The Planet Greenpawn

The Planet Greenpawn

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The Quest to Bust MCO 9.


On the 21 February 2015 Red Hot Pawn was 22 Years old. So….
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red pawns

Three things I love more than anything else in the whole wide world.
A good bum on a woman, under promotion with a check and a Quest.

So whilst browsing through the January 1959 edition of Chess Revie...

Fischer's Will to Win + Ernie Returns


Grimshaw

The club always looked forward to Grimshaw’s spectacular Knight moves.
red pawns

Usually I end every piece with a game from the RHP vaults of horror.
This week I’ll start with a question about one. ‘What Happened Next?’

Haribo1 - Josh S RHP 2013 (White to play....

Eagle Cheats + Caro Kann Traps


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. ...

Windmills. Rook v Knight. The Adams Spot!



I was playing over the Giri - Ding Liren game from the ongoing 2015 Tata Steel…..

(insert a picture of Anish Giri……………….Russ)
Anish Giri

This is Anish Giri on the cover of the April 2009 CHESS when at
14 years and 7 months he became the World’s Youngest Grandmaster...

Tal and the Caro Kann + Double Deception

First this.
Beginner Book

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...

Snoopy v Carlsen + Najdorf Tricks

pawns2015

Happy Birthday planet Earth you are 2015 today.

(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. ...

The Christmas 2015 Bloggy Thing



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. ...

Let’s All Get Rich Quick Scheme No.46



Those of you that followed the court case (it was in all the papers) will
know that Let’s All Get Rich Quick Scheme No.45 was a complete failure.

My idea of making a chess set with the heads of rare and protected birds
saw me paraded through a dozen courts in a dozens different countries. ...

The Carlsen Harpoon


I painted this yesterday. Took me half an hour.
Carlsen

Duck

OK I admit it. I never painted it but I think I could have. It looks easy enough.

Anyway, I used that picture of Magnus Carlsen to get this thread about the
Carlsen - Anand World Champions match which has just finished, started...

RHP Players - Please Stay Forever Young


Christmas is just around the bend so I bought my grand daughter one of these.

Dot Book

Of course I tried one out and this (page 64):
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turned into this.
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