I hope you lot appreciate the work I do for these intro screens.
We have a winner. Nepo. I watched most of the game at chessgames.com
no engine, no commentary and I can post there. I did however flick onto
Chess.24 to grab a couple of pics. The empty board is significant because
both players, especially Ding Liren spend a lot of time in their rest rooms...
by greenpawn34 on Apr 09 2023 15:53 | 993 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Apr 09 2023 16:30
At the opening ceremony a robot was to pick out a pawn to see what colour Nepo
would be for Game One. It pulled out two pawns of both colours at the same time
by greenpawn34 on Mar 26 2023 17:10 | 2732 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Mar 27 2023 17:29
A prelude to the coming World Chess Championship that is being played in
the St. Regis Astana Hotel, Astana, in Kazakhstan starting on the 9th April.
First I shall explain the flags. Nepomniachtchi (from now on Nepo the fully
accepted name used by everyone) is a Russian and due to sporting sanctions
imposed against Russia because of the current conflict in the Ukraine he can...
And speaking of covers. I always try to start off this blog with an interesting
picture or drawing or what ever. Last week I did a piece on ‘Test Tube Chess’
A few days after posting I thought up a good cover for that book which, if you
recall the cover position to solve nearly put me off chess studies forever. .
No need to applaud or PM me with praise as to how gifted I am. I already know...
Today we meet an old friend with whom I had lost contact with many years ago.
We recently met again courtesy of a friend unloading his chess books.
When ever this book came up in conversation I always mention that I nearly gave
up ever looking inside because the first things I did was to try the White to play...
by greenpawn34 on Mar 01 2023 10:07 | 5737 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Mar 01 2023 16:39
I came across one of these. It’s a Bishop Maze (9 moves)
1k6/8/6n1/8/4n3/1n6/8/4B2K w - - 0 1
Only the Bishop moves, nothing else. The Bishop must never move onto a
square where it can be taken and you have to place the Black King in check
If you want to give it a go then I’m giving the answer at the bottom of this blog...
This book, quite rightly so, has been hailed as a mini classic.
Quite a few of the older members here will have the one of the left.
For some reason, possibly a business going into administration the one
on the right (algebraic) is popping up in Oxfam charity shops all over
the country with players reporting the price varying from £2.99 - £3.99...
by greenpawn34 on Jan 31 2023 01:27 | 5289 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Feb 05 2023 10:42
The story so far. Detective Paul Green (green pawn...gedditt!!) the handsome
all round athlete with a full head of hair was trying to solve the murders of six
members of the Red Hill Chess Club. He had narrowed the suspects down to ten.
Five men, four woman and a dog called Blue. All the victims had been strangled
in their sleep. (spoiler alert! The dog did it with his leash. It was a clever dog....
greenpawn34
on Apr 10 2023 14:02 | 1094 views
