Years ago I read that a young Fischer was amused by chess cartoon in MAD magazine.
I read it being described as two old men playing chess and of them had fallen asleep.
I came across a 1957 MAD, it has a chess cartoon in it but not with the players sleeping.
This one is Capablanca playing 100 players in a blindfold simul and losing every game.
Then onto Sci-Fi books with a chess theme and then chess book titles I’d like to see.
The instructive bit is Black traps that work for White with a position that has appeared
on RHP 15 times and nobody has sprung the trap. I use an excellent OTB game to show it.
Then some recent examples of RHP players not pausing before promoting a pawn.
(yes the usual batch of needless stalemates but a couple actually ended in a checkmate.)
Finally another OTB game to cheer up all those who never paused before promoting.
Years ago I read that a young Fischer was amused by chess cartoon in MAD magazine.
I read it being described as two old men playing chess and of them had fallen asleep.
I came across a 1957 MAD, it has a chess cartoon in it but not with the players sleeping.
This one is Capablanca playing 100 players in a blindfold simul and losing every game.
Then ...[text shortened]... cheer up all those who never paused before promoting.
Years ago I read that a young Fischer was amused by chess cartoon in MAD magazine. I read it being described as two old men playing chess and of them had fallen asleep. I came across a 1957 MAD, it has a chess cartoon in it but not with the players sleeping.
MAD came out with another cartoon in the 60's. 2 old guys playing chess with cobwebs draped around their heads. They said the guy on the left had been dead for 2 weeks. This is why checkers sells just as well as chess in America. It's country of big waste lines and small attention spans. 😕
Capablanca Loses 100 Games of Chess
21 Aug '22 14:54
