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Swiss Immortal

Zimmermann – Walther Zurich 1955/56 Black to play after 22 Kxf4 Richard Forster, The Zurich Chess Club, 1809-2009 (McFarland 2011), pp.201-2.
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Women prefer bridge

‘Games are the opposite of human contact . . . During their game, chess players are “incommunicado”; they are imprisoned. What is going on in their heads is narcissistic self-gratification with a minimum of objective reality, a wordless sniffing and grabbing in a bottomless pit….
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July 26, 2014 No Comments

Vintage stunner

Jones-Dueball Nice 1974 Black to play ‘This games deserves a special prize for the most stunning move of the Olympiad’ Keene and Levy, Chess Olympiad Nice 1974: World Team Championship (Batsford, 1975), p.137
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July 21, 2014 No Comments

Gens una sumus

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Andrew Whiteley 1947-2014

Andrew Whiteley, who has died aged 67, belonged to the generation of players who ushered in the ‘English Chess Explosion’ of the late 1970s. Most of them cut their teeth as students at either Oxford (Botterill, Lee, Markland, Whiteley) or Cambridge (Hartston, Keene, Stean, Williams)….
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August 1, 2014 No Comments

Swiss Immortal

Zimmermann – Walther Zurich 1955/56 Black to play after 22 Kxf4 Richard Forster, The Zurich Chess Club, 1809-2009 (McFarland...
July 29, 2014 No Comments

Women prefer bridge

‘Games are the opposite of human contact . . . During their game, chess players are “incommunicado”; they are...
July 26, 2014 No Comments

Vintage stunner

Jones-Dueball Nice 1974 Black to play ‘This games deserves a special prize for the most stunning move of the...
July 21, 2014 No Comments

Gens una sumus
July 20, 2014 No Comments

Andrew Whiteley 1947-2014

Andrew Whiteley, who has died aged 67, belonged to the generation of players who ushered in the ‘English Chess...
July 4, 2014 No Comments

Bent Larsen: 20 Questions

What is your earliest memory of playing chess? I was six, and a boy two years older than...
June 22, 2014 No Comments

We’re going on a king hunt

When he took up playing poker seriously Alexander Grischuk was already an elite grandmaster. He’s convinced that chess skills such...
June 14, 2014 No Comments

Divinities and the herd

“There could hardly be a greater contrast in temperament, style of play, even appearance, than exist between the Cuban...
June 8, 2014 No Comments

Cracking move

L. Szabo – C. Kottnauer Szczawno-Zdroj 1950 White to play 21 Bc8!! Nxc8 22 Qh7 Threatening mate. 22…f6 Moving...

June 4, 2013 No Comments

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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 41

‘excellent production quality and content . . . the only chess magazine worth buying besides NIC‘ M.K. Lee, Kuala...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 40

UK: £5.95 Europe: £6.95 RoW: £7.95 ‘Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event. Issue 40...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, issue 39

OUT OF STOCK Kibitzing with the Poisoned Pawn Chemical warfare and the carnally desirable opponent disturb...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 38

UK: £5.00 Europe: £6.00 RoW: £7.00 The End of Mankind’s Humiliation? Morgan Daniels takes a ringside seat...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 37

UK: £5.00 Europe: £5.00 RoW: £6.00 Kibitzing The Poisoned Pawn skewers Nosher, noise and the rampant xenophobia...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 36

UK: £5.00 Europe: £6.00 RoW: £7.00 Kibitzing with the Poisoned Pawn The Poisoned Pawn skewers Kasparov, Keene and Nasty...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 35

UK: £4.50 Europe: £5.50 RoW: £6.50 Kibitzing with the Poisoned Pawn Gary Lane’s Agony Column Tony Kosten’s Diary...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 34

UK: £4.50 Europe: £5.50 RoW: £6.50 The Kingpin Questionnaire Alexander Morozevich A Clash of Opposites Taylor Kingston...

No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60

November 27, 2007· 4 Comments

Lev Khariton The attractive countryside of Meudon is a 15-minute train ride from Paris. Here I came to interview Boris Spassky just three days before his 60th birthday. He reminiscences about his life, his chess career, his rivals and friends. Dear Grandmaster, I should…

How Good Is Your Hacking?

February 26, 2010· 4 Comments

Test Your Benko Refutations with Chris Ward Once upon a time there was an opening of great repute advocated by such English favourites as Hodgson, Hebden and Plaskett. Then along came a little-known Soviet player with the tactical flair of Adams, the optimism of…

Peter Svidler’s questionnaire

February 15, 2009· 3 Comments

What is your earliest memory of playing chess? I have quite a few, including the ones my parents have described to me when I grew up, but the very earliest is the recollection of beating some dude a year older than me when at the…

Nigel Short’s questionnaire

February 26, 2010· 3 Comments

What is your earliest memory of playing chess? I remember playing my father in our first game in about 1971. What is your most memorable game? Beating Mikhail Gurefish [sic] in the last round of the Manila Interzonal. What was your worst…

Swiss Immortal

August 1, 2014· No Comments

Zimmermann – Walther Zurich 1955/56 Black to play after 22 Kxf4 Richard Forster, The Zurich Chess Club, 1809-2009 (McFarland 2011), pp.201-2.

Women prefer bridge

July 29, 2014· No Comments

‘Games are the opposite of human contact . . . During their game, chess players are “incommunicado”; they are imprisoned. What is going on in their heads is narcissistic self-gratification with a minimum of objective reality, a wordless sniffing and grabbing in a bottomless pit….

Books for review, August 2014

July 27, 2014· No Comments

Email kingpinchess@yahoo.com if you would like to review any of these:

Vintage stunner

July 26, 2014· No Comments

Jones-Dueball Nice 1974 Black to play ‘This games deserves a special prize for the most stunning move of the Olympiad’ Keene and Levy, Chess Olympiad Nice 1974: World Team Championship (Batsford, 1975), p.137

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July 16, 2014

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May 2, 2014

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