Further to the previous post, the Killer French DVDs are now ready and UK orders will be dispatched today. Click http://www.gingergm.com/shop/dvds/ to purchase copies from our shop!
The Drunken Knights chess team is an infamous bunch of like-minded players who enjoy playing the game of chess whilst sinking the odd pint.
The main Drunken Knights team play in central London, at The Plough pub, right near to the British Museum. This team is brilliantly run by the charismatic Neville Chan but just recently, transport bigwig, Gary O’Grady has started a ‘Surrey Branch’ down in Godalming his home town.
Now this has become quite handy for me as I now live a 2 minute walk away from the home venue. Coincidence you may think? Well kind of I guess…
It was a hard decision leaving my old club Sandhurst, who have made many great steps in improving the status of chess and I must thank Alec (the main man at Sandhurst) personally, for he has helped me out greatly but from a practical point of view, it made more sense to join the Drunken Knights.
Another interesting development at gingergm.com!
Justin from darkphoenix media has been developing a new website for gingergm that is nearly ready to launch.
This site will have a lot of new and exciting features. A taste of which you will have to wait for! Let’s hope it is ready to rock and roll by the end of the week!
We are happy to announce that the American copies of the ‘Killer French’ DVDs are now ready for shipping.
There was a slight delay due to problems at the replicator but the first batch of DVDs have already been sent out. We await to hear your reviews!
The minds behind gingergm.com thought that it was worth applying for the title of ‘ECF website of the year’ award. http://www.englishchess.org.uk/?p=5588 but in the end it went to another site.
We had a quick discussion about this last night and came to the conclusion that if we ever won the award then we really should hold our heads in shame. (we not jealous, really we are not…)
Why don’t we want such a worthy title you may ask? Well for a start it means that we are not being edgy enough and I also suppose that we kind of enjoy being a bit outside of the norm here at gingergm.
In honour of this attitude the ‘bottom board man’ sent me today’s lesson, which can be seen below…
I have been playing like a bit of a patzer of late, so I now welcome ‘bottom board mans’ attempt at cheering me up.
‘Bottom board man’ has found some interesting signs of when one is in danger at chess, on top of this he has also searched the internet for some chess related jokes.
Any other comments/jokes are always welcome!
To be opposite
1. To be in contention or conflict with: oppose the enemy force.
2. To be resistant to: opposes new ideas.
3. To place opposite in contrast or counterbalance.
4. To place so as to be opposite something else.
To act or be in opposition.
“What was I doing here? What was the meaning of this trip? Was I just roaming around in a drug frenzy of some kind? Or had I really come out here to Las Vegas to work on a story? Who are these people, these faces? Where do they come from? They look like caricatures of used car dealers from Dallas, and sweet Jesus, there were a hell of a lot of them at 4:30 on a Sunday morning, still humping the American dream, that vision of the big winner somehow emerging from the last minute pre-dawn chaos of a stale Vegas casino.” *
So recently I returned from a trip to the USA where, amongst other things, I:
*So says Raoul Duke in Hunter S. Thompson’s classic novel Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
So the highs and lows of the British are over for another year and it is now time to reflect on what actually happened.
Blair Connell, a fellow Drunken Knights player has kindly offered his take on the event. Hopefully Blair will become a regular contributor.
Anyway let’s welcome the ‘View from the Sofa’ man. I would just like to say that the views are Blair’s opinion and therefore they do not necessarily reflect the views of the website….
Many thanks to all those who entered the competition. The correct answer is 14252.
The following chess players can be seen in the photo above (July 2010 fide ratings have been included in brackets):
From left to right: Blair Connell (2263), GM Nick Pert (2551), WFM Alexandra Wilson (2039)
From left to right: IM Adam Hunt (2408), GM Simon Williams (2511), GM Danny Gormally (2480)
Well done to everyone who got the answer right! Sadly, there can only be one winner and that winner is Matt Webb. Congratulations! A copy of Simon’s latest dvds, ‘Killer French Part 1 & 2’, have been sent to you.
Round 11 GM Simon Williams v FM Jonathan Hawkins 0 – 1
The money game!
The last round has finally arrived and the pressure is now firmly on. In order to secure a decent money prize, Simon must win. He faces FM Jonathan Hawkins, a player who has improved enormously over the past few years. Here’s how the game panned out:
Simon decided to play the Four Pawns Attack against the King’s Indian. On move 11, he played Kh1 – a fairly new idea which was recently featured in New In Chess. However, much to Simon’s dismay, Jonathan successfully showed that the idea in question is flawed by playing 13… Bc6. Simon then had to waste precious time maneuvering his king back to g1.
After 19… d5, Black had achieved a notable advantage and moments later White was left with an inferior position. Indeed, Black found a neat way to gain a material advantage on move 25 by playing Bxe5 in the position below:
Simon’s position soon crumbled after this tactic and despite having a passed e-pawn, he was unable to make any progress due to the activity of Black’s pieces. The game ended on move 38 in Black’s favour. Sadly, this second consecutive defeat left Simon out of the prizes.
Ginger GM would like to take this opportunity to congratulate GM Mickey Adams (British Champion 2010) and IM Jovanka Houska (British Womens Champion 2010)
