Most likely, we got to know the same editor

Jonathan Rowson (@Jonathan_Rowson)

Felis attica

Cats teach dance instruction and are especially talented in the hula, the hambo and the hornpipe. Illustration: Emma Block.

• Emma Block and Anne Michael, Why cats are better than dogs – in pictures, The Guardian, November 28, 2015

М’яка обкладинка (Softcover)

ChessBase Magazine #166
June/July 2015

Mariya Muzychuk – Humpy Koneru
Women’s World Chess Championship; Krasnaya Polyana, March 26, 2015
3r2k1/1pp2pp1/1pn4p/8/qP2NPP1/2P4P/b4QB1/4R1K1 w - - 0 23

23. b5! Playing on both flanks. White first blocks the Black Queen’s access to e8. 23. ... Na7 24. g5! hxg5 25. Nxg5 f6?? This natural move is a tragic blunder. Not 25. ... Qxb5?? 26. Qxa2+-. If 25. ... Nxb5? 26. Qh4 Qc2 27. Be4+-. Black missed 25. ... Rd1! 26. Qe2 Rxe1+ 27. Qxe1 Qxb5 28. Qd2 Qc5+ 29. Kh2 Qd6 30. Qxa2 Qxf4+ 31. Kg1 Qxg5 32. Qxa7 Qc1+ 33. Kh2 Qf4+= It’s a draw by perpetual check. 26. Qd2! A bolt from blue! 26. ... Rf8. After 26. ... Rxd2?? it’s all over: 27. Re8 mate. 27. Bd5+ Bxd5 28. Qxd5+ Kh8 29. Qf7 1 : 0.

Mariya Muzychuk
Photo: Радіо “24” (Radio 24 UA)

Publishing contract

Robert James Fischer’s “My 60 Memorable Games” contract dated February 20, 1968 (PDF).

The Dark Side of the Moon

New In Chess 2015/3

Bobby Fischer: Facing His Dark Side Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam argues that only by separating the person from the chess genius can we embrace the legacy of one of the greatest and most inspiring champions our game has ever seen.

Boris Vasilievich Spassky & Robert James Fischer
Photo: New In Chess

莎士比亞書店 (Shakespeare and Company)

Shakespeare and Company Paris. The original bookstore, which doubled as a library, publisher and boarding house for aspiring writers, was opened by American Sylvia Beach and was featured in Ernest Hemingway’s memoir, “A Moveable Feast”. The store closed during World War II, and was reopened in its in 1951 by George Whitman, whose daughter, Sylvia (named after Beach), runs things today. Out front, bookstands surround an ornate drinking fountain, erected in the 19th century to service the area’s poor. Inside, there’s an extensive stock of second-hand books.

• Librerie, le 10 più belle del mondo. Due sono italiane, la Repubblica.it, 28 marzo 2014

信譽

Nordisk Skaktidende, Volume 7, Wilhelm Priors, 1879, p. 19

The whole of this game is played very brilliantly by Signor Dubois.

The Japan Daily Mail, A. H. Blackwell, 1893, p. 80

The Only One

New In Chess 2015/1
The World’s Premier Chess Magazine

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龙岩號

漂泊的荷蘭人 (L’olandese volante)

New In Chess 2014/6
The World’s Premier Chess Magazine

Meneghino

水门事件 (Watergate)

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抵制宝谷！

Garden gnomes

Chi di gallina nasce, convien che razzoli. Proverbio toscano

拍马屁 (Lacchè)

Nani e cortigiani

Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus

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Boycott the Po Valley!

Töć i barù i gh’à la sò diossiù. Non c’è putta nè ladrone, che non abbia devozione. Proverbio bergamasco

The Odd Couple

Bel in fassa, bröt in piassa. Belli in fasce, brutti in piazza. Proverbio bergamasco

Bibì e Bibò (Vanity press)

Morusa del cümü, spusa de nigü. L’amorosa di troppi non sarà mai sposa. Proverbio bergamasco

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