Monthly Archives: January 2011
On the brink
Another Hastings Congress is drawing to a close! Once again, we have had a great week and a half of chess here on the Sussex coast, and as we head into today’s final round, it …
Easy for Edouard
Top seed Romain Edouard of France took the sole lead in Round 7 of the 2010/11 Hastings Masters, after an unexpectedly easy win against young Indian talent, Rao Prasanna. Edouard commented afterwards that his opponent …
Brits Blown Away
The sixth round of the 2010/11 Hastings Masters was not a great day for the Brits. The top four boards saw four British players facing four foreign players, but despite having White in three of …
Media frenzy, or who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricks?
2010 was been an interesting year for your correspondent, not least on the technology front. Never having been of a technical bent of mind, I should by rights be suffering more than most in this …
Film 2011
All the best films have a sequel (or two, or three, not to mention a “prequel” nowadays, as well…), so a brief revisiting of our Chessplayers’ Film Club theme seems only appropriate. Ian Hustwayte points …
