Now, I'm sure the eagle-eyed amongst you will have noticed the usual 'Club News' has been replaced by 'Local News'. That's in order to congratulate two local players who normally sit opposite the board from us Streatham and Brixton Chess Clubbers: Yang-Fan Zhou of Coulsdon and Surrey, and Rawle Allicock of Beckenham & Charlton and Kent. Because at the latest International Tournament in Coulsdon, each achieved an IM Norm. Something tells me it won't be the last for either. That one's via here, btw.
Finally, a note of thanks to our friendly neighbours Streatham Chess Club who on Thursday last week at their venue Streatham Library held a fun and entertaining quiz, that they also invited us to. I'd guess around 40 or 50 people attended, and fun was certainly had by all. The only thing to add is a note to Stan the quiz master, just to say that Darth Vader is not a Jedi. Oh, and here's a question from the quiz for our readers to enjoy. How many tube stops on the London Underground contain the name of a chess piece? And which are they? No looking at a map first now.
Happy holidays!
15 comments:
Well, for starters there is Barking ...
Indeed . . . How many Queen's?
Knightsbridge (Piccadilly)
Kingsbury (Jubilee)
Queensbury (Jubilee)
Queensway (Central)
King's Cross St Pancras (Circle/Hammersmith/Metropolitan/Piccadilly/Victoria)
I think there's also a Queen's Park (Bakerloo)
And Victoria itself, under Queens :)
That is Barking.
Knightsbridge is also the tube station with the largest number of consecutive consonants.
Don't forget Stamford B(Rook) on the District Line!
Antony
Elephant and Castle?
Blackhorse Road?
Adam B
Having checked starwars.com, http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/darthvader/), I'm happy with the Darth Vader answer but that's not to say that I wouldn't run it by my lawyers first if I had my time again. :)
Glad you enjoyed the quiz and it was nice that so many of our friends from 'the tennis club' were able to join us. Your turn next year?
"Elephant and Castle" because of elephant, presumably....
So Tower Bridge counts (torre, Spanish for rook).
And indeed I find that Castle will do us for the Welsh "castell".
Is there a language in which one of the pieces is called a cannon? If so, then Cannon Street (Circle, District).
Barkingside.
Richard
Canon's Park.
Richard
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