by greenpawn34 on Aug 14 2022 11:26 | 416 views | 3 edits | Last edit on Aug 14 2022 11:38
I’m not too sure...in fact I have no idea at all of what the London Chess
Club badge looked like, if indeed it had one, so I have made that one up.
I’ve also guessed at the year of foundation, it could have been in the 1790’s.
Of course their badge could have looked something like this.
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by greenpawn34 on Aug 05 2022 10:27 | 2950 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Aug 06 2022 11:30
This year The Edinburgh Chess Club celebrates it’s 200th anniversary..
Rather than go into other details about events planned and ruined (Covid)
I thought here, on my blog thingy, I would just concentrate on the match
that secured the club it’s place in history. (though being the second oldest
chess club in the world that is still running, that too is quite noteworthy...
The player formerly known as the world champion has actually done what he
threatened to do and become the player formerly known as the world champion.
Kitchen table philosophy has been rife all over the net as to the why and what not.
The general consensus appears to be he needs a new target to get back his interest in
the game and the world title was just in the way of his real ambition. A rating of 2900!
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by greenpawn34 on Jun 16 2022 10:20 | 8891 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 | 8347 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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