"Tempus fugit..."

That was Nigel Short's twitter reaction to this tweet by Lars Grahn:

Thessaloniki Olympiad 1988. England Silver. Speelman, Nunn, Chandler, Mestel, Watson, and Short. Photo: Lars Grahn pic.twitter.com/NGdjuC2WRy

— Lars Grahn (@larsgrahn) August 17, 2016

He's not wrong!

Agony

ChessBase has hired English GM Jon Speelman to write a weekly Agony column. Readers are invited to submit their own personal horror stories for Speelman to analyze. Some may remember that Kingpin Magazine has had an Agony column, and that once, long ago, Michael Wilder wrote such a column for a now extinct magazine. (An example can be found here.) I have this belief that Joel Benjamin also wrote such a column at one point in time, but that's probably my mind playing tricks on me.

Apparently, people like to suffer, and then like to add public humiliation on top of the suffering. I can't really offer any censure of such behavior, given that I publish my own games....