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Paul

Are you playing in the British Chess Champs in Liverpool. I will probably go to watch, and will look out for you if you are.

Indeed jigjag@33, arrived today and start 2.30 p.m. Monday in the Over-65s. I am ranked 33rd out of 80 so aim to finish 32nd😆
Championship proper has already had two rounds and nearly all tournaments are in the main area of St George's Hall so plenty to see. Don't get caught with your phone on!
You can of course see the moves of every game online (with a 15-minute delay). Click this link to choose your section.

https://www.britishchesschampionships.co.uk/bcc-2025-where-to-follow-the-games/

Paul

Thanks - Good luck and I will see you later

Paul

Congrats on win. When I arrived, you had a lovely position. Later I saw you were 2 pawns up with a lovely knight on d5. I missed the end and I could not find you later.

I think I played you at Hastings in the 70/80s.

Hope to be there for the start on Thurs.

Thanks jigjag. Any further posts on this I will put in the Chess Thread.

Hope to see you on Thursday and actually find out who you are. If I played you years ago I will have the game, in true chess nerd fashion, in an old score book.

The very essence of an England that I remember can be found in Edward Thomas's Adlestrop and another favourite, Frances Cornford's To a Fat Lady Seen From a Train.. Looking through YouTube, I find that this is now listed as To a Lady Seen From a Train.

Why? The poem itself says that she is fat and white.

swarbrules

At school, we were not allowed to call girls "fat". We had to say they were "pleasantly plump". We could call boys "fat".

I’m sure you know that G. K. Chesterton wrote a verse in response called "The Fat Lady Answers"…