THE SCOTTISH Chess Championships take place in Glasgow's Trades Hall this summer, with a £2000 prize for the top player.
It's a great game, chess, but alas, not everyone agrees. We remember comic Matt Kirshen at the Edinburgh Fringe declaring: "I was playing chess with my friend, and he said, 'Let's make this more interesting.' So we stopped playing chess."
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