Two, perhaps, audaciously theatrical videos here; one on the Milner-Barry Gambit, and the other on the Halloween Gambit. Highly interesting stuff right? Well worth a watch, yes? 10 out of 10 for creativity agreed? Youtube links follow below.
The creator does indeed have his own youtube channel. Do make of it what you will. Quite a find I’d say but nor really my cup of tea tbh.
https://www.youtube.com/@ChessMakta
MJM
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Here Jon Speelman defeats Kasparov. Much quality analysis can be found between the two players also.
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It could be argued that the coverage leaves a lot to be desired, however, it is worth a watch -but only just!
MJM
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You may watch the game or you may flash through it on the link below, either way I am not going to tell you what the bravest move I have ever seen played is, I’m sure you can work it out for yourself.
https://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1956850
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A documentary about the 1990 world championship match has appeared on youtube.
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Here is a documentary about Canada’s first international tournament.
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When those who emerged from the Bedfordshire League compete against one another in national or international tournaments it denotes attention. According to my research so far, the first instance of this occured in 1965 and can be found here: https://mccreadyandchess.wordpress.com/2024/12/16/the-red-corner-and-the-blue-corner/. Courtesty of some social media chat, I more recently learnt that all of the Ledger brothers have played GM Plaskett at national or international level, with all of the Ledger brothers achieving results at some stage or another.
IM A. Ledger v GM Plaskett British Championship 1997
https://www.365chess.com/game.php?gid=1226047
FM D. Ledger v GM Plaskett Gibraltar 2003
https://chesstempo.com/game-database/game/h-james-plaskett-vs-dave-j-ledger/101052
S. Ledger v GM Plaskett Hastings 90/91 (no gamescore available. Refer to the crosstable: GM Plaskett No. 58 S. Ledger No. 96) https://www.saund.co.uk/britbase/pgn/199012hast-viewer.html
Well done the ledger brothers for achieving results against former BMS pupil and British champion GM Plaskett.
Mark. J. McCready
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For different reasons, united mostly by a sense of disappointment, the 2018 world championship match between GM Carlsen and GM Caruana isn’t well-remembered.
However, I enjoyed it and followed all the way through. The participants can be found in the video below discussing some of their games. Have they hoisted themselves by their own petard here? Better to say that honesty is the best policy, whether it be complimentary or uncomplimentary isn’t it?. Better still, that analysis is so often ad hoc or ad lib and based on calculation and recall in all its many guises, with a few extras thrown in!
If I had been participating and asked why all games were drawn in the classical format, I would have sung not spoken (see below) :-).
MJM
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How did Karpov lose to this? White to play and win (it’s not hard).
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A side note on how to read old Tom Sweby's columns
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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