Rock Around the Clock

But before Agon’s water well, Caïssa called an emergency pit stop at Gibraltar, where the 16th Tradewise Gibraltar Chess Festival will take place in Catalan Bay (La Caleta) from 21 January to 1 February 2018. Grandmaster Stuart Conquest – Herr Direktor – is restlessly working in hunting down big names for his dynamic screenplay, and has already catched a host of eggheads, but undoubtedly still misses something. Perhaps Stuart could invite 侯逸凡 (Hóu Yìfán) up to verify if, in the meantime, she has exhausted all the subtleties of the Grob’s Attack, or maybe he doesn’t want her to play anymore on the Rock – but I’m sure it’s not the case. Whatever it will be, Stuart has vivid imagination, delicate sensibility of soul, and no need of any advice from mere amateurs such as me. Who knows, maybe his Swiss magic cube will pair Anna Olehivna only with Arabian male players, so as to test her constancy and self-control.

Catalan Bay, Gibraltar, 1861. Illustration: Edward William Cooke.