Listen, if I told you about a game … it’s more like a battle, an old-day warfare – it’s called chess. The Grass Arena 1991 ***** starring Peter Postlethwaite & Mark Rylance & Lynsey Baxter & Marian McLoughlin & Andrew Dicks & Billy Boyle & Nick Dawney & Simon Napper & John Garrett & Brian Hall & Gerard Horan et al, director Gillies MacKinnon, bloke in Nick
It’s a mental opiate – chess. Barbaric Genius, John Healy, Sky Arts 2012
During his chess career John won ten international chess tournaments. ibid.
To kill a king. Life of a King 2013 starring Cuba Gooding junior & Malcolm Mays & Richard T Jones & Paula Jai Parker & Carlton Byrd & LisaGay Hamilton & Dennis Haysbert et al, director Jake Goldberger, geezer to geezer prison yard
You want to find out? Sit down. ibid. teacher to students
I robbed a bank. Cops came and we all scattered. ibid. hero to chess club
135,457. Chess is the highest evolved example of a board game produced by the human race. Professor Irving Finkel, Games Britannia I: Dicing with Destiny, BBC 2020
[comment]: There are as many possible chess games as atoms in the visible universe. Untold: Chess Mates, Netflix 2026
31-year-old Norwegian Magnus Carlse n is the current World Chess Champion. ibid.
Magnus Carlsen is doing things no human being I’ve met before can do. ibid.
Magnus Carlsen was defeated in a major upset at the Sinquefield Cup. ibid.
He explicitly accused 19-year-old American Hans Niemann. ibid.
Chess.com started as an idea in 2005. ibid.
I had no chance in that game whatsoever. Which is really weird. ibid. Magnus
I’m fuming. This did not feel right at all. ibid.
After this, all hell breaks loose. ibid.
Chess world rocked by rumours of anal beads. ibid. Metro headline
I put myself in the crosshairs of some very powerful people. ibid. Hans
Every theory, every accusation, fell apart. ibid. comment