The Evening Standard isn't a newspaper I would generally recommend for very much in particular - but, today's issue is an exception.
Because the chess column, I'm told, features a win by a certain chess club's President... So I'm off to pick up my copy now.
EDIT.Here's a scan for those who missed it:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg__hyphenhyphenSOOW5TR8Bs8HcF-4z73ahl_Guyqbl1QWAaYryzxqDQp0MATLlHDoj38XtreVGdloKM-GprP8JnPOtLEMKuT0J6VmvIw9Cmjj6XOHOTCYZ64ulRkGrzrZdmful3Bpwu-UvLQ/s400/highclasswhat.bmp)
And the solution also:
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6ws_W12hgcDTL0tvHzNtHoyR_8dbAva9OTMT8itIbVsN667a6-rm_g5ICSsvMSnCBLU1Ko1IkaHIRf1ROLgV2hp8vRIiXLKL5N18DD0pLbV2vw7kDKskN5BYHQfvQv8U4dIJCDw/s400/andwins.bmp)
(Click the images for larger versions.)
7 comments:
Well done Angus. Is that the game that was in Chess Today?
Incidentally, talking of chess in the papers, here is today's report from Diario del Alto-Aragón. Unfortunately you only get a shortened version online, so you can't read the bit about Roberto Cifuentes' tournament victory ahead of somebody called Harold Plaskett.
Oh, thanks.
Yes, it's the position which Chess Today - and this blog (it would be great to think Leonard Barden was a reader) - published a while ago...
Robin tells me he had a position - from his 'Haldane Hack' variation and taken from the club's Knightmare magazine - in the ES in 1977 ('the year of punk'). I wonder if it could be reproduced here?
Justin, I can just about make you out in the thumbnail picture; unfortunately your local paper requires an online subscription to show an enlarged version.
Angus
I have a scanner in my office & would certainly feature Robin's position!
I wonder how LB knew you were from Streatham Angus if not via the blog?
Or via Google, or by asking somebody (a much under-rated search strategy).
Oh - is there not a misprint in the solution?
Oh yes, well spotted.
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