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Kirsan's Last Supper?
October 14, 2017
Head chef and proprietor Georgios Makropoulos Honoured guest Kirsan Ilyumzhinov See also Ilyumzhinov Hires Campaign Manager Ilyumzhinov to Run for FIDE President in 2018 Ilyumzhinov Loses Even More Power as FIDE President The Man Who Bought Chess Kirsan Ilyumzhinov and Aliens We Are Family ...
An End to the Silly Season
August 29, 2017
August is the traditional time of year for such headlines, but it’s a convention rarely observed by the British tabloid press. For Rupert Murdoch and his phone-hacking chums every month is game. The ‘news story’ about Princess Anne appeared in fools’ April. April 1992, that...
Literary Lion
August 13, 2017
We are looking forward to this star-studded event where Ray Keene will be discussing his latest book with the writer and critic Jonathan Meades. See also Ray Keene Plagiarism Index Copying The Sincerest Form of Flattery? Another One in the Eye
The Marzipan Queen
August 6, 2017
‘Petroshan had outplayed Bronstein in a manner that must be a novum to the former challenger: with the exception of one knight, which showed some signs of activity around his Q5, Bronstein never got a single piece into useful play. With four moves to go—Petroshan...
Eternal, Beautiful and True
July 10, 2017
‘The thing for which Fischer’s friends most value him is an elusive purity of spirit, an integrity of purpose which springs from his respect for chess not just as a game or an intellectual discipline, but something eternal, beautiful and true. This unbending dedication does...
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