In this great example of how 5asideCHESS can be used, a group of young people come together with the game to talk about and grieve for a lost friend. A big thank you to Bright Hygiene for their continued support. Follow 5asideCHESS and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter !
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As the Military Tattoo fireworks crashed up into the sky, Tracy threw the last chair out of the window. She hadn’t taken the diagnoses well. And, while Edinburgh cheered and flashed colour, she sat drunk and crying. Her landlord kicked her out. “That was the last straw,” she said, still boozy in the morning. “I
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The fog had blanketed Edinburgh’s tightly knitted old buildings. They leaned in just a bit more than usual, looked a bit more gothic and disappeared if you looked up. People in suits filed wearily but neatly around the tourists, all lost google-mapping themselves the wrong way down stairs. A few comedians were already sulking into
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The Battling Suicide Bus was crowded. A group of students from Manchester University were playing 5asideChess. Alain, a computer engineer from Holland, had just left to buy a few coffees. This was his third day dropping by for a game. Lucy played her music along the cobbled street, sullen and unmoved as usual. Walking past
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Leonardo Di Caprio at 4am. That was Sean. Sunkenly hansom like the sun behind a cloud. “I was earning pretty good money doing drug trails,” he said. “Somewhere in America?” “You mean somewhere in the Americas?” “Ah, sorry, you’re Canadian.” It was lunch time in Edinburgh, the Spanish waiters smiled at the tourists and poured
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It’s funny how some people have a sixth sense for food. Whenever dinner’s ready they knock on the door. Even on the Battling Suicide Tour. Emily came with Cake. Sean appeared out of nowhere. Tracy was already out of The Grassmarket, with her beer, diagnosis and confusion. “Looks like carrot cake,” Sean said. “It’s vegan,”
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Edinburgh had such clear air that day. So polished and focussed you could see the arm folds in the fat elbowed police right at the bottom of Grassmarket. You could see the smallest planes in the air above. A Canadian called Sean was teaching me ‘Suicide Chess’. The coffee was strong and the Spanish waiters
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Some of the best moments on the Battling Suicide Tour happened in car parks. Mainly Tesco Car Parks, actually. The very first one of these car park encounters. The car park encounter of the first kind, if you will, Sci-Fi fans, shaped the whole tour. Leaving Edinburgh, into Tesco at Colinton It was mid July
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Follow the Battling Suicide Tour and help us make a difference on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter ! We met Matt Panesh at the Edinburgh Fringe. “Come to Morecombe on your way down.” So we did. The Morecambe Fringe is Matt’s baby. He’s coddled it up into his Alt Space shop on Yorkshire road. “We are just planting the acorns,” he
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Glasgow is extra strong Ribena. We only spent one day there but met a concentration of people from all walks of life. Divya and her little dog harris spent a good amount of the day with us. She turned into a 5asidechess team member pretty quickly, inviting people to chat, connect and have a cup
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