chess in Hiroshima

After reading about the death of Julian the Apostate in Dr M’s “History in English” lesson on Wednesday 4th July, we settled down to a couple of games of chess. In this game, Dr M attacks as if he is playing shogi (Japanese chess) and neglected to defend his King’s [Read more…]

Having comfortably won the first of our two games of chess on Wednesday, I went into the second game with far too much complacency, which led to a lackadaisical opening and middle game… Thankfully, the battery in the digital movie camera ran out of juice, but enough of the game [Read more…]

Last Wednesday evening, after our History in English class, Dr. M and I played two games of chess. Dr M kindly allowed me to film the games as a way to keep records without have to go through the rigmarole of taking notes. In the first game, Dr M made [Read more…]