I've just been told that, after a hiatus of many, many months, the Batemans Bay Chess Club is resuming its weekly tournament this coming Wednesday at the Catalina Club. What wonderful news!
And the timing is wonderful as well: the chess tournament runs from 5 to 7 p.m., after which we can just move across to the restaurant for a barramundi dinner washed down with a glass (or two) of the old chardy.
Life doesn't get much better than that!
P.S. Mention chess and some people are reminded of the scene in the movie "The Seventh Seal" where a knight meets Death and challenges him to a game of chess in order to save his life. Mention chess to me and I am reminded of my time in Saudi Arabia when I spent all those lonely nights in a five-star hotel with many other lonely expats, some who stood outside my hotel room door at one o'clock in the morning with a chess-board under their arm and, in order to save their sanity, had asked me in a timid voice, "Feel like a game of chess?" - click here.
