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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Chess and the battle of the ages
I’ve decided to separate the actual chess GAME I played last week, and that I was talking about in the last post, into a separate post here. The main reason for this is that specifically chess analysis-related comments can now … Continue reading
Posted in Chess, Getting old
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Where to put the chess?
In which I ponder where to hide my latest, and oldest, obsessive enthusiasm… I have another of my chess games, played last week, I thought I might post up… but as I was thinking about this, a question arose. Or … Continue reading
Posted in Blog-ology, Chess, History, Nerdishness, Procrastination, Uncategorized
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Not much more than a decade until the bus pass*
*assuming bus passes haven’t been abolished by then (see also a defence of bus passes here). ——————————————————————- In which, in a post-academic-year reverie, I decide not to look forward, and try some looking back instead. So no surprise there, then. … Continue reading