Sally Simpson Member since Jan-28-14 "There are two kinds of kibitzers, those that know nothing and those that don't know they know nothing." I'm Geoff Chandler 'Sally Simpson' is the title of my favourite Who song. The Green Pawn? It has nothing to do with chess.com I'm greenpawn over at Red Hot Pawn and when I wrote for the Hibs fanzine in the 70's i went under the name of Green Pawn. Me and Karpov went to different schools together. If you fancy something different then try this; https://www.redhotpawn.com/chess-bl...

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Aug-04-25 Valentine Green    Sally Simpson: "I don't know when the term <Old Indian Defence> came into vogue" Just after the time people stopped calling it the 'New Indian Defence.'      Aug-04-25 F Waldhausen Gordon vs B Fellowes, 2025    Sally Simpson: It should be OK but I'll ask his parents first. If so I'll get a unique chessgames only pic (him holding up a sign 'copyright chessgames.com') Looking back on our time together I learnt more from him than he from me.      Aug-04-25 A Greet vs Caruana, 2016   Sally Simpson: Andrew in the August 2015 CHESS gives what happened after this game as one his memorial moments in chess. (the other was spending a few days with Korchnoi) After the game he tentatively asked Fabiano if he would like to go over the game. He agreed and Andrew relates it was a ...      Aug-03-25 British Championship (2025)    Sally Simpson: <HeMateMe> You are thinking of the book; 'The Peculiar Garden of Harriet Hunt' https://www.amazon.co.uk/Peculiar-G... I think I've read it: Is that the one where a female chess player pretends she is a beginner to lure online male chess coaches to her county mansion ...      Aug-03-25 C Schmid vs W Wayte, 1880    Sally Simpson: Another batch of game between these two has surface and they are labelled 'casual series' which appears to them trying out and experimenting with variations in the Scotch. So that explains the rather relaxed play.      Aug-03-25 Capablanca Memorial (Elite) (2013)   Sally Simpson: 86 years after playing their world championship match Capablanca and Alekhine both had their own memorial tournaments starting and finishing on the same days. 21st April - 1st May 2013. Alekhine Memorial (2013) ...er...that's it...(first!)      Aug-03-25 Biographer Bistro    Sally Simpson: <Stone Free and JNP> Yes it does look like they were testing variations. That note (d) in the CPC game 378 follows the game I submitted till Black's move 10 (10....Re8 in game 378) saying 10...dxe4 as in C Schmid vs W Wayte, 1880 was tried late and thought to be better. ...      Aug-02-25 Petrosian vs Korchnoi, 1962    Sally Simpson: <Petrosianic> Although I've used the word 'theory' I'm positive this game is legit and it appears we agree. There does appear to have be some kind of agreement between Petrosian, Geller and Keres to save energy against each other and there is evidence from previous ...      Aug-01-25 D Zazove vs F Rhine, 2025    Sally Simpson: <Hi FSR> One can see the point of 5...Nd7 getting a tempo on the Queen with Nf6 but 5...Nc6 also has it's points and it served you well. Words like 'tempting fate and 'breaking a winning streak' come to mind. I faithfully stood by my known to be 2nd or 3rd choice moves ...      Aug-01-25 J Arnason vs Kasparov, 1977   Sally Simpson: <Hi Petrosianic> Leonard Barden beat CL&R by three years predicting on the 24th February 1975 in The Guardian a bright future for a certain 11 year old Gary Wainstein and that he was a future world champion.

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