> > > > This is very Cornish of him as the County's strongest player ever, back in the day with Dylan on the radio at the Quasar Café :)
> > > Alas my one trip to Cornwall was entirely too short.
> > One can only eat one pasty a day,
> Hah! I was walking some ungodly number of miles per day (new shoes had to be resoled after eight weeks) and could have dealt with
> many pasties per day. Though my favourite meal in Cornwall was actually a burger with Stilton.

Apologies for absence; massive storm here, and outages and keeping hungry people alive, and I note your 'favourite' now seems strangely spelt to me. But yes — I have read that if you do the entire path from Somerset over top of Devon unto and around Cornwall and back to Dorset, the ups and downs equal climbing Everest, twice.

> though pint and a pasty still available everywhere. I understand that the old league we grew up with, some 32 teams from a, then, pop. of 250,000, is in substantial decline. I calculated I played about 50 to 60 rated games per year, including cups, not so much tournaments, but county matches and lots of league play.
> I'm quite lazy and have probably not played 250 tournament games in my life, plus a couple of dozen postal games. And in some of those 250 games
> I was simply not there, waking up at move 20 or so (if I lasted that long) to note that my position was hopelessly lost. Which is one reason I have
> so much experience winning lost positions. And losing them, of course.
>
> When my episodes of not being there became too frequent, I would quit tournament chess, coming back in about six years for another round.

I have just as good an excuse, moving from the hot-bed of Cornish chess to the highlands of Scotland where the nearest strong player was ? Probably Aberdeen University 130 highland miles away, and s/he would probably be an engineer, and who wants to play one of those?

meantime I found a good anecdote [what is the name of this thread?] about Menahem Begin on Sept 20, 1940 — the future prime minister of Israel ... was playing chess with his wife in their home in Lithuania when Russian police broke in and arrested him [the Zionist]. As he was dragged away, he yelled out that he conceded the game.

I shd make a new Fischer thread since I seem to have contacted him last of all writers, and make some sort of report upon a then potential new match, plus of a statue in Brooklyn, and the role of Frank Brady in that.

Cordially, Phil Innes

>
> William Hyde

On Wednesday, March 22, 2023 at 10:38:38 PM UTC+2, Phil Innes wrote:

> Apologies for absence;

Bs"d

That's OK, just don't let it happen again.

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