Talk:Jon Speelman

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The link Bob Wade is to a different person with the same name. I don't know what to do to fix it.

Amusingly (or annoyingly, I'm not sure), the article at Robert Wade is also not about the chess player. I'll try to sort it all out.

Incidentally, while I'm here: the article says that Speelman "is also known as "Spess", short for "specimen", one of the many misspellings of his name in the press over the years." Is this really correct? My memory is that "specimen" was the suggested word you got if you put his name into certain spellcheckers (I remember doing this was a recurring theme in Mike Fox and Richard James' Addicts Corner column in Chess Monthly a few years ago). "Specimen" seems a rather unlikely misspelling to me. --Camembert

I don't know, but in an ielts prep book (proficiency testbuilder 4th ed.), there is an unsourced article saying that 'the times' made the mistake. I don't think it is so unlikely: s/s p/p e/e el/cI m/m a/e [ both pronounced schwa and similar in a lot of handwriting ] n/n . 09:39, 31 January 2020 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.109.221.155 (talk)

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Eyesight[edit]

How bad is his eyesight? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wantsneveio2 (talk • contribs) 16:41, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I remember reading an extended article about him, probably in The Observer (a British broadsheet), in the early nineties, which noted his tendency to have eyebleeds during games. When concentrating to the max, tissue near his eyes haemorrhaged. He acknowledged it was a handicap. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Harrylentil (talk • contribs) 22:27, 14 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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