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Thanks Ian and Sue for the welcome. I'm not sure Sue, if I wear better shirts than Ian but I undoubtedly wear worse trousers! For an avatar I've dug out a photograph of me at a chess tournament in Swansea. If you are very keen sighted that's grandmaster John Nunn above my hair in the middle. The Co...

Thanks Ian and Sue for the welcome. I'm not sure Sue, if I wear better shirts than Ian but I undoubtedly wear worse trousers! For an avatar I've dug out a photograph of me at a chess tournament in Swansea. If you are very keen sighted that's grandmaster John Nunn above my hair in the middle. The Cou...

Hi. I'm Ian Glendenning, an Astronomy and Space lecturer at the University of Glamorgan in South Wales. I've been watching Countdown fairly regularly since about 2002. I'm better at the numbers than the letters but no way good enough to audition for the show. I do, however, play chess competitively....