Sunday, June 10, 2007

Topalov's Tipple?


"Topalov to open chess cafe in Sofia," reported Chess Lodge last month. "Special guest Veselin Topalov will have the honor of ordering first drink."

I wonder what he chose? I'm guessing it wasn't a White Russian.

12 comments:

Anonymous said...

The big question is...

will there be a Sunday night quiz there?

See you at the Priory Arms tonight.

Tom Chivers said...

Pub Chess Quiz! Now there's an idea...

Ryan said...

I remember an episode of Mastermind on BBC TV a few years ago where one of the contestants had chess as his specialist subject (I think the full subject might have been 'The History of the World Chess Championship'.

I managed to get 5 of the questions right. Not bad, I suppose, and better than he did!!!

Tom Chivers said...

Sounds like good TV to me.

Anonymous said...

I also got more than him. Neither of us were sitting in the black chair though. His name is Colin Kidd and used to play for my Pinner team. He said that he had studied for the qualifiers aswell as the final matches, but the program only had questions on the final.
Andrew

Ryan said...

I'm sure that sitting in the chair must be really nerve-racking. I doubt I would remember my name, let alone answer the questions. :)

ejh said...

I was on Fifteen-to-One once. Got both my questions wrong and had to sit down.

Anonymous said...

Colin also used to play for Watford CC. I remember watching the actual Mastermind episode when he was on, just by chance (quite exciting - the last famous person from Watford to appear was Fred Housego, the cabbie who went on to win it!). I saw Colin a bit later and he admitted it had been "bloody difficult"!
Antony

Anonymous said...

2 or 3 of the questions were specifically to do with the actual chess games themselves- eg the answer to one was d5 (played by black in a Maroczy Sicilian type thing, Karpov-Kasparov) and I think demonstrating the superiority of Ns over Bs in the endgame in Botvinnik-Bronstein.
Andrew

Morgan Daniels said...
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Anonymous said...

Sorry, Bs over Ns

Andrew

ejh said...

The Bs having fewer Ps, as I recall.