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A well chosen example methinks

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Saturday it’s a Saturday

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What better way to begin thine weekend than delving into how nuanced endgames be. And for reasons pragmatic in their persuasion, I ain’t going beyond King Prawn curry King & Pawn or Rook endgames though -no roller skates necessary.

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  …here, the chess-related musings of an adrift academic are bound playfully and electronically, in this online journal of sorts. It has grown and grown in the decade I have kept it going and above all you must understand I write through a love of writing AND NOT to be read. Content is often personal and that alone should tell you I am writing for myself. Most importantly of all, I am proud of my own originality (as you won’t find content like this anywhere else) and believe in what I do…

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  …this site is becoming a sanitized archive of chess in Bedfordshire both past and present. I am a post-modern historian by heart, and largely by practice too. I chronicle as much as I can about the history of chess in Bedfordshire but I am only human, fallible, and not a trained historian as my qualifications are in Philosophy. Friends and former playing partners back home describe me as the go to guy for the history of chess in Bedfordshire. That may well be true and so I have created three categories: ‘Bedfordshire Chess’ and ‘History of Bedfordshire Chess’ and ‘Luton Chess Club’. This website is moving in those directions steadily and away from challenging the conservatism chess is dominated by…

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  …I am both creative and amusing, and I like subterfuge too! Remove posts that angle towards the aforementioned is something I cannot do. This site cannot only be about chess in Bedfordshire and nor should it be. It is titled McCreadyandChess for a reason and I cannot remove my own thoughts and experiences of chess from its content. Everything is open to interpretation. All you have are: ‘Some thoughts on the beautiful game’. Nothing more, nothing less…

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