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Music + Chess: Test 2

So LeonardI have decided to return to this very important experiment. First of all I have to say thank you to everyone for the song suggestions. I will do my best to try them all out!

The first on the list was, ‘Leonard Cohen’s’, ‘Everybody knows’. This was a suggestion of the webmaster, Simon Ansell, so it is bound to hold a bit of weight.

I can vaguely remember listening to this song late in the evening at the Hastings chess tournament with Bob Eames and Si. It did not seem to help my result there…

Anyway a great song, which would be well suited to a tense game (last round of the British?) when the nerves are jingling and a bit of relaxation is needed…

Here’s the u-tube link to this song Leonard Cohen’s ‘Everybody Knows’.

A well deserved 10/10. Which is going to be a very hard song to beat.

I feel like I am making progress here, my i-pod play list is slowly growing. I think this is what I need to reach the 2600 mark!

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DEBASER!!!!! srry can only be shouted 8-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0P3lhrwio-M

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I wasn’t at school with Leonard Cohen I’m afraid, however I would like to suggest

The Blind Boys of Alabama “Way down in the hole” (Theme tune for The Wire: 1st series)

be added to your list.

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Leonard Cohen..i would rather slit my wrists..sorry Simon…Muse or Nine below zero if you ask me ! Kevin

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How about “Sound of Music”..from us in Austria! Or maybe Tchaikovsky’s “Swan Lake” as at Eastbourne!!!
Can’t see you taking those suggestions seriously..BUT someone you know used to play music while teaching maths to a noisy group of 30 eleven year olds..that worked, so who knows!

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How about “Intro and Rondo Capriccioso” by Saint Saens. If you have a liking for classical, this has all the right tensions.

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