The Edinburgh Chess Club was founded in 1822 and is celebrating its 200th birthday on November 4. It is the world’s second oldest chess club in continued existence after Zurich (1809). Best wishes for the Bicentenary celebrations, and for the next 100 years!
It certainly would be a very good thing to take the R22-million being set aside for that flag pole in South Africa and, instead, put it to use in maintaining a number of nationally important historic sites now being left to decay.
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