andy Wrote:Unless you're Australian, we Brits fervently believe in the axiom that it's the taking part that matters. Let's leave the ghastly vulgarity of words like "defeat" and (even worse) "victory" to our less sophisticated, rustic, Antipodean cousins.
Well we Aussies have never really made it big in the chess world. Unless you count the time out International Master Bruce Emmerton threw the board at Karpov during the early stages of the Prague All-Comers tourney in '81.
It was only the fifth move, too. A tricky KB-K2 version of the Sicillian though, to be fair to Bruce...