Take “The Road to Damascus”…… join our match with the Syria Chess Team

We are down 11 at 12-23 in Saturday’s match with the  Syrians. Yes, this admin blundered and scheduled the match to start on the same day as our other big match with the “Africa Chess Group”. But once play gets going, match start dates fade into obscurity, yes?  And remember….Football, schmootball. Real men play chess on Saturday afternoon! 

https://www.chess.com/club/matches/latter-day-saint-chess-friends/1697309/games

(1900 years after Paul, in the closing days of WW1, English Lieutenant Lawrence is advancing on Damascus with his Arab army, hoping to beat the English army there and claim the city and all of Syria for the Arabs, thus denying it to the British Empire. En route, they come upon a retreating Turkish army that Lawrence’s Arabs could easily massacre, but his friend, Ali, reminds him they must not stop, but rather hurry on to a  more important goal …….”Damascus, Lawrence, Damascus.” For me anyway, the greatest movie ever made. I’ve seen it 100 times, and it inspired  me to travel to the Middle East.)