12th September 2022 our Birmingham League 2nd and 3rd teams, about to play each other in Division 2, assembled randomly for a group photo. Left to right, seated: John Mildenhall, Keith Escott. Standing: Arjun Pyda, Rob Marks, Roy Lawrence, Iqbal Dhesi, Marek Soszynski, Peter Oliver, Chris East, Glenn Windows. Out of shot: Jet Ajimal, Larry Hayden. (Picture by Jaylan Rahmatullah.)A typical club night at our home venue, the Minworth Club & Lodge, Monday 23rd May 2022. In the left foreground is our Club Treasurer, Rob Marks playing new member Robert Stevens. (Picture by Jaylan Rahmatullah.) Two Sutton Coldfield CC members were paired against each other in the Coventry Rapidplay Open Section (Massey Ferguson Social Club) Sunday 8th December 2019: Marek Soszynski versus Golam Ali (in the red cap). [Picture by Hok Chiu.] This is Professor Edward H. Adelson’s remarkable “Checker shadow illusion” of 1995 in which, despite appearances, the squares marked A and B are exactly the same shade of gray. [Image may be reproduced and distributed freely.]