tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post8841049001447426961..comments2023-12-28T02:11:22.501+00:00Comments on The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog: Today in Chessminster*Tom Chivershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09850710685193416732noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-723998959621731732011-11-03T19:08:51.591+00:002011-11-03T19:08:51.591+00:00Any research that I don't have to do is good r...Any research that I don't have to do is good research. Thanks for yours as well David.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-38657275953850522582011-11-03T15:50:13.579+00:002011-11-03T15:50:13.579+00:00Apologies for raining on Morgan's parade. But ...Apologies for raining on Morgan's parade. But you can do your own research readily enough. There's masses of parliamentary archive material back to 1801. Here is one example - from a debate on national education, 1856. That's right: 150 years before Gazxa set foot in the HoC<br /><br /><i>"(M)ore might be attempted in the teaching of games and amusements to the children of our schools. It is humiliating to hear that the English soldier, compared with foreigners, is deficient in means of passing his leisure. Taken as a whole, the life of an English labourer is the dullest and most unpleasing that can be imagined. Away from his work he has no employment, either for the head or hand, and this want of the power of amusement often drives him from had to worse. The man that skulks behind a thicket for game, or rouses the parish in a drunken pothouse brawl, would possibly have found a different occupation had there been a room provided for him, well lighted, and furnished, not merely with books, but with backgammon or chess, the mysteries of which would not take long to learn.</i><br /><br />For further bloggable gems, go to a reliable Hansard online site, and search the archiveDavid Rnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-13515874206974011462011-11-02T17:48:41.439+00:002011-11-02T17:48:41.439+00:00Speaking to the man himself, I discover it's a...Speaking to the man himself, I discover it's absolutely pukka and really happened like that.<br /><br />Tip-top research, Morgan.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37675897.post-45782871345206048382011-11-02T17:40:23.971+00:002011-11-02T17:40:23.971+00:00Genius. I take it that this *is* genuine and not ...Genius. I take it that this *is* genuine and not a spoof? As with much in life, that you can't be sure either way is a good sign.<br /><br />Marvellous post whether true or the product of your fertile imagination Morgan.Jonathan Bhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00293162543015231439noreply@blogger.com