Re: [Leica] noctilux chess photos

["SonC \(Sonny Carter\)" <sonc@sonc.com>]

Oliver, those were Rei's great pics


- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Nguyen, Olivier T [AMSTA-AR-CCF]" <onguyen@pica.army.mil>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: [Leica] noctilux chess photos


> Sonny,
> cool that you are playing chess with the best player.
>
> I love those pictures.  it is very sharp.  I wish i have noctilux
for indoor
> handheld no flash needed photograph.
>
> Olivier
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: SonC (Sonny Carter) [mailto:sonc@sonc.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 10:35 AM
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: Re: [Leica] noctilux chess photos
>
>
> Rei posted these great images:
> >
> > http://www.shinozuka-family.com/chess
>
> > if nothing else, the expression of the spectators is fairly
amusing.
> > i enjoyed the fact that no one seemed to notice me or the camera.
>
> Terriffic series, Rei.  I really like it that you post picture
> stories, with reaction shots, instead of just isolated examples.
>
> The crowd surrounding the players remind me of my vacation in
England
> in 1972.  My wife and I, in our twenties, stopped for the night at a
> pretty hotel on the Southcoast for the night.
>
> At dinner, it became evident that the next youngest couple in the
> hotel were celebrating their 50th anniversary, and we struck up a
chat
> with them.  This was about two weeks after the American Bobby
Fischer
> beat the Russian for the World Championship, so naturally the
> conversation turned to chess.
>
> Well, the short of the story is the guy challenged me to a game of
> chess after dinner, and I accepted, even though I'm  a player of
only
> moderate skill.   We set up the board, and suddenly were surrounded
by
> dozens of denizens of this retirement retreat.
>
> I was in a position of upholding Bobby Fischer's reputation, and it
> seemed most of the population of England over 90 years of age was
> looking on.   This did not make my mediocre chessmanship sharper.
> Alas, after the fourth move on my part, the crowd found me out, and
> drifted away.
>
> After only about ten moves, he won, and we retreated to a pub in the
> nearby town (where we should have gone in the first place!)
>
> Maybe that shame is why Bobby Fischer was seldom heard from again!
>
> Regards,
>
> SonC
> http;//www.SonC.com
>