London Chess Classic 2012 - Day 0 - GOOOOD MORNING LONDON...

"Excuse me, sir. Seeing as how the V.P. is such a V.I.P., shouldn't we keep the P.C. on the Q.T.? 'Cause if it leaks to the V.C. he could end up M.I.A., and then we'd all be put out in K.P." 


Quote of the day has to be Nigel Short who in the middle of a bounce game with Aronian, came out with the classic, "Oh no, what a boring move", four moves prior to being checkmated!

Honestly, exciting chess wins...

Yep it is that crazy time where I spend a week in London doing about a million hours work and chewing the ends of my fingers in nerves!

Another Arbiter gets into the "McFarlane" Admonishing routine...

 The start up was delayed this year by a PC, not a computer but a Press Conference.  It was 30 mins late due to Judit and Magnus having a trip up the London Eye for a press shoot.  Traffic was a problem...

 The rest of the world took on the combined grandmasters in a "Come and have a go if you think you are hard enough" match.  Predictably the rest of the world lost horribly giving up a piece within 20 moves and the king not long after.

It was a long day yesterday and I was grateful to pour myself into my bed.  Tomorrow has its challenges, the first being and "Andy v Piano" challenge as I have to move a piano off stage so we can get play started

Is this for when the players get bored???