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Topalov's Chess Coincidence - RHP Plans A and B


How about this as a Christmas present for your RHP friend.
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Actually it’s not a chess book. It’s a book on how you can improve
your life by following chess maxims. ‘Always Plan Ahead’. etc.....

I don’t need it, I don’t want it, the only reason it’s on here is because...
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The Levon Aronian Joke. (and it was on me!)


How about this for an idea.
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Copy this picture, print it, carefully cut it out (get an adult to do that bit for you)
paste it onto a piece of stiff card and mail it to your favourite Red Hot Pawn Player.

Next week I’ll be publishing the names and address’s of all the R.H.P. Players. ...

Chess and Tractors + A Halloween Gambit


This week we meet two Chess Players, a Highway Robber, an old pub
and an opening line in the French Defence (the Winawer Variation.).

But before I go any further I have to remind you of this book.

A few blogs ago I mentioned I was working my way through this
and enjoying it and recommending it. Then I found puzzle No.133...

Queen and Rook Endings the RHP Way


Let’s do one of these....
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Here is a blank board,
8/8/8/8/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1
See if you can set up the pieces for a game of chess.

If you have this position...

Hi, first of all I must answer some of the PM’s I’ve been getting.

Hi, Global Knight
Your cousin is absolutely correct, under certain conditions the
Tournament Arbiter may legally carry out a wedding ceremony.

Hi, Quazzi_Mott...

London 1851, No it's not the Immortal Game.


Been reading this.
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Detective Inspector Robert Colbeck is investigating the
first Great Train Robbery that took place in London 1851.

Yes 1851 the same year as the first ever Chess Tournament. ...

Luck in Chess and Strange RHP Games


We pause just a moment whilst I win a £5.00 bet...
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...see I told you I still had Short-Kasparov poster on my wall. Pay up.
red pawns

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I know in the past I have tackled this tricky subject before but after recently
overhearing a conversation in the greengrocers I thought we’d go over it again...

Days Before Databases + Rip off Chess Books


Look what I've got....
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...you are now drooling all down the front of your Star Wars tee-shirts.

The idea was brilliant. Print volumes of every game ever played right up until the
present day.........Then someone invented Databases and only Vol I was published. ...

The Gambit. + Karpov - Kasparov 1985


I went to see this at the Edinburgh Fringe.
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It's a play based on Karpov meeting Kasparov 25 years after game 24 in
their second World Championship match in 1985. (you can do the maths)

This first dilemma was how do I pay to get in?
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You see the girl selling the tickets was very pretty and I can either pa...

Red Hot Pawn Rooks


rookman

I introduced this character last blog. Let us look at him in detail.
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Now we see RookMan in action v BishopGirl.
bishopgirl

(I do hope you lot appreciate the effort that goes into creating this blog.
I'm now at the drawing and colouring in cartoons stage which is a clear...
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