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.

Friday 16 August 2024

Pestitlential

THE Mozart family, including 11-year-old Wolfgang Amadeus and his 16-year-old sister Maria Anna, fled to Olomouc in 1767 to escape a smallpox epidemic in Vienna that had claimed the life of a Habsburg princess.

They stayed at the Schwarzer Adler inn

Today it is a popular restaurant, but the stay is commemorated by a plaque

The building is opposite a column erected to thank the Virgin Mary after Olomouc escaped unscathed from a plague that struck the Moravian region in 1714-16

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

Friday 16 August 2024

Pestitlential

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