Chess and Forum link? What What?

I just finished reading "Bobby Fischer goes to war." A very entertaining account of the 1972 world chess championship between Bobby "complete fucking lunatic" Fischer and Boris "Russian representing the Soviets" Spassky.

It threw up gems like there are 10¹²⁰ possible combinations in a game of chess, give or take a few. (Bearing in mind there have only been 10²⁶ nanoseconds since the Big Bang. There are thought to be only 10⁷⁵ atoms in the entire universe)

Anyways. You will see two new additions to the blog. A chess board and a forum.

If you post a move in the forum, I’ll move the board, and post my move. I’m white.

Niall was also saying the comments were being used to discuss the books we were reading, now there is a handy forum link.

We’ll see. Maybe this’ll work. Maybe it won’t.