by greenpawn34 on Jul 01 2020 10:19 | 8164 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jul 10 2020 19:59
On the 21st December 1983 Garry Kasparov gave a simultaneous display
against ten junior players at the London headquarters of Acorn computers.
This was not your usual board and pieces affair, it was a computer simul.
Each player had a BBC computer running an Acorn chess playing program.
The juniors keyed in their moves and Gary would appear to key in his reply.
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I do not actually have a copy of this book. I googled it and nicked the image.
I am using the cover because it is the only way for me to spell it correctly and I want
to do a blog about a variation in this opening. ( I do not even know if it is in the book.)
by greenpawn34 on Mar 28 2020 23:20 | 15634 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 28 2020 23:47
What a scoop for Red Hot Pawn. We can ask the current World Chess Champion
questions, hopefully if he reads this and joins Red Hot Pawn he can answer them.
The first question comes from Mrs. B. Knight on the Rim.
by greenpawn34 on Mar 01 2020 22:02 | 7790 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Mar 02 2020 00:52
When I was having my massive clear out (see the previous blog)
I found a few decades worth of CHESS magazine so we kick off
this weeks blog with four covers. You have the guess the year
the Chess event on the cover took place. (the last one is hard.)
(Magnus Carlsen sensational winner of the Grandmaster Tournament at Wijk aan Zee...
by greenpawn34 on Feb 17 2020 15:01 | 14582 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Feb 18 2020 10:15
I have been clearing out my wee study, actually that is a lie. I was looking for
something else and became amazed at all the junk I have that I no longer need.
Loads of notebooks full of master games from the 70’s. I used to copy them
out from library books, now days of course we have home computer databases.
I bravely binned the lot along with old tatty/torn football/speedway programmes...
by greenpawn34 on Feb 06 2020 14:50 | 11192 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Feb 08 2020 12:22
It was Thomas Alva Edison who wiped out more ghosts, ghouls and goblins
than Van Helsing when he invented the electric light bulb in the year 1879
Before we all saw the light we had to make do with wax candles and these things
were not to good at lighting up rooms or corridors. They shimmered with the any
soft breeze causing moving shadows on the walls and our imaginations did the rest.
...
by greenpawn34 on Jan 26 2020 23:19 | 8898 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jan 29 2020 02:24
Outside Sandy Bells in Edinburgh. The position was mean to be this:
k1B5/p3R3/1p6/1K6/8/8/8/7q w - - 0 1
But someone came out when I was setting it up and a dog ate some of the pieces.
A study by A. S. Kakovin It is White to play and draw (solution at the bottom)
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Hello and I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and a Good Year.
Last post was my Christmas Quiz. Looks like most of you enjoyed it.
I am going to show you a puzzle that did not make it because I know
a lot of my audience (that is you the readers) are mostly home and
casual players and I thought it may be a bit too difficult. It is hard.
...
by greenpawn34 on Dec 05 2019 10:54 | 18659 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Dec 06 2019 09:20
Hello, Merry Christmas etc...etc... some of the answers are right below the questions`.
Those that require a more detailed answer are in the 'Answers' section at the bottom.
(1) One condition in Santa’s contract was not only to deliver toys to every corner
of the globe but to also take out ‘The Grinch.’ This is known as Santa’s clause.
...
by greenpawn34 on Nov 17 2019 14:14 | 10697 views | 5 edits | Last edit on Nov 27 2019 13:20
This is all the fault of the Chess Historian Edward Winter.
Nobody knows what Edward Winter looks like...this will do.
Ages ago his site hinted that when Morphy played his famous game at the opera in Paris
1858 the opera being performed may have been Norma by Bellini. So I went and bought it...
by greenpawn34 on Nov 11 2019 09:38 | 6083 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Nov 12 2019 19:34
A King being chased across the 64 squares with a player shooting at it’s
feet still, after all these years, brings out in me a primitive joy of chess.
So when recently a Grandmaster sent another Grandmaster’s King for a walk I just
had to share it with you lot and use it as an excuse to show some of your King Hunts.
...
I’d lost my g1 Knight, but it had been on holiday and has just come back.
In the recent World Cup one of the rapid tie-break games between Teimour Radjabov
and Ding Liren, the Chinese player set a wee trap before resigning. In GM parlance this
is known as a joke move, but it would have been no joke if Radjabov had fallen for it...
Sadly another great player and personality has passed away. Pal Benko.
Mention the name and three things come to mind, the opening that bears
his name, his role in Fischer getting to the 1972 World final v Spassky
and his problem page that ran for many years in Chess Life and Review...
I think it was in 1975...no it was definitely 1976 when....come
to think of it I’m positive it was 1977..,perhaps.. and I’m sitting
there playing over a game from Chernev’s 1,000 - short games.
(I have that bit right) when Ian asked....no...it was Johnny who...
by greenpawn34 on Jul 16 2019 09:30 | 10981 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jul 17 2019 11:04
I picked up this magazine a few weeks ago.
It’s a common theme. A black guy is having a tough time
growing up in his ‘hood’ and is straying towards a criminal
career. But he learns Chess and the game keeps him straight.
It’s good and the artwork is excellent but of course.....
greenpawn34
on Jul 10 2020 15:36 | 948 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jul 11 2020 10:08
11 Jul '20 
