Once in the thousands, there are still some 500 “maddonelle” in the City.
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I played OTB in a rather informal tournament against another club. Our club won, in spite of my best efforts. Brief bragging rights, I guess. We will have to travel to them next time.
Meanwhile, white to play. Mate in 2.
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In chessy news, you may have heard of chess boxing (a round of boxing and then chess between rounds). Now there is chess bull riding. Chess bull riding is not bullet with trash talk. Well… there isn’t actually chess bull riding yet, but there ought to be. It seems that in a recent publicity spot, a couple of bull rivals were shown playing chess.
I don’t know how it would be possible to combine rodeo and chess, but I’d watch. I have loved rodeo since I was a little shaver.
These cowboys are on chess.com, it seems. So am I and so should you be! Use my link.
1. Qa2 xc4
2. Qxc4#
OR
1. Qa2 Ke6
2. Re4#