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I could have said,
“green suits you Sir”
I awoke at 845 feeling marvellously spruce and levelheaded with not a whiff of alcohol breath on me, after crawling in at about 2 am having watched the brilliantly revelatory Poisoned Pawn – all about Bobby Fischer’s high watermark in history.
Fischer developed a chess variant called 960 which was less about opening moves and more about a player’s deeper understanding of chess.
I always liked his bishop, rook, King, pawns endgame to defeat a stronger looking Knight, rook, King, pawns.
This variant game and Chess’s supremacy as a test of innovation, memory and mental skill, made me start thinking and comparing it to the 19 year old spotty youth super player called Covid. He also moves with lightening speed, like Fischer, across 64 square countries, and has developed
several variant forms, but unlike Fischer, not for a greater understanding of the game, but just simply to win. Changing the rules as he plays.Unfortunately his speedy opening moves, have been met with a slow, dullard, uninspiring and far too exposed, gambling gambit response.
Is it time for a handshake ? I really must wonder, or is the Viper Vaccine end game the masterstroke to attack his jugular, and largely finish him off ?Playing against Fischer was reported by many like playing against a computer and he was bold, supremely confident and uncompromising.
” Robert Byrne labeled the phenomenon “Fischer-fear”. Grandmasters would wilt, their suits would crumple, sweat would glisten on their brows, panic would overwhelm their nervous systems. Errors would creep in. Calculations would go awry. There was talk among grandmasters that Fischer hypnotized his opponents, that he undermined their intellectual powers with a dark, mystic, insidious force.”
Sounds, rather worryingly, a bit like…The spotty one !
Just started snowing heavily – in central London. I liken it to the blizzard in the domed glass you shake into action.
” The kid loves the cold “
I like to think green does suit me, actually, and my grandmother did always insist we could trace our family back to Robin Hood.
I have had a bit of an interest in Chess in my time – https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/garry-kasparov-king-without-crown-9206901.html%3famp
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"Excellent article !
It seems you need to have to have lost your father at an early age and be near to being sectioned to be a world champion at the wooden game. (Fischer/Kasparov)
With my wooly background I have always loved the colour green. The valleys the hills the meadows the copses. In the real world I have always declared it to be my favourite colour. As I have gotten a bit older I seem to be changing into a butterfly and well appreciate the deeps and the vivids and the splashes of bolder hues.
I do love a nice drop of red particularly…🧐
I am glad you enjoyed it, gamble.
I wrote it back in 2001 – the year I joined Flutter.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"That particular year 2001 is etched into my memory for many reasons good and bad.
What I liked about fora back then was the fact that you could write on a forum without even joining it as an anonymous personage. Doug’s Place and frittertalk were small satellite fora that sprung up independently and had very few posters and really strange posters at that. In frittertalk I remember a mirror and a reflection of a face of the person standing before it that was blurred. Doug’s place was a wooden hut bit like a sauna. Not many ever in there luckily !!🧐
Excellent analysis of the covid picture on the Photo thread, Drone.
Hopefully a kind moderator can move that stuff over here.
Value Is EverythingI concur an excellent birds eye summary from Drone. As for population density it certainly is a factor but the clusters of population cannot be clearly averaged out into square kilometres – it is more complex than that. They do impact the figures and reduce somewhat the severity of the awful figures. Australia locked down their borders with the sort of measures now being preposed here. Hong Kong masked up. Both countries were very lightly affected by Covid deaths.
As for redirecting posts from the picture thread to here I wouldn’t do that. So few people look into the lounge these days,it hardly warrants the effort, and is instructive to show how easily the new variant spreads.
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Have you not mastered C&P yet? (rhetorical)
Gamble and Ginger
What I believe is noteworthy is not the difference in cases and deaths per million between most countries in the wealthy West but how similar they are: 20 European countries currently have deaths in excess of 1000 per million with a further four bubbling under in the 900s
This despite different countries adopting different strategies to combat the virus and mitigate its spread. So, much as I enjoy putting the boot into our government’s response, a kicking is also due the governments of most of our near neighbours
It strikes me that being unprepared for pandemics – which has long been recognised as a serious threat, more significant than terrorism – was a pan-European failure, not just ours
Or, measures to combat pandemics are only succesful in countries with totalitarian regimes (China, Vietnam), or those with compliant populations (South Korea, Taiwan), or those fortunate enough to be far flung (New Zealand)
It’s all a fecking mess and historians of the future will grow rich composing bookshelves of conflicting analysis: they probably already are
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Lounge/chit chat type of forums should be for a bit of banter, Imo. Maybe add another section of the forum for heavy stuff?
I rather tend to agree with you but with the caveat that events often dictate what people want to talk about.🧐
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BB news was first on the scene hours before South China News.
The first illegal rave was broken up in a sewer in the Sha Tin district of Hong Kong. Heavily masked police arrested near to one hundred men after pitched battles. All wore long beards and were brandishing swords and shouting “DEATH TO ALL ROMANS “. Exactly who the group are, is still unknown, There are strong rumours gathering pace they are strangely behaved, poorly disciplined island people, prone to fighting, insurgencies and bending and breaking rules.
…the dips
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