Happiness

"Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby!", said GBS, but typically there's not a lot of overlap between my day job in health and education and my pastime of chess.

Then two come along at once :)

My colleague David McGeorge called to my attention to some research about going second, which looked at penalty shoot-outs and the game of chess.

And then I recognised a face on the RSA website , former British Chess Champion Jonathan Rowson offering his tuppence-worth on social networks and the Big Society.

Chess Quotes

"Nimzovitch became then for me more or less the author of the only book which could help me get away from these Euwe books, which, I admit, are very good for the ordinary club player. But once you've reached a certain strength you get the impression that everything that Euwe writes is a lie."
— Bent LARSEN, in KEENE, Nimzowitsch: a reappraisal.

  I still like them! - DrD