The purpose of this regular column is to share items big and small about chess found around the web on chess that catch my interest and that I believe in turn will be of interest to you and others.

Chessedelic

For instance today, Friday, June 19, 2009, for my first recommendation from Chess Here And There I would like to bring to your attention a website with the improbable name “chessedelic” of all things – inspired by the term “psychedelic”.

It is not the name that has drawn me www.chessedelic.com, but instead a chess video on the site. A lecture if you will on a game between super GM’s Magnus Carlsen and Veselin Topalov at video #37: Carlsen vs. Topalov … the only complaint I have about the lecture is sometimes Waldemar Moes (FIDE 2036 currently) sometimes speaks too quietly. That may be more a function of my hearing rather than my volume settings.  Check out the video and let me know what you think.

Chess Shots

Chess Couple

My next recommendation is due to a picture/photograph on GM Alexandra Kosteniuk’s website/blog under the heading Chess Couples showing the Bride and Groom as the King and Queen … does anyone recall an Ohio wedding with a chess motif and written up in the Ohio Chess Bulletin by yours truly?

Next are few of my favorite photos found around the web … two men playing chess next to the Ganges river in India.  Then there are two sets from Menton on the French Riviera showing the range of interest in chess with the older and younger alike here and here.

Missing Snap

Then there is the photo that got away, sorry. It appeared somewhat basic with a title “Chess Lesson” with a board and two players up front – one older and one much younger – with 1 or 2 other games going on in the background in some café. What drew me to the photo was the thought the man was instructing the boy until I started a piece count and the boy was clearly giving the man ‘a lesson’ or a whupping.  If any of you know of this photo please let me know … I would really like to share the actual photo rather than a description.

Chess and Baby Boomer Fears

Finally (for today) there is Chess and Alzheimer’s published on ChessNinja.com aka “The Daily Dirt Chess Blog” … for those of us ‘baby boomers’ this is an article of real interest and motivation to maintain our “dedicated amateur” status as noted in the article. While I clearly come down on the side of chess or chess like activities may help prevent or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s Disease, the discussion on this topic was very interesting no matter which side of the argument you take.

And now it is time to say goodbye until our next C.H.A.T. Thanks for reading and feel free to send any suggestions you have for C.H.A.T. topics in the future.

RileyD, nwJ

Riley D. Driver