18 Oct 17
A brief look at the 1933 Folkstone and 1936 Munich Olympiads.
A game was won in 1933 with a blunder. Three years later the very same
position appeared on the board with the same player. Does he blunder again?
A Red Hot Pawn player who has twice fallen for the same trap that
appears in one of the most infamous games in chess Olympiad history.
We see an example of a piece of human analysis before computers got in
on the act which end with ‘Black is Winning’ but Black is getting mated.
A glance back at the Hitler playing Lenin hoax from 2009.
Blog 371
19 Oct 17
Monty was asking about Pickles the Dog.
Sorry - thought everyone knew.
In 1966 the Football World Cup was stolen.
Pickles the dog found it in a paper bag in a bush.
He immediately became a national hero and
even stared in a film 'The Spy with the Cold Nose.'
He died the following year chocking on his own lead
whilst chasing a cat up a tree (nobody knows the cat's name.)