by greenpawn34 on Feb 04 2015 01:19 | 6951 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Feb 04 2015 18:39
Too me, poets are lank haired unemployable shiftless individuals
I fail to see the need for them or how they ever came into being.
Obviously while most of our ancestors were out fighting Mammoths
a few members of the tribe sat around and painted on the cave walls.
These hangers on no doubt evolved into poets, artists and lawyers.
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by greenpawn34 on Jan 12 2015 00:45 | 4402 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Jan 12 2015 13:17
First this.
by A.Gopalaratnam (published 2006)
As beginner’s books go it is OK. Some of the examples of play are very good.
However, there is one piece of advice I have never seen in any beginner’s book.
The author wants you set up the pieces on a table with two chairs. You make the...
(actually it’s a lot older than that…a lot older, but it’s going through a mid life crisis so be kind.)
As is normal with all end of year blogs, columns, chess magazines etc..and etc…
One can fob off the readers with selections of the best of bits of the previous year.
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by greenpawn34 on Dec 21 2014 16:38 | 4739 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Jul 16 2022 11:06
Yippee it’s Christmas and just before I settle down to my Christmas Dinner.
(this year we are having D-U-C-K) I’ll go along with what everyone else does
at Christmas. A Christmas Quiz. No. Don’t go, it’s only three chess puzzles.
Usual fare. I’ll show a puzzle and then an RHP game very similar to the puzzle.
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on Mar 17 2015 20:03 | 3257 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 17 2015 20:07
