"The beauty of chess is it can be whatever you want it to be. It transcends language, age, race, religion, politics, gender, and socio-economic background. Whatever your circumstances, anyone can enjoy a good fight to the death over the chessboard." (Simon Williams) In June 2020 I should have travelled on the special 10th running of …
Chess Train 2018
"And a most curious country it was. There were a number of tiny little brooks running straight across it from side to side, and the ground between was divided up into squares by a number of little green hedges, that reached from brook to brook. “I declare it’s marked out just like a large chess-board!” …
Chess Train 2017
"On the chessboard, lies and hypocrisy do not survive long. The creative combination lays bare the presumption of a lie; the merciless fact, culminating in the checkmate, contradicts the hypocrite." (Emanuel Lasker) The Chess Train (Šachový Vlak in Czech) is an annual chess tournament organised by the Prague Chess Society since 2011. It has the …
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