shown up once!
When it’s cool for cats it’s…?
Posted in Life beyond the chess board, My own warped humour on January 1, 2021| Leave a Comment »
Some sentiment be…
Posted in Life beyond the chess board, Viz inspired material on December 29, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Opening theory kinda carpe diem na?
Posted in Life beyond the chess board on December 28, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Apologies for the somewhat pretentious title. Carpe Diem refers to seizing the moment and the question particle ‘na’ is both informal and something used in speech in the Thai language. But who in their right mind thinks that below is worth illustrating? Titillation aside, what could the motive possibly be for showing this chess porn? It comes form a side line in the Vienna Gambit. And what on earth could be gained from studying this? This is one example where chess theory is best abandoned.
A trip down memory lane…
Posted in Life beyond the chess board, Selected on-line games on December 25, 2020| Leave a Comment »
World Championships Analytics 1
Posted in Life beyond the chess board, World Championships Analytics on December 17, 2020| Leave a Comment »
You might want to consider the following, the main factors to assess are; rook activity, pawn structures and just how defendable is that white a pawn?
Which century are we in?
Posted in Life beyond the chess board, Selected on-line games on October 21, 2020| Leave a Comment »
I can’t say I ever was an admirer of Steiniz tbh. In fact with Morphy no longer on the scene, it wasn’t until Alekhine imperially rose to the throne, that chess became worth looking at in close detail.
I always thought his wandering king was just dubious conceptually, and likely to be his downfall eventually. So what am I doing playing the opening theory in fashion during his reign, and drawing inspiration from his antics? Having fun, that’s what, as the video shows. An amusing victory both antiquated in its approach but highly effective nonetheless.
Olcmarcus
such a swindle & what a fluke
Posted in Life beyond the chess board on October 12, 2020| 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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