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Tag Archives: chess
A chessy post not without obiter dicta – UPDATED (more pics)
UPDATE 9 Dec 21: One of you wrote: “But Father! But Father! You showed interior of the finished board and some pieces, but you didn’t show a photo of it set up! Inquiring minds…” Okay, that’s fair. Scroll to the … Read More
On chess and gratitude and a dig at the loony Left
First and foremost, thank you to the reader who sent from my wishlist (‘happy birthday to me’) the wonderful “Lewis” chessmen, found on Lewis Island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, not at Lewes in Sussex where friends of mine … Read More
What Fr. Z is up to.
After several decades, and not of the Rosary in this context, along with other things I had loved to do and that I was good at and I that I had shelved because of seminary and priesthood, I’m getting back … Read More
FOLLOW UP to “Of Leo XIII, Caruso, and Chess”
From a reader reacted to THIS post… I see from your recent post that you are a denier of the Fifth Lateran Council. You resist its Canons on the playing of chess and association with actors. After 800 years, we … Read More
Saturday Interlude: Of Leo XIII, Caruso, and Chess
UPDATED: See end. Did you know that Canon 16 of the Fourth Council of the Lateran in 1215 forbade priests from playing chess? It was considered a game of chance (clearly by non-chessplayers). That canon also forbade participation of clerics … Read More
Of chess and clerics
Out of curiosity, en passant as it were, are there any Catholic clerical chess players among the readership? I don’t mean just clerics who know how to play, but rather clerics who do play. More often than a couple times … Read More
What a difference a bishop can make.
From Chess.com today, the Daily Puzzle is from one of the 18th c. “Modenese Masters”, Domenico Ercole del Rio (+1802). There is an elegant forced mate here in 3 but it requires a bold sacrifice. White to move. What a … Read More
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Searching for Bobby Fischer’s search for the Catholic Church
My boyhood summers – when there was still such a thing as boyhood – were in large part spent in Montana and N. Wyoming, running like a brown animal, riding bare-back, swimming, biking, and going to minor league ballgames with … Read More
20 July: International CHESS Day!
Before it isn’t the 20th any longer (soon, where I am), I wish all of you a happy International CHESS Day! In honor of this esteemed occasion, I repost… Animi caussa… the names of the pieces. 1 rex, sive scaccus 1 regina (vel virgo, vel amazon, … Read More
10 October – National Chess Day
I remind the readership that the second Saturday of October is designated as National Chess Day. Don’t be board. Get out there and start mating! I’ll check on your progress. Also, en passant, many thanks to the readers who, some … Read More
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