Saturday, April 19, 2008

You'll answer to me



Quiz question: Which British chessplayer once had Cleo Laine as a babysitter?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

I've read this somewhere, but forgotten who it was. Assuming it's one of those books I've got with some (auto)biographical content it would have to be one of Keene, Nunn, Speelman or Adams, but based on the possible influence of an early exposure to jazz on playing style it should be Hodgson, Conquest or Speelman?

Jonathan B said...

Wild stab in the dark ...

Gary Lane?

ejh said...

I've read this somewhere, but forgotten who it was. Assuming it's one of those books I've got with some (auto)biographical content it would have to be one of Keene, Nunn, Speelman or Adams, but based on the possible influence of an early exposure to jazz on playing style it should be Hodgson, Conquest or Speelman?

Hah, very good, albeit far too many guesses for me to give a yea or nay. It wasn't Gary Lane though.

Anonymous said...

I know this. It's Bas, a man who later switched to folk (rock) as illustrated by the fact he once named a book 'The New St George' after a Richard Thompson song. Anyone who doesn't know RT, you've got a forty year career to catch up on!

ejh said...

It is, indeed, "Mad" Mike Basman. Never quite as mainstream as Ms Laine, Mad Mike.