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- Moscow chess robot accused of breaking finger of its opponent
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The headlines are striking. ‘Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven year old opponent’
The vicious act of nipper nipping took place in a demonstration event in Moscow.
The robot has been programmed in turn-taking. Its opponent moves a piece from one chess board square to another. The programme will recognise legal and illegal moves.
But this time, something more serious happened ...- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Sherlock Holmes and the case of the mystic tennis racquets
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Did you see that, Holmes? I exclaimed.
My friend had been dozing gently in the veranda to the tennis club, where he had solved the case of the vanishing tennis balls (a fox had been appropriating them).
I see a group lesson for school children continuing on the distant courts, well away from those allocated to members.
I wanted to show I too, as a highly trained physician, could observe and draw conclusions from my observations. ‘The mysterious way the racquets fell over without any intervention, as if by some inexplicable force.’
‘Come, Watson, you a man of science subscribing to mystic forces...’- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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4 min - Adventures of a community chess club. A battle for survival.
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The East Cheadle chess club is home to a top-secret government agency, but apart from that, deals with the everyday events found in chess clubs everywhere. The mythical chess club has figured in several of my detective stories of Wendy Lockinge, super sleuth, based at the equally mythical University of Urmston.
In the story of The Double Houdini, the club faced the humiliation of relegation from the local leagues, in a single season. You’ll have to read it to find out what happened.
In Seconds Out, there are more serious dangers from a sinister organisation thwarted by a chess player seeking a more lucrative life style as a chess boxing champion.
Which brings us to the unpublished dramas of the club at the moment which I want to tell you about now.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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2 min - The sad passing of Classical Chess and Five Day Cricket
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On 2 September a mock obituary appeared in The Sporting Times. It read:
In Affectionate Remembrance
of
ENGLISH CRICKET,
which died at the Oval
on
29 August 1882,
Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing
friends and acquaintances
R.I.P.
N.B.—The body will be cremated and the
ashes taken to Australia.
I mused about this today as I searched for the results of cricket’s county championship, realising it if not dead, is terminally Ill, largely surviving as a relic from a golden age. A new ‘modern’ game is emerging. This is at present labelled as the one day game, as opposed to the classical version.
A brief comparison with chess shows how the classical game is differentiated from a developing set of related games in which speed is one variable, fast chess from rapid, to blitz to bullet time limits.
My suspicion is both chess and cricket will re-stabilise with a ‘classical’ structure, perhaps with a sense of history and high status, and numerous variants of low status but attracting large numbers of enthusiasts and promotional money.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Boris Johnson's Return. Operation Wrecking Ball
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The sensational news of the Return of Boris Johnson breaks to a stunned Conservative Party overnight.
But moves are being preparing for a hasty counter-attack, at a Motorway Station on the M6.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Methinks the Author doth protest too much
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No prizes for guessing the original line triggering my headline. Points for something from Shakespeare. More later, because the point I want to make is borrowed from Shakespeare, but more directly it is the caution some correspondents show after I suggest I’d like to publish something from their message.
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4 min - Traffic chaos at Dover. A rebuttal from France
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The British headlines show irate holiday makers queuing for hours to reach Dover. The delays are due to a failure of French border staff to man the passport booths. Then a note from France reaches Tudorama. Armed only with a pocket dictionary and schoolboy French, Tudor attempts to decode the message.
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6 min - The Virtuous Bookclub. Help us Select a Name
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Catherine Hull our super scribe and editor of our newsletter from Everyday Creativity suggested that TudoRama should form its own book club. I like the idea a lot. To use the expression suggested at the foundation of our Podcast, we are becoming a community of Poddlers.
This new initiative will be supported by the long-established blog Leaders we Deserve, and its offspring Everyday Creativity.
We already know our subscribers have a love of reading. So, as a first step we need a name. My first idea for this virtual Bookclub was The Virtuous Book Club.
My second thought, that in the spirit of a creative community, we should call on our wider network to suggest a better name ...- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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2 min - Charismatic Kemi Badenoch reminds me of another politician who once won a party’s affections.
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Charismatic Kemi Badenoch reminds me of another politician who once won a party’s affections.
I was alerted to the admiration being showered on Charismatic Kemi through the Daily Mail. The paper had been discarded outside a Deli in the left-leaning borough of Hampstead on Medlock recently. Seizing it for disposal in one of the plentiful rubbish bins, I glanced at its contents.
I Read on, learning much more about the also recently discarded Kemi, now ejected from the leadership contest despite her impressive performances.- Stay up-to-date with all of Tudor's podcasts, blogs and current affairs commentary by signing up to our newsletter!
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3 min - Author Support Networks. How to beat the loneliness of publishing
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Writing is of necessity a solitary activity. But many authors appreciate a support network. The TudoR group discuss how such a network was formed and how it works.
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About TudoRama
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TudoRama explores the nature and practice of creativity in the arts, sciences, politics and above all in everyday life. Tudor Rickards is Emeritus Professor of Creativity and Organizational Change at…
the University of Manchester. Tudor studied chemistry and radiation chemistry at The University of Wales at Cardiff. Following post-doctoral research at New York Medical College, he returned to the UK to work in technical management before joining Manchester Business School. He has published numerous books and articles on creativity, sporting management and leadership, as well as fictional works involving the mythical University of Urmston. He has been influential in the development of creativity-related projects in Europe, including the European Association for Creativity and Innovation (EACI), and was co-founder (with Susan Moger) of the journal Creativity and Innovation Management. He is also author of detective stories centred around the fictional University of Urmston, and a nearby chess club which houses a top-secret government surveillance operation. His recent switch to podcasting reaches out to a wider general audience interested in current affairs, and the processes of creativity previously described in his lectures, blogposts, and textbooks.