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Pattaya Chess Club

Posted in Chess on December 26, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Pattaya chess club is still in the Central Festival Mall in central Pattaya by the beach but it’s moved from the 4th floor to the basement. If you come from the second road entrance, its just on your right as you enter, opposite the supermarket.

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Bangkok Chess Club December 16th 2022

Posted in Chess on December 18, 2022| Leave a Comment »

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Andrea Botez boxes too

Posted in Chess on December 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

It would appear that the world’s cutest chess player -Andrea Botez- can box too!

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9th December

Posted in Chess on December 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Some videos from Bangkok Chess Club on December 9th. I apologize that the quality of the videos isn’t so great. We were asked to play on the forth floor that night and the lighting was poor.

MJMBKK

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Creative

Posted in Chess on December 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

I’ve seen worse sweatshirts.

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All good things come to an end.

Posted in Chess on December 13, 2022| Leave a Comment »

What you see in this picture is a pint of Magners Cider by a chess board but I shall not allow myself to drink alcohol at the chess club anymore, so you won’t be seeing that again. As pleasurable as it is, my chess is affected so badly by it, I just can’t let it continue on and won’t.

Mark. J. McCready 7.51 pm 13th December 2022

Chachoengsao, Thailand.

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Grand Prix Punishment

Posted in Chess on November 24, 2022| Leave a Comment »

A quick win indeed.

https://www.chess.com/game/live/62997535591

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Persistence pays off

Posted in Chess on November 23, 2022| Leave a Comment »

What a steal! How did I turn that into a won endgame, the exchange down?

https://www.chess.com/game/live/62984926471

MJM

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Forget the chess club this week

Posted in Chess on November 22, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Upon this coming Friday, I shall not be present at Bangkok Chess Club. And why’s that you ask? Put simply, I pulled an absolute stunner about a month ago, and we have our first date lined up for the same night as the chess club. And when I say stunner, I really do mean it. I’m not messing about. I think she’s absolutely fantastic and to show you why, I shall leave you with a picture of her, then it will become abundantly clear why there’s no fucking way I will be at the club this Friday.

I swear on my life, I’m not fucking about -that is who I am dating. I’m all over her like the fucking plague, as you might expect, so yeah ‘fuck the chess club.’

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A long overdue return to the fold

Posted in Chess on November 14, 2022| Leave a Comment »

Bangkok Chess Club meets every Friday evening above The Royal Oak Pub (previously The Bull), and so it was only fitting that I returned to the club which I have been frequenting since 2003. For map, see here: https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Royal+Oak/@13.7324472,100.5662752,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x30e29f02051edc49:0x14f2a19a89270b09!8m2!3d13.7324447!4d100.5684728 And given that it’s two years since I was there last, I had a very pleasant return indeed which had a sense of being somewhat overdue. It’s nice to see old friends, and see them happy to meet again, and the sense of familiarity which comes with that is always a welcome reminder of why friends remain what they are irrespective of how little you have in common beyond a shared love of chess.

There was about fifteen members present, arriving at various times, including the sister of Alexandra Kosteniuk. They look so alike I thought it was her at first as its not uncommon to have visiting Grand masters or titled players of a lower category turn up once in a while under the guise of some tourist passing by. The usual blitz tournament started around 8, which is earlier than usual, however, this proved not to be advantageous. I started drinking cider almost immediately upon arrival, partly due to being a piss head and partly because cider is my tipple anyway…oh and partly down to being an impulsive little shit so-and-so at times who is remarkably adept at not thinking things through clearly and just doing what he wants instead…oh and that I was in a pub anyway with the usual pomp and circumstance ensuing, and you could also argue that enjoying the evening on the whole mattered much more than my results given that contentment and not improvement is what I tend to gravitate towards chesswise: it matters not whether I get any better but enjoying my chess is always of greater value. So most unfortunately I got not just tipsy and not just rather merry but pissed up instead, perhaps the sense of occasion took centre stage and it seemed like the most natural thing to do. Why wouldn’t it? After all, you enter downtown and are at a bustling English pub in one of the better suburbs. Hard not to join in and have a drink…when in Rome and all that shit…

So the evening was characterized by drinking, chatting to old friends, being not quite quick enough for such rapid time controls, and drinking, and yet more drinking. Good evening all round in which the results didn’t really matter too much. I took some pictures and made some videos of the club itself, which you can find below. It was with great affection that I began to look forwards to OTB chess last month, and my first visit to the club showed exactly why that was so. Rightly so. And must remain so.

Listen up: under no circumstances whatsoever should I still be alive. The blood clot which reeked havoc in my brain was removed in a hospital along the road you see here.

In this video I don’t express very well just how much I used to boss that road on my Trek, and that I am still proud of it.

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