Chess Grand Master Bobby Fischer & Time Life Lobby Chair

Chess grand master Bobby Fischer specifically requested the Time Life Lobby Chairdesigned by Charles and Ray Eames while he competed in the World Chess Championship in Reykjavik In 1972. He said he could concentrate well in the chair. When his opponent Boris Spaasky saw it, he refused to play until he got one too. Vitra has produced a short video on this historical event. (clik here ).

Clerkenwell Close

13 October 2010 

Chess Club Meeting

One Afternoon,

A Jukebox Tune,

Three Kings,

Some other things,

Two Boards,

Few random words,

Some games to be played,

Brazilian maid,

Not a big deal,

Free humus meal,

Clerkenwell close I suppose. 

Architectural Record June 2010

Media Lab Complex, Cambridge , Massachusetts
Architect - Maki and Associates

Fisher Street Closed

The Thomas Crown Affair 1968

Possibly one of the best boy/girl scenes in film history. 
Everything is just wonderfully crafted: editing, use of 
music, unusual camera angles, great acting with lots of sexual innuendos, simply brilliant. 

 

 

You play?

Try me.

Check.

Let's play something else.

Simpson's-in-the-Strand

Simpson's-in-the-Strand
100 Strand
London WC2R 0EW
+44 (0)20 7836 9112

Simpson's-in-the-Strand is one of London's most historic landmark restaurants and has been offering classic British dishes to its delighted patrons for over 170 years.

Originally opened in 1828 as a chess club and coffee house - The Grand Cigar Divan - Simpson's soon became known as the "home of chess", attracting such chess luminaries as Howard Staunton the first English world chess champion through its doors. It was to avoid disturbing the chess games in progress that the idea of placing large joints of meat on silver-domed trolleys and wheeling them to guests' tables first came into being, a practice Simpson's still continues today. One of the earliest Master Cooks insisted that everything in the restaurant be British and the Simpson's of today remains a proud exponent of the best of British food. Famous guests include Vincent Van Gogh, Charles Dickens, Sherlock Holmes, George Bernard Shaw, Benjamin Disraeli and William Gladstone.

Chess Club News

David's Chess Board

 
" Say hello to my little board.You are going to lose a few games on this bad boy."  - Dave

 

 

 

Chess Pub Guide #2

Artillery Arms
102 Bunhill Row
London  EC1Y 8ND

David found a new one. A small glass chess set at your disposal.

 

 

The Kite Runner 2007

 

My friend ... ....Children aren't colouring books.You don't get to fill them with your favourite colours.

 

He's not like you. He'll never be like you. But watch. He'll turn out well.

A boy who won't stand up for himself, becomes a man who won't stand up for anything.

Chess Pub Guide #1

 
Three Kings
7 Clerkenwell Close
London  EC1R 0DY


Chess Club favourite so far. Two wooden medium size chess sets available, good food, beer and a jukebox with some fine old school tunes upstairs.

Training Day

Alonzo Harris: ...The shit's chess, it ain't checkers.

 Alonzo Harris: To protect the sheep you gotta catch the wolf, and it takes a wolf to catch a wolf.
 

Whooooooo

On the road

Thomas's chessboard been through a lot. Some pictures taken in Mallorcan sunshine.