Can't do chess, as I said above; but do lots of crosswords -- the English cryptic kind rather than the US big-square sort -- Times & Guardian every morning, Spectator weekly, &c. Have won a couple of small prizes over the years, but that isn't the motivation — they only go to the first opened, so are a lottery really rather than a genuine reward!. They have been part of my life since my long-ago teenage. It is all for my pleasure and occupation-in-retirement lately; & not done primarily with any utilitarian motive. But I hope, aet 84, that they may prove of some effect in staving off the dreaded Alzheimers & suchlike terrors to the aged!

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But I forgot the name 'Alzheimers' and had to google it: hope that doesn't mean...