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How to run a school chess club

Antony Mann As every great chess player who runs a Chess School will tell you, enrolling your child in (preferably their) Academy will do wonders for their self-esteem, powers of concentration, focus and personal hygiene, as well as giving them a head start in that…
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Poor development

Victor Kahn Many games are lost, by amateurs and masters alike, on account of poor development. The main cause is loss of time from either launching a premature attack or capturing pawns in the opening. When the hasty attack has petered out or when a…
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April 13, 2014 No Comments

Inside story

The Independent (10 April 2014) reported that ‘Forty of the nation’s leading writers have sent the Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, protest postcards with the name of the book they would most like to send to a prisoner – if they still could –…
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16 years is a Short time to wait

Sarah Hurst It is very gratifying to live long enough to receive an acknowledgement that you have done something right. As some readers may recall, in 1998 I campaigned for a boycott of the chess Olympiad in Kalmykia in the wake of the murder of…
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Grandmaster snap of the week

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April 21, 2014 No Comments

How to run a school chess club

Antony Mann As every great chess player who runs a Chess School will tell you, enrolling your child in...
April 15, 2014 No Comments

Poor development

Victor Kahn Many games are lost, by amateurs and masters alike, on account of poor development. The main cause...
April 13, 2014 No Comments

Inside story

The Independent (10 April 2014) reported that ‘Forty of the nation’s leading writers have sent the Secretary of State for...
April 7, 2014 No Comments

16 years is a Short time to wait

Sarah Hurst It is very gratifying to live long enough to receive an acknowledgement that you have done something...
April 3, 2014 No Comments

Grandmaster snap of the week
March 29, 2014 1 Comment

When Vishy lost in 6

Zapata–Anand Biel, 1988 1 e4 e5 2 Nf3 Nf6 3 Nxe5 d6 4 Nf3 Nxe4 5 Nc3 5…Bf5?? 6...
March 25, 2014 No Comments

Keith Arkell celebrates a sage of strategy

‘Ulf Andersson’s style is a remarkable blend of Stahlberg and Petrosian, with a sprinkling of Nimzowitsch thrown in...
March 20, 2014 No Comments

Short and brutal

Chess Superminiatures Nick Pelling Compelling Press, Kindle Edition Ebook £1.90 / $3.00 First it’s ‘Test Yourself!’ then ‘Beware: Blunder!’...
March 18, 2014 No Comments

A game of chance

‘The ultimate truth about chess is that it is a game of chance. All a chess player can do...

March 25, 2014 No Comments

Keith Arkell celebrates a sage of strategy

‘Ulf Andersson’s style is a remarkable blend of Stahlberg and Petrosian, with a sprinkling of Nimzowitsch thrown in...
March 5, 2014 1 Comment

The Hastings Years: Part 2

Stuart Conquest remembers his mentor Our first address in Hastings was 11, Cloudesley Road. Some years later an acute economic...
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The Hastings Years: Part 1

Stuart Conquest recalls his reckless youth When one’s surname is Conquest, and when one spends ten years of one’s...
February 21, 2014 No Comments

Confessions of a British Nightclubber

While looking at a copy of Chess Monthly, I read with interest while Chris Ward revealed how he had...
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Kingpin Chess Magazine, Issue 41

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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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UK: £5.00 Europe: £6.00 RoW: £7.00 The End of Mankind’s Humiliation? Morgan Daniels takes a ringside seat...

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…

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…

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…

How to run a school chess club

April 21, 2014· No Comments

Antony Mann As every great chess player who runs a Chess School will tell you, enrolling your child in (preferably their) Academy will do wonders for their self-esteem, powers of concentration, focus and personal hygiene, as well as giving them a head start in that…

Poor development

April 15, 2014· No Comments

Victor Kahn Many games are lost, by amateurs and masters alike, on account of poor development. The main cause is loss of time from either launching a premature attack or capturing pawns in the opening. When the hasty attack has petered out or when a…

Inside story

April 13, 2014· No Comments

The Independent (10 April 2014) reported that ‘Forty of the nation’s leading writers have sent the Secretary of State for Justice, Chris Grayling, protest postcards with the name of the book they would most like to send to a prisoner – if they still could –…

16 years is a Short time to wait

April 7, 2014· No Comments

Sarah Hurst It is very gratifying to live long enough to receive an acknowledgement that you have done something right. As some readers may recall, in 1998 I campaigned for a boycott of the chess Olympiad in Kalmykia in the wake of the murder of…

Just some bloody Paddy

April 23, 2014

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