The World of Abalone

February 22, 2015

“The chess [Abalone] board is the world, the pieces [marbles] are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us. We know that his play is always fair, just, and patient. But also we know, to our cost, that he never overlooks a mistake, or makes the smallest allowance for ignorance.”

Thomas Huxley, English biologist and zoologist (1825-1895)

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2015 Abalone World Championship

The London 2015 Abalone World Championship will take place on:

Tuesday, August 25
from 10.15 a.m. to 1.45 p.m. (local time)

The venue is still:

JW3
341-351 Finchley Road
London NW3 6ET
United Kingdom

Registration will open in April 2015. Single session events are still £10.

More information at:

http://www.msoworld.com/schedule/

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Reasoning and memory

February 15, 2015

“Although memory and reason are wholly different faculties, the one does not really develop apart from the other.”

(Emile or On Education, 1762, translated by Barbara Foxley, 1911)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Genevan Enlightenment’s philosopher and chess player (1712-1778)

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To stand still is to go backwards

February 8, 2015

“Qui non progreditur, regreditur.” *
* “To stand still is to go backwards.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BCE – 43 BCE)

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The Abalone composer

February 1, 2015

“Chess [Abalone] problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterize all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity and splendid insincerity.”
(Poems and Problems, 1969)

Vladimir Nabokov, Russian-American novelist (1899-1977)

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