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Ever since Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, during the Championship Final of the World Cup, mentioned that Nigel Short had begun a column in New in Chess and the first was about Canada, I have been waiting on tenterhooks to read what he had to say.
For Nigel seems to stir up strong passions in his readers. He can be blunt, inappropriate and also vastly amusing.
He begins his article (in NIC 2013 #6) by talking about jet lag and chess performance. Then:
Edmonton, in the oil-rich province of Alberta, lies a whopping nine time zones away from my home in Athens. Last year, when I won the 10-player round-robin there, I took the wise precaution of visiting both Ottawa and Toronto beforehand, giving simuls and lectures.
He gives an account of the Edmonton tourney, says he flew home for about a week after, and then returned to Ottawa. He has kind words for his host, Gordon Ritchie, but is critical of the lack of Internet transmission of the games on the top boards and a last-minute change in pairings.
He mentions draws with Eric Hansen and Ivan Sokolov and winning games against Leonid Gerzhoy and Elshan Moradiabadi and the final game against Lazaro Brouzon, the top seed.
The last paragraph deals with the awards ceremony and I will not spoil Nigel’s story by quoting it here. I mean, what could go wrong at an awards ceremony? Am I right? The two-page article is worth a read to see how others see us.
The main focus of the issue is on Che Guevara – A Revolutionary’s Passion for Chess. There are also Adams, Giri and Vachier-Lagrave and columnists, Jan Timman on the Politiken Cup and Hans Ree on The King’s Gambit.
For Nigel seems to stir up strong passions in his readers. He can be blunt, inappropriate and also vastly amusing.
He begins his article (in NIC 2013 #6) by talking about jet lag and chess performance. Then:
Edmonton, in the oil-rich province of Alberta, lies a whopping nine time zones away from my home in Athens. Last year, when I won the 10-player round-robin there, I took the wise precaution of visiting both Ottawa and Toronto beforehand, giving simuls and lectures.
He gives an account of the Edmonton tourney, says he flew home for about a week after, and then returned to Ottawa. He has kind words for his host, Gordon Ritchie, but is critical of the lack of Internet transmission of the games on the top boards and a last-minute change in pairings.
He mentions draws with Eric Hansen and Ivan Sokolov and winning games against Leonid Gerzhoy and Elshan Moradiabadi and the final game against Lazaro Brouzon, the top seed.
The last paragraph deals with the awards ceremony and I will not spoil Nigel’s story by quoting it here. I mean, what could go wrong at an awards ceremony? Am I right? The two-page article is worth a read to see how others see us.
The main focus of the issue is on Che Guevara – A Revolutionary’s Passion for Chess. There are also Adams, Giri and Vachier-Lagrave and columnists, Jan Timman on the Politiken Cup and Hans Ree on The King’s Gambit.
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