Giant chess game is played on ice

saffa73

Only Chess

11 Jan 07

saffa73

Joined: 03 Feb 04
Moves: 77968

11 Jan 07

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6252071.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/6250393.stm

Good fun, I was there at 8am this morning before work, got a few pics and video clips which I hope will be OK.

Was mostly the 2 eight year olds playing with some comments and banter from Nigel Short and Anatoly Karpov!

TommyC

London

Joined: 04 Jun 06
Moves: 929

11 Jan 07

Originally posted by saffa73

Good fun, I was there at 8am this morning before work, got a few pics and video clips which I hope will be OK.

Cool.

Will you be posting these anywhere on the web . . . . . . ?

saffa73

Joined: 03 Feb 04
Moves: 77968

11 Jan 07

I may have an old unused website somewhere, will have to have a look, unless anyone knows of a good free phot hosting site...

TommyC

London

Joined: 04 Jun 06
Moves: 929

11 Jan 07

Originally posted by saffa73
I may have an old unused website somewhere, will have to have a look, unless anyone knows of a good free phot hosting site...

Flickr gets used a lot . . . but I don't have a camera (!) so don't really know . . .

AlphaAlekhine

Joined: 28 Nov 06
Moves: 4374

11 Jan 07

There's photobucket.com. To go off on a slight tangent, the image of melting Chess pieces in January in LONDON, speaks volumes for the direction our environment is headed in. And no snow in Moscow? I'm telling you, recently, not a day goes by that I don't think about the destructive course that civilization is headed in and what I might be able to do to help.

Wulebgr

Angler

River City

Joined: 08 Dec 04
Moves: 16907

12 Jan 07

Originally posted by AlphaAlekhine
There's photobucket.com. To go off on a slight tangent, the image of melting Chess pieces in January in LONDON, speaks volumes for the direction our environment is headed in. And no snow in Moscow? I'm telling you, recently, not a day goes by that I don't think about the destructive course that civilization is headed in and what I might be able to do to help.

Lots of folks on all sides of the argument about global warming use local weather to make their point. However, such comments reveal mostly confusion about the science, and only confusion about the science renders it possible to "debate" global warming.

In any given year, it may be warm in London in January, although usually it is not. Global warming, however, is perceptible because the average London temperature is a few degrees higher than it was in Jack the Ripper's day.

saffa73

Joined: 03 Feb 04
Moves: 77968

12 Jan 07

Originally posted by AlphaAlekhine
There's photobucket.com. To go off on a slight tangent, the image of melting Chess pieces in January in LONDON, speaks volumes for the direction our environment is headed in. And no snow in Moscow? I'm telling you, recently, not a day goes by that I don't think about the destructive course that civilization is headed in and what I might be able to do to help.

No hijacking of my thread, please!!

lol

Wulebgr

Angler

River City

Joined: 08 Dec 04
Moves: 16907

12 Jan 07

Originally posted by saffa73
No hijacking of my thread, please!!

lol

Seems that melting chess pieces was the main story.

Siskin

over your head

Joined: 12 Jul 04
Moves: 23004

12 Jan 07

here's the game

[Event "Ice Chess London"]
[Site "?"]
[Date "2007.01.11"]
[Round "?"]
[White "Moscow"]
[Black "London"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[ECO "C57"]
[PlyCount "73"]
[EventDate "2006.12.17"]
[SourceDate "2006.12.17"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. Ng5 Bc5 5. Bxf7+ Ke7 6. Bd5 d6 7. O-O Bg4 8.
Qe1 Nxd5 9. exd5 Nd4 10. c3 Ne2+ 11. Kh1 h6 12. Ne4 Bb6 13. f3 Nxc1 14. fxg4
Nd3 15. Qg3 Nf4 16. d4 g5 17. Nbd2 Qg8 18. dxe5 dxe5 19. c4 Bd4 20. Qb3 Qg6 21.
Qxb7 Qb6 22. d6+ Kd7 23. Qxc7+ Qxc7 24. dxc7 Kxc7 25. Rab1 Rhf8 26. Nf3 Rad8
27. b4 Ne2 28. c5 Rf4 29. Nd6 Rxg4 30. Nxd4 exd4 31. Rf7+ Kc6 32. Rxa7 d3 33.
Ra3 Rd4 34. b5+ Kd5 35. Rd1 d2 36. Nf5 Kxc5 37. Nxd4 1/2-1/2