Rita,
Now that was an amazing dude.
Jim H
On Dec 3, 2023, at 6:59 AM, Marietta Crawford <mcrawford7008@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Fun With Puns
I used to date a girl with a lazy eye. It turns out she was seeing someone else
the whole time!
My roommates are concerned that I'm using their kitchen utensils, but that's a
whisk I’m willing to take.
Why should you never fight a dinosaur? You'll get jurasskicked!
I don't trust people who do acupuncture. They're back stabbers.
Smile!
A brain walks into a bar and takes a seat. “I’d like some wings and a pint of
beer, please,” he says.
“Sorry, but I can’t serve you,” the bartender replies. “You’re out of your
head.”
Did You Know…
Reginald Walter Bonham informally originated The International Braille Chess
Association in 1951 by organizing the first international correspondence chess
tournament for blind players; the tournament included 20 players representing
10 countries. The International Braille Chess Association first organized an
over-the-board tournament in 1958, with representatives from seven countries.
Today, it has grown to encompass over 50 member nations around the world.
Reginald Walter Bonham (31 January 1906 – 16 March 1984) was a blind chess
player from St. Neots, England known for his achievements in both blind and
sighted chess. After founding The International Braille Chess Association in
1951, he became the Blind World Chess Champion in 1958 and the Correspondence
Blind World Champion in 1957, 1959, 1961, 1964 (jointly) and 1966.
Reginald Bonham won numerous tournaments throughout Worcester and the English
Midlands. In 1934, he founded the Braille Chess Magazine (BCM), which he wrote
and edited for 25 years, and after World War II he took up correspondence
chess, which is when he founded the first correspondence chess tournament for
the blind in 1951. He founded the International Braille Chess Association
(IBCA) in 1951 and the IBCA became affiliated with FIDE 1964. Bonham won the
first English Blind Chess Championship in 1956. In addition to his achievements
against the visually impaired, Bonham also had many victories against sighted
competition. He won the Hastings Reserve Tournament in 1931, the Birmingham
Tournament on three consecutive occasions, was Worcestershire County Champion
twenty times, was champion of the nine Midlands Couties three times and won the
Birmingham Post Cup twice. On six occasions he competed in the British Chess
Championship where his best result was ninth place. He died in Worcester,
England at the age of 78.
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