3 0 blitz against GM
I am small light in the world of chess. But on the rare occasion I can produce some great games. In a lichess tournament (Bundesliga tournament which is…
Latest dispatches
Recent observations from the ward, the sideline and the board-game table.
Correspondence Chess
I have – so far – written very little about my correspondence chess. I started playing correspondence chess (CC) when Somerset was looking for players for the national…
Ark Nova
When you look at my games, I have played this year one of the most games played so far for me is Ark Nova. I love Ark Nova…
County training
The weekend off was quite nice. After the busy week we’ve had (more in my next entry) it was good to spend some time with the family. Well,…
Through the Ages – A new story of Civilization (TtA)
As people know I play board games as one of my hobbies. Over the years board games have come and gone, some made o very good impression on…
Post On-call weekend
It looked like my consultant had so much more “Room in the Inn” than we could handle. A lot of sick patients in the hospital and bed shortages…
Day of decisions
As expected, yesterday was a day where some really important decision were going to be made. The first one was the patient with the failed duodenal stent, and…
Back to the “Madhouse”
After 9 days off it was back to work for me on Monday. I knew that colorectal was on-call at the weekend and therefore our UGI list wouldn’t…
First tournament since 2018
Last month I had the usual email from a guy call Tim Paulden who organises chess events in Devon. I am still in his address book as I…
Annual Leave – Part 2
Our neighbour came around to ours at 6pm. I know her since we started “Nursing School” together in 2009. It does help at work having friends in senior…