‘You can learn a lot by losing’ : meet Don Manuel, the 104-year-old chess player

20 octobre 2025 | Sam Jones in Madrid
Manuel Álvarez Escudero, from Spain, describes how the board game has provided him with a lifetime of fun and friendship The year Manuel Álvarez Escudero learned to play chess, fascist bombs rained down on Guernica, echoing across Pablo Picasso’s enormous, monochrome canvas, the Hindenburg (…)
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