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Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:07 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:
Sgurr wrote:The Scottish Book kept by Mathematicians in the Lwow School of Mathematics in Poland. However did you come across this HMHT?


Well done Sgurr! :clap: :clap: :clap:

I knew about because my daughter’s doing A level maths.

More impressive is how did you solve it so quickly!

(Unless of course there is a Ken Loach film called Two Men and a Goose, about maths professors on a Scottish-Polish exchange scheme)

Tim


I think the people in the photo are former residents in Sgurr's current house.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Fri Apr 23, 2021 8:32 pm

I don't think any Mathematicians lived in my house. However there was one living next to us in our old house who exchanged jobs and houses with a mathematical family from the US. They got the US family's new modern US car and the US guys got...........the Lada, that our neighbouring mathematicians had managed to keep going with mathematical ingenuity and string, but which sighed and refused to work for the capitalists. I don't know which would have been better at solving the problems from TSB.

How about TSG popular for A and E
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Sun Apr 25, 2021 9:08 am

TSG less reported on these days than in the middle of the nineteenth century, but still current.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Mon Apr 26, 2021 12:33 pm

M was well acquainted with TSG and used it to his advantage.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Glengavel » Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:39 am

The Scottish (or Scots) something? I was trying to think of fictional subjects, but your later clue indicates it's something in the real world.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Apr 27, 2021 10:50 am

You are getting very close Gengavel. People with the sort of mind that appreciated TSB(former clue) would also probably be at home with TSG. Maybe I should point out the M wasn't a Scot.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Tue Apr 27, 2021 3:18 pm

Is this about chess?
TSG would be The Scotch Gambit, a well-know opening though more common in the nineteenth century
If that's it I would guess M would be the American player, Paul Morphy
But maybe not as I'm a bit unsure about A and E. A might be Attack, E can't think of anything except Entertainment...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Apr 27, 2021 5:38 pm

Totally correct except the E is for Energy (Just quoting a site that said it is notable for its energy and aggression). Or this book Ihttps://www.amazon.co.uk/Scotch-Gambit-Energetic-Aggressive-System/dp/1941270743.


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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue Apr 27, 2021 6:09 pm

Is there anything Scottish about TSG and TSB apart from the names? Neither seem to originate in Scotland but as I have never heard of either of them and my research is limited to Google perhaps they do. Maybe having the name "Scotch" or "Scottish" in the title is enough in itself for this quiz. That would make e.g. Scotland Yard eligible for inclusion in the future questions. Please enlighten me!
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Tue Apr 27, 2021 8:01 pm

It originally got its name rom a correspondence match in 1824 between Edinburgh and London when a player from Edinburgh played that opening with white.
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby rohan » Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:17 pm

Sgurr wrote:It originally got its name rom a correspondence match in 1824 between Edinburgh and London when a player from Edinburgh played that opening with white.


Thanks, another bit of knowledge that I will probably forget by next week!
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:22 pm

Actually the Scotch Gambit is a variation of the Scotch Game opening. Many moons ago I played in the lower echelons of competitive chess but don't think I played the Scotch Game very much if at all - was more of a 1. d4 player :)

MB made an excellent introduction to JT and others
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby Sgurr » Wed Apr 28, 2021 12:52 pm

Is it McLelland Brown who made a "gift" of the Dundee Observatory to the then city architect of Dundee James Thomson?
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Wed Apr 28, 2021 4:50 pm

Nope, not that.
MM (not Scottish) was also involved in making the introduction, though in a different way from MB. And another MM (Scottish) was one of those who were introduced in this way...
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Re: Can I have a "P" please Bob - Scotland (2nd edition)

Postby RICHARDCFF » Thu Apr 29, 2021 4:32 pm

Two clues for the price of one:
The introduction that MB and the (non-Scottish) MM made was also a finale
MM (the Scottish one) was JT
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