Mobile chess in Australia

I was looking up some things about chess in Australia and happened upon this delightful article on a moving chess club: http://www.rootyhillchess.org/ccc.html 

What a great idea!  Tho' with iphones et al you can also play here while on the move.

Well, thank you batgirl.  That was one of the stories I wrote when I was looking after the Rooty Hill CC web page.

The commuter trains from the Blue Mountains took so long to make the journey (and, to make it worse, were often late) that you needed to do something to while away the time.  Apart from chess we played cards, and I got a lot of reading done.

(I'd actually planned to post that on the Sydney Academy of Chess Group forum, but you've got in ahead of me.)

Well, I love the name Rooty Hill!

I'm sorry if I stole your thunder. :-(

batgirl wrote:

Well, I love the name Rooty Hill!

I'm sorry if I stole your thunder. :-(

Rooty Hill is known colloquially by one or two less salubrious names but the reason it was so called was quite simple.  I wrote a piece about that too, because we did get a few enquiries from overseas visitors. 

It's here.

And there's certainly no need to apologise for "stealing my thunder".  I was tickled to death when you posted it.

Good. Because it IS a delightful article (and I very seldom go to the trouble of linking to things I've read) and an equally delightful concept.

Thanks too for the Rooty Hill explanation.  But I'm not sure I wasn't better suited NOT knowing its origins. Somehow I had a preconception that it was all tied into Root Beer.  Maybe wild Root Beer parties.  Now I'm simply disillusioned.

If I were to slip into the traditional Ocker role for a moment, I may be tempted to say, don't worry, there are still plenty of wild ..... there, but seeing as we are more refined these days, I will say that there are plenty of good times there instead.