Dec-02-11
 | | GrahamClayton: Columnist for the "Independent" newspaper. |
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| Dec-02-11 | | wordfunph: he's the author of..
+ The Inner Game - Kasparov v Short 1993
http://www.amazon.com/Inner-Game-Do... + Endgame - Kasparov vs Short
http://www.amazon.com/End-Game-Kasp... |
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Dec-23-12
| | GrahamClayton: Here is a nice combination by Lawson, playing White against Fowly in the 1975 Oxford University Championship:
click for larger view1. ♘xe5 fxe5 2. ♘g6! hg6 3. ♕h3+ ♔g8 4. fxg6 1-0. Black has no defence to White's threat of 5. ♕h7#. |
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| Dec-24-12 | | thomastonk: I have read the "Inner game" and I enjoyed it very much. How does it differ from the "Endgame"? |
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| Jan-29-13 | | IndigoViolet: The titles are different. |
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Jan-29-13
 | | Phony Benoni: <thomastonk> They appear to be the same book. It was first published in Great Britain as "Inner Game", then later republished in the United States as "Endgame". Possibly some spelling is Americanized, but that's probably the limit of the changes. |
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| Dec-22-13 | | RedShield: The Nigella Defence: http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto... |
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| Dec-31-13 | | jahhaj: Games and links to audio from Dominic Lawson's radio series 'Across the Board'. Notable opponents are Hou Yifan and Lennox Lewis
http://www.chess.co.uk/acrosstheboa... |
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| Sep-08-14 | | Karpova: The flipside of Dominic Lawson: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... The flipside of Dominic Lawson II: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... The flipside of Dominic Lawson III: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... The flipside of Dominic Lawson IV: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... The flipside of Dominic Lawson V: http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... |
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| Sep-14-14 | | PhilFeeley: Another game here:
http://en.chessbase.com/post/interv... We should probably hear more about him as he's about to take over heading up the ECF. |
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Sep-14-14
 | | MissScarlett: Steve Davis, CJ de Mooi, Lawson....who next? Lennox Lewis? Does anyone have figures on how many active rated players there are now in the UK compared to previous decades? |
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Sep-14-14
| | MissScarlett: I'd forgotten about Acorn's sponsorship of the 1983 WC semi-final matches in London. Credit to Lawson because nearly all British sponsorship of chess at the time came from the banking sector. And the timing seemed auspicious, too: <The BBC Micro sold well—so much so that Acorn's profits rose from £3000 in 1979 to £8.6m in July 1983. In September 1983, CPU shares were liquidated and Acorn was floated on the Unlisted Securities Market as Acorn Computer Group plc, with Acorn Computers Ltd as the microcomputer division. With a minimum tender price of 120p, the group came into existence with a market capitalisation of about £135 million. CPU founders Hermann Hauser and Chris Curry's stakes in the new company were worth £64m and £51m, respectively.> But, wait:
<Acorn's watershed year was 1984—it had gone public just as demand for its products home computer collapsed.> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acorn_...
Least we can't blame Kasparov for this break-up. |
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| Sep-29-14 | | ljfyffe: Lawson worked for Canadian media baron Conrad Black who was convicted in US for financial fraud: Black be nimle/And a little too quick/Black got himself into a bit of sh×t! |
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| Sep-29-14 | | ljfyffe: Nimble, that is. (To steal a pun...sort of ). |
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| Dec-04-14 | | Karpova: Lawson follows live games on chessgames.com, it seems. He mentioned <AlexandraThess>' kibitzing in 'New In Chess'. See http://streathambrixtonchess.blogsp... |
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| May-28-15 | | TheFocus: <Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty> - Dominic Lawson. |
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Dec-30-16
 | | Domdaniel: <ljfyffe> - < Lawson worked for Canadian media baron Conrad Black who was convicted in US for financial fraud> So what? I wrote for newspapers owned by Rupert Murdoch for about 15 years, though I have now kicked the habit. On the great scale of Criminal Being, Rupert may be a notch or two 'worse' than Conrad Black. Think of 'Tower of Song', by the late great Leonard Cohen:
"I said to Hank Williams, 'How lonely does it get?'/ Hank Williams hasn't answered yet, but I hear him coughing all night long, a hundred floors above me in the tower of song". No doubt Black and Murdoch could be fitted into a song of their own: "Tower of Incessant Monomaniac Criminal Venality", perhaps. Or TIMES: Tower of Insufferable Monomaniac Essential Stalinism". "I called out to Rupert
How painful can this be
Rupe Murdoch never answered me
But I hear him screaming
All day long
A coupla floors below me
In a gay sarong.
I'm leaving soon
Dunno when I'll be back
They're sending us off
To work for Con Black
But Rupert Murdoch will prevail
If in his 80s
He can stay out of jail". |
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Dec-30-16
| | Domdaniel: Some years ago, *I* - yes, Lethal Me - was suspected by certain people here of being Dominic Lawson in disguise. Or, as it were, in what William Burroughs termed 'banker drag'. (Not to be mistaken for "Bra drag", beloved of Swedish chessplayers). The 'proof', such as it was, apparently consisted of (a) a certain level of literacy, (b) our having worked on certain newspapers, (c) my username, (d) a modest familiarity with Nigel Short, (e) miscellaneous opinions, (f) er, that'll do. Five or six pieces of evidence normally suffice for conviction. But seriously ... I'm not claiming to be Dominic Lawson - quite the opposite. But it appears that nobody has seen me and Dominic Lawson in the same place at the same time. With the possible exception of the late JG Ballard, and he's not saying. |
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Kibitzing
