Friday Coffee, FIDE & Potpourri
Dark Coffee
How are you today? In preparing material for today’s ‘Coffee’ blog I reviewed some of the latest (boring) news, (boring) scientific studies and … Read the rest
Category: humour
Chess, Creativity & Fun!
Recent chess-themed videos
Vimeo is one of my favourite platforms for all types of videos, including educational ones, and I frequently embed some of these … Read the rest
Dvorkovich set to step down?
BREAKING NEWS!
If what is happening against the legitimately elected president of Venezuela is to become the way things are done from now on, then … Read the rest
Coolest Chess Match on Earth
Historic Match
Cool! I came across this item just recently. It features two gentlemen playing a game of chess in the Antartic. The YouTube entry… Read the rest
Girls and Guns
CAPONE’S COROLLARY
“You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun.” – Al … Read the rest
Keene, FIDE, political shit & other sexy nonsense
Follow the Money
We all instinctively play the whore role when it is convenient to do so. It is our nature as social animals. Being … Read the rest
Today’s funny chess-commercial!
Chess & The New York Lottery
This is hilarious! Two men are playing chess in the park, numerous attentive spectators, and just as the old … Read the rest
Today’s Winning (Shoe) Chuckle!
Move over AlphaZero! Here comes the SHOE…
This playful video begs us on to ask the humbling question “If we humans can be beaten … Read the rest
The World Slapping Championship!
A Tiebreak Idea for Chess!?
What fun if Carlsen and Caruana had to break their 6-6 tie this way! I did not even know that … Read the rest
Today’s Insight into the meaning of LIFE
Let me tell you a secret…
”Be yourself; don’t take anyone’s shit, and above all, never let them take you alive.” – Gerard Way. Sounds … Read the rest
The internet, Sex, potpourri and other nonsense!
The Internet and Privacy
Before the arrival of the internet, it was really tough being a follower….and sometimes embarrassing, too! As in the case of … Read the rest
Just For Laughs, Potpourri and other Nonsense
THE U.N. SURVEY
Here was the question: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the … Read the rest
Potpourri, Trump, & Sex; but mostly Nonsense
Memories of the coming Gender Revolution
How are you today? This column is mostly about the irreverent. And at times the absurdity of it all. … Read the rest
Life,Trump, Sex, potpourri and other Nonsense
Life in Trump’s America. Part XXV
The amazing Kayleen Franklin. Half-Filipina, half-Caucasian model from B.C. Canada. Unfortunately, she is exactly the kind of ‘non-white’ that … Read the rest
Today’s FIDE Election Laugh
Darth Pein spotted in Batumi!
Inspired by Nigel Short’s naughty tweet earlier today: ”Very positive day meeting many federations. Darth Pein becoming more anxious by … Read the rest
