Liverpol - Day two/three: British Chess Championship

Friday

As promised we were up early hunting down Lambananas. I guess it's hard to sleep when the Dodger is driving the porcelain bus all morning.

We had to get as much done early in the days as possible as the chess championship started at 12:30. We were drawn against each other so at least one of us would make it through to the next round. We found a staggering 50 of the suckers this time thanks to a little visit to the Liverpool 08 store which had a map with a list of where they are/should be. More about that in a moment.

On to the chess tournament.... up front I have to say that am pretty good but I was well impressed with the way Roger , using Kasparov famous 'attacking bishop' technique, was able to expose my king and take the match within 19 moves. So through to the next round... or so we thought. It seems that the urine sample that Roger had given before the match contained traces of Ritalin (used on kids with ADD to help them concentrate) so he too was kicked out of the tournament.

This gave us a lot more time for Lambanana hunting. Some were easy to find, others hard and some just plain weren't there!

Back to the Dodgers we went before walking down to the local curry house for something a little different then it was onto the Raven Hotel for a couple of beers before an early night.

Saturday

We got up around 10 and had a few hours till our flight s the Dodger and Jane decide we'd go for a wee drive and of course we drove in the direction of the Lambananas that we hadn't seen before. I scoffed down some of the worst McDonalds I have ever eaten then we were popped on a plane. I'll wrote more about the flight and what we did after in our Barcelona blog....

Once again big thanks to our host with the most... catch ya soon buddy!

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