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Clearly she was lacking a sense of danger.
kaynight wrote:
Sorry...Thought this was Robert Louis Stevenson.
I was fortunate enough to visit Savannah, Ga. a few years back and to dine at the Pirate's House where Stevenson supposedly lived for a time, when it was an inn, and where he, also supposedly, wrote part of "Treasure Island" or at the very least conceived it.
with a Frothy Fifth...
.. Speaking, of 'propeller' accidents ..
micky1943 wrote:
It's pretty hard to top a sentence that begins 'I was perusing the Sept. 14, 1935 issue of the English monthly, "Chess" . . .' Now you're just showing off!
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...
Call me Ishmael.
come to mind.
batgirl wrote:
kaynight wrote:
Sorry...Thought this was Robert Louis Stevenson.
I was fortunate enough to visit Savannah, Ga. a few years back and to dine at the Pirate's House where Stevenson supposedly lived for a time, when it was an inn, and where he, also supposedly, wrote part of "Treasure Island" or at the very least conceived it.
Where good ol' Flint died...
supposedly.
Who was the English Champion Chess player during world war 2 ? I remember watching the movie The Imitation Game about Alan Turin,and there was a Champion Chess player who was part of his team to build the Enigma machine but forgot his name,i could google it but cba. Maybe later unless anyone can fill me in.Cheers
Yeah,that was his name,i remember now.Thanks for that Micky, very informative. It was great movie also.Some people see the chess board in a way many of us dont and never will i believe,no matter how hard we try improve.Maybe is we start young we could be great GM's but them people are born with there complicated minds 
Nice rating btw
Whoa. So, here we were, having a nice and informative conversation about a horrible accident that befell a notable chess player, and then Flank_Attacks (#8) attacks with a 'I follow fashion trends as a way to keep my body as a worthy temple for Jesus' -video.
Why would you include that video here? It barely mentions the propeller accident. Or maybe i missed it somewhere in there, perhaps between the seventeenth and eighteenth mention of The Almighty?
'Propellers?' More like 'Proselytizers.'
LOL
foulplay
airplane prop accidents were more common than we thing...plane travel was new and you used to have to board almost at ground level and sometimes the props were already going....reminds me...
What an odd way of dying.
The latest strange death that I have heard of, before this one, was that of Jeff Buckley's:
Death: (from wikipedia)
On the evening of May 29, 1997, Buckley's band flew to Memphis intending to join him in his studio there to work on the newly written material. The same evening, Buckley went swimming in Wolf River Harbor,[107] a slack water channel of the Mississippi River, while wearing boots and all of his clothing and singing the chorus of the song "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin.[108] Buckley had gone swimming there several times before.[109] A roadie in Buckley's band, Keith Foti, remained onshore. After moving a radio and guitar out of reach of the wake from a passing tugboat, Foti looked up to see that Buckley had vanished. Despite a determined rescue effort that night, Buckley remained missing. On June 4, two locals spotted his body in the Wolf River near a riverboat, and he was brought to land.
Buckley's autopsy showed no signs of drugs or alcohol in his system, and the death was ruled as an accidental drowning. The following statement was released from the Buckley estate:
Jeff Buckley's death was not "mysterious," related to drugs, alcohol, or suicide. We have a police report, a medical examiner's report, and an eye witness to prove that it was an accidental drowning, and that Mr. Buckley was in a good frame of mind prior to the accident.[110]
@ Newba --
It's an interesting (and sad) story, and i love Jeff Buckley (i've been listening to him for years), and it's nice to see someone mentioning him (because he isn't as well-known of an artist as he should be), but i don't agree that his was a "strange" death.
People drown all the time, even while sober, and it's not a rare thing when their bodies aren't found for a little while.
Accidental drownings are, by far, a much more common path to death than are propeller-walking-intos, regardless of what decade we're talking about.
Anyway...ummm, sorry batgirl -- it appears we've all turned your interesting, unique thread into an unrelated jumble of tidbits about dead musicians, Harrison Ford character references, and Jesus-freaks. Sorry.
I was perusing the Sept. 14, 1935 issue of the English monthly, "Chess" (Baruch H. Wood, ed.) and saw this:
I did a double-take.
I knew that Rufus Henry Streatfeild Stevenson had been married to Vera Menchik, the first Woman World Chess Champion and that Menchik died from an airplane, but that was in 1944 and the plane was dropping bombs. I also knew that RHS Stevenson had died from heart failure the year before his wife died during an air raid. Stevenson was a chess organizer, Kent County Champion, Secretary of the British Chess Federation and an editor for the BCM.
I didn't realize, or put the pieces together, that his first wife had been Agnes Lawson, later Stevenson of course, the many-times British Ladies Champion of the 1920s (trading off with Edith Price). I also didn't know that Agnes Lawson Stevenson had died so horrifically.
Live and learn.