It has been said that coincidences mean that you’re on the right path. NLC Chess must surely be, if one considers the strange case of Mister J.J. Moore’s chess game of 1977.
Looking through some secondhand chess books in a backstreet bookshop in Brighton five years ago, your correspondent (an NLC member of a year or two’s standing by then) decided to buy a copy of Nimzowitch’s ‘Chess Praxis’, the Master’s follow up to his legendary ‘My System’.
Having arrived home, and flicking through the book, a score sheet fell to the floor.
That’s right, reader. A chess game, played in at the NLC, on 01 May 1977.
Who Mister J.J. Moore was, who he played for and what competition he was playing are now surely lost to the mists of chess games gone. But we can still savour his finely played game.