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.
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!
And now a post from a new contributor to this site: The Bottom Board Man!
It’s 3 o’clock in the morning and I wake to find myself covered in pork pie wrappers, in Derbyshire and travelling at 55 mph. Thankfully this isn’t the usual manner of my first waking moment but one which clearly demands further explanation.
