(160) Yorkshire chess displays

On the evening of May 12th 1999 I phoned Peter Cloudsdale to confirm that I would be coming to York on the 14th to give two lectures and a display the next day.
I then went out to post a letter and came back five minutes later to see that my wife was playing a video she had hired entitled Fairytale: A True Story.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairyTale:_A_True_Story
A scene had been reached where a Yorkshire chess challenge was being issued to allcomers by a local champion.

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