Was Sherlock Holmes A Chess Player ?

[jesskayding]

I started a thread that contains free audio. Much easier & interesting to listen to the old English. I don't know if this would help others. I like listening. It does make it more exciting to see all the references to canon. SIB, follows a lot in the original story.

 

 

http://www.sherlockforum.com/forum/topic/2470-for-the-old-english-illiterate-of-us%E2%80%A6/

[Carol the Dabbler]

Funny -- I never enjoyed reading Conan Doyle's stories until I got an unannotated version.  Dunno why that helped -- maybe the annotations (which never seemed to answer any of my actual questions) distracted me -- or maybe the smaller, lighter volumes were just easier for me to handle.

 

I prefer the short stories.  Most of the novels seem to consist largely of padding, though Hound of the Baskervilles is nice and meaty.

 

[Janie]

I had no problem with the "old English". What I did have a problem with though was that the stories were rather repetitive and sometimes predictable and boring. But overall I enjoyed it quite a lot.

[jesskayding]

Sorry truth... I hope you got your answer about Sherlock being a chess player or not. What did you decide?