The question ‘Which games and pastimes should medical students play?’ was answered on Sunday nov 9th 1823, in one of the very first editions of The Lancet, ‘A journal of British and foreign medicine’. It was founded, edited (and often written) by the eminent surgeon, member of parliament and radical political reformer Thomas Wakley MRCS […]
Tag: Chess
Anna Rudolf, recent cheating-smear victim
The latest (false) cheating scandal in international chess soiled the Vandoeuvre Open in France during the last week in December. Latvian grandmasters were fazed by the strong performance of Anna Rudof, who was unexpectedly leading the tournament. The disgruntled GMs accused the Hungarian phenom of cheating. The pattern of these nebulous accusations is often the […]