Grace with her chess set plays moi.
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On this day 2022
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On this day…
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Keeping it together…
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See Gracey Play
Posted in My daughter on May 30, 2026| Leave a Comment »
Grace played in her first tournament in a while.
Sadly, I was not there to be with her this time but her mum was.
N.B The title comes from a Pink Floyd song recently covered by The Damned, who do a better job with it IMHO.
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Lost certificate
Posted in My daughter on December 20, 2025| Leave a Comment »
My meme 20
Posted in Meme, My daughter on October 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Forgotten video
Posted in My daughter on September 16, 2025| Leave a Comment »
When Covid came, I spent more time stuck indoors playing chess than ever before -isn’t that a surprise!
In this video my daughter Grace gets odds of a queen, and as you can see, I’m not exactly the world’s best at making videos.
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Small victories with no cankers but with medallions.
Posted in My daughter on December 1, 2024| Leave a Comment »
It shouldn’t bother me but it does. What’s that then? How comes my daughter is attending more chess events then I am? Once again she’s off helping her mum out whilst I sit alone in a room in a city where I know not one person, with no action going down.
However, I graciously accept this because the more interest my daughter has in chess, the better I will feel. Long may it continue…I mean them assisting in chess tournaments not me sitting all by myself here, unable to get a slice of the action, as Aristotle once said: fuck that shit fuck that dude.
On and on it goes. We put the work in but there is no job to do. You could say we just do what we gotta do. Let us hope in the coming month there will be times where I can play chess and watch my daughter play too. I have time off coming up, so let’s see.
Yelling with my mouth shut: ‘the good news is Grace is getting more involved in chess now, small victories is what we are gettin’.
Gracey the creative
Posted in My daughter on May 22, 2024| Leave a Comment »
As any loving father would do, I call my daughter frequently when away from her to check up on how she is, what she is doing, and what -if anything- she needs.
Today, when I asked her what she is doing, she said she is playing chess. She then showed me
Even though I’ve spent over half my life playing chess, I can’t say what sort of opening this is. If black were to play 2. …a6 next, then it would most likely transpose into the St. George’s Defence, which is not usually met by an early Be2, although the bishop does sometimes go there.
Creative Gracey.
Gracey, aged 7, plays chess
Posted in My daughter on May 10, 2024| Leave a Comment »
On this day 2010, my daughter Grace plays chess with me during the dreaded covid lockdown when my parental duties were elevated somewhat.
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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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