Sunflower Viewing at Kimita

July 22, 2015 David Hurley 0

On Sunday 19th July, we drove out into the countryside, to a village called Kimita, located near (and incorporated into) the town of Miyoshi, in Hiroshima Prefecture to view the sunflower fields. The sky was full of ominous clouds, but when we arrived there were some patches of blue and the [Read more…]

Recovering From A Pawn Fork…

July 12, 2015 David Hurley 0

In this game, played out between myself (White, 1672) and Dr. M (Black, unranked) on Wednesday evening, I achieved a quick and perhaps undeserved victory after a lazy series of fast-paced opening moves that culminated in an egregious blunder in which I plonked my Bishop on d3, bringing on an obvious [Read more…]