by greenpawn34 on Jun 16 2022 10:20 | 4280 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jun 16 2022 22:50
Every Thursday and Sunday afternoon there is chess in Edinburgh’s
Princes St. Gardens. I go along most days to meet some old buddies
(and I mean old), catch up with the gossip and play a few blitz games.
Last Sunday a bunch of artists turned up to sketch Edinburgh Castle.
(I have since invented the collective term for artists is a ‘paint pot’.)
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by greenpawn34 on May 26 2022 21:39 | 8250 views | 1 edit | Last edit on May 26 2022 21:43
I bought a bag of small plastic babies for 20p and did this (it took me ages.)
A term given to Kings that are getting hounded all over the board often picking up
material on the way with Rooks, Queens, Knights and Bishops shooting at the them.
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I have ordered one, watch this space for soon to seen pictures of me wearing it
(with my chess hat!) and parading along a catwalk at a fashion show in Paris.
I was going through an old scrap book of chess cuttings from ‘The Scotsman’
dated from the mid to late 1800’s. I came across this printed a few weeks apart.
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by greenpawn34 on Mar 19 2022 01:23 | 7304 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 19 2022 02:43
When ever I want a new freshly printed chess book I have a number of choices.
A) Buy it from a retailer. (sometimes I have to do this but books are expensive these days.)
B) Approach the publishers for a freebie to review. This occasionally works even if
you have nowhere to publish your review. For it to work just make up a blog page,...
by greenpawn34 on Mar 02 2022 20:05 | 8126 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 04 2022 00:03
A Zwischenzug is when a player seems to have only one move at their disposal,
usually a recapture, but instead of playing it they slip in another move which has
to be dealt with right away (often a check). Then they play the expected move.
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