Your evening longread: Why it s great to be a beginner - at any age
It’s a coronavirus-free zone as we bring you an interesting longread each evening to take your mind off the news. By Aoife Barry Monday 11 Jan 2021, 8:30 PM Jan 11th 2021, 8:30 PM 12,594 Views 0 Comments
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EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
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One day a number of years ago, I was deep into a game of draughts on holiday with my daughter, then almost four, in the small library of a beachfront town. Her eye drifted to a nearby table, where a black-and-white board bristled with far more interesting figures (many a future chess master has been innocently drawn in by âhorsesâ and âcastlesâ).
âWhatâs that?â she asked. âChess,â I replied. âCan we play?â she pleaded. I nodded absently.
There was just one problem: I didnât know how. I dimly remembered having learned the basic moves as a kid, but chess had never stuck. This fact vaguely haunted me through my life. I would see an idle board in a hotel lobby or a puzzle in a weekend newspaper supplement, and feel a pang.