Check Mate, Mr. Keats!
A thing of beauty…

“A thing of beauty is a joy forever.” — John Keats (1795 – 1821) A romantic poet who dies young…who could not but admire such a legacy? I don’t know if Keats was a chess player, but when I first joined the Alekhine Chess Club in Montreal back when I was a school boy, everyone knew of John Keats! The scoresheets even had the above quotation printed on it…


