by greenpawn34 on May 20 2014 11:41 | 3566 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jul 07 2014 10:59
This is him
Giuoco Alfonso Piano, the man who invented the opening we know as the Giuoco Piano.
He was born in the small town of Corroma in Italy and played chess daily with
his friend Bernardo Da Vinci, the brother of Leonardo who dabbled in painting.
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by greenpawn34 on Apr 10 2014 00:14 | 3740 views | 1 edit | Last edit on Apr 10 2014 00:29
“We knocked the bugger off!”
Those were the words of Edmund Hillary after he conquered Mount Everest in 1953.
He got a Knighted and his mate Tenzin Norgay got not Knighted.
(Awful grammar I know but it's done on purpose to show the unfairness of it.)
Why did they do it? ‘Because it (the bugger) was there’. is the common reply.
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by greenpawn34 on Jan 23 2014 00:19 | 5863 views | 4 edits | Last edit on Feb 04 2014 04:56
Been ages since I did a book review.
First of all I need a chess book to review.
My local 2nd hand shops have chess books that I already have so I branched out
and went to non-local 2nd hand shops….again nothing I don’t already have.
I was going to end this book review section with no book to review when I suddenly saw
a book I do not have in the 25p basket....
greenpawn34
on May 20 2014 11:41 | 3566 views | 2 edits | Last edit on Jul 07 2014 10:59
