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Concerning H G Wells
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According to biographer Vincent Brome, Wells was "bad, very bad" at chess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amateur_chess_players
Jul 13, 2021
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ClegChess wrote:
According to biographer Vincent Brome, Wells was "bad, very bad" at chess.
Possibly, but we'd then have to assume that Mr. Brome was a good judge of chess play.
Jul 13, 2021
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This could be said of many time-consuming hobbies taken to their natural conclusion, but chess does seem to have a particular appeal among societies intelligentsia-especially during H G Wells time
chyss wrote:
He's right of course. To be a chess player is a terrible curse. It is to live one's life out of a suitcase, spending weekends in far flung corners of the world but seeing only the inside of the playing hall. It is to see a hundred failures in every success and a thousand disasters in each loss. Caissa is a cruel mistress but we can but dance to her hypnotic harmonies.
Gosh, I feel that.
All is not so simple with Chess.
One shouldn't be Chess addicted.
Stop playing Chess if you still can. )
j
A great read! I've come across a quote from Wells' essay before but never read it in full.