This image, friends, warms my beady black heart.
These are the vestments which some of YOU readers commissioned for Ss. Trinità in Rome.
All set up and ready for the priests in the mornings of the Octave of Pentecost.
Thank you again to
TP, MR, SS, KA, ML, AT
I hope for action shots, with the altars full.
In chessy news, Magnus Carlsen emerged victorious at Casablanca Chess 2024 with Hikaru Nakamura, followed by former champ Viswanathan Anand and Bassem Amin. In other news, water is still wet. The format was interesting. It wasn’t interesting enough to hold my attention for more than a couple games in each day, not because the idea of the tournament wasn’t interesting, but mainly because one of the commentators was wasn’t interesting. Danya Naroditsky was the strong member of the team, with some humor and anecdotes and something in the voice which implied that he cared. The highly talented Jan Gustafsson was as laconic and mellow as Tania Sachdev is verbose and irritating. Mind you, this has nothing to do with their chess knowledge! It’s their delivery. If those who produce these streams to entertain fans… and that’s their goal… they should take that into account. This new event needed an A team.
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Meanwhile, white to move and mate in 2.
NB: I’ll hold comments with solutions ’till the next day so there won’t be “spoilers” for others.
With Memorial day a week away, to quote James Taylor, “summer’s here… I’ve got my cold beer…”. I recommend the beer from the monks of Norcia only a little chilled, not super cold like American beer (too cold… and you can’t taste it… which might be the point). Norcia beer, three kinds, is spectacular.
Meanwhile, I am preparing for an informal tournament between clubs from neighboring towns. What to do?