BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

I begin this blog after getting back into league chess following many years' absence due to work. My post-job status also means I am able to play more tournament chess. My new club in London is Battersea and my first game for them is on Thursday September 14, 2017. I start with a Fide rating of 1858, an ECF grade of 169 (=1968 elo) and an ICCF correspondence rating of 2267. My current Fide is 2009, my ECF is 1955 and my ICCF is 2325.

Saturday 21 May 2022

Getting Butterflies

EVERY summer - pandemics permitting - Bregenz holds an opera festival on what is said to be the world's largest floating stage, on the Bodensee (aka Lake Constance).

The opera is changed every two years - it was Turandot when I was here in 2015 and 2016, and Carmen in 2017.

This year marks my fourth visit, and the opera will be Madame Butterfly.

Early days, presumably, in the construction of the set for Madame Butterfly

I am far from being the world's greatest opera fan, but it is nice listening to the acoustics being tested with recorded opera songs while sitting in an outdoor arena in the sunshine watching stagehands, or whoever it is who builds a set, busy at work.

BEAU CHESS - the post-work workings-out of a chess amateur

Saturday 21 May 2022

Getting Butterflies

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