On Monday 23rd April we went to the Hiroshima Mint, to view the 222 cherry trees within its grounds. Here’s a photo of the Mrs and daughter under one of the illuminated “double blossom” cherry trees. The cherry trees were transplanted from Osaka and are species of yaezakura. Yaezakura have [Read more…]
I mentioned in a previous post that I “plucked Gerald Abrahams’ Teach Yourself Chess from the bookshelf and turned to Chapter VII ‘Illustrative Games’ at the back of the book” with the intention of learning one game at a time, at the rate of one game a month. I promised [Read more…]
The semi finals of the XChess Championships offer some more excellent chess entertainment and two very interesting games. Once again Justus Williams comes up with some nice stuff under extreme time pressure. In the second game Elliott Liu produced a fine series of sacrifices to deliver a great win and [Read more…]
My old quaffing partner Andreas Pedelevis recently recommended that I read Moonwalking with Einstein, the Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer. The book is both an overview of the role and importance of the art of memory in ancient Greece and Rome, the middle ages and the [Read more…]
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