We are all submerged, even now the clocks have turned, in the liquid ideas of after-dark. Away from anything solid or true, blowing hot air at ourselves. Rushing on worries about our social media lives and the jobs we do to make other people rich. Am I doing well enough? Moving fast enough? Is it […]
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What is 5asideCHESS? Do you need 5 players? No, wait, you need 10 players, right? Hold on, is this something to do with football? Thankyou generic person in generic cafe, they are all great questions, but sadly you are generically wrong on all generic accounts. The questions are valid, though, so let me explain what
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Words By: Alex Tomlin Anxiety, is a p****. There’s no two ways about it, the seemingly perpetual dread that feels like it’s never going to end until you spontaneously combust or pass out. I spent a long time trying to make the latter happen through various different methods, mainly alcohol. However, my first point of
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Words By: Sam Vickery Anxiety is a p****. It’s something I’ve dealt with on and off since my early 20’s. It would usually just be the pit feeling in my stomach, yet sometimes this would crescendo with a top notch panic attack. However, through time I have learnt to control it as best I could.
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At 5asideCHESS we believe strongly in the art of conversation as a prevention and cure, short or long term, to poor mental health in all of its capacities. As part of our Handling Headspace Series, we asked three people to offer their best tips on dealing with Anxiety. Here is the first by a young
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Ally looks into the beginnings of social media and how it’s turned us all into self serving what-ya-call-its, devoid of emotional attachment and unable to shake an obsession with creating new personalities and lives online. And, of course, with that problem we are offering our solution, the very excellent 5asideCHESS Pack ! Buy one and
Ally Explores our Narcissistic, Social Media Driven World – 5asideChess can help ! Read More »
We are delighted to announce that the 5asideCHESS Pack will soon be available to buy at RegencyChess.co.uk. Everyone that buys a set will become a 5asideCHESS HELLO Person, challenged to go out and Connect with other people in their community. In each set you will receive our brilliant board, a Hello Sign and your Unique
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Words By: Eddie Joah The writing of this article was heavily avoided until far too close to deadline. Ironically, the avoidance came strapped to the mother of all irony bombs. The writer was scared people with anxiety would consider it ill informed and generally crap. He was anxious about how anxious people would feel about
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See our Latest Schedule Here Sometimes the most obvious things in the world only become clear once we have experienced them for ourselves. “You’re still the same person, despite where you are.” “He’s no good for you.” “Marmite is only good with butter.” Love those facts or hate them, they are all things we only ever
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Words By: Evan Rabin Premier Chess’ students range in geography from New York to the Northwestern Territory of Canada to Sri Lanka! Ever since I played a tournament in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in 2010, the international chess bug has hit me and I’ve played tournaments in Israel, Spain, France and Argentina and
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