This saucy chess scandal is keeping me going right now
Evening Standard|September 28, 2022
ANYONE else got that bleak autumn vibe? The days are getting darker and colder, rent and mortgages are spiralling, Britain is an international basket case, and soon no doubt we'll be battered by the season's first storm (to be named Antoni- the indignity goes on).
Robbie Smith
This saucy chess scandal is keeping me going right now

It was surely for moments like this, when we're barely halfway through the week, that sport was invented. So cometh the hour, cometh ... chess? 

Yes. Now before you say things like "I have zero interest in competitive chess", let me point out: that makes two of us. But the brouhaha taking the world of chess by storm has something for everyone. And it illustrates two important truths about the value of sport.

One, you don't have to have any interest in said sport to derive enjoyment from it because two, the juiciest bit of any sport is the drama.

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