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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 squeeze forced us to sell that spacious abode, so instead we moved a few miles west, to a small semi-detached property high up on a hill,…
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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 life in the town of Hastings, then the line: ‘Is your middle name Norman?’ (or similar witticisms) does tend to crop up with alarming frequency. I…
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Americans prefer poker

‘The game of chess has never been held in great esteem by the North Americans. Their culture is steeped in deeply anti-intellectual tendencies. They pride themselves in having created the game of poker. It is their national game, springing from a tradition of westward expansion,…
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Confessions of a British Nightclubber

While looking at a copy of Chess Monthly, I read with interest while Chris Ward revealed how he had been thinking during his penultimate round game with Jonathan Levitt during last year’s British Championships. Having reached a very promising middlegame position Chris started to daydream. I hand you over to the man himself:
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Combo absurdo

With his sharp eye for the unusual and the bizarre, Tony Miles offered this ‘candidate for the most absurd combination of the year award’. Bellon–Sosonko Amsterdam 1978 Having been positionally outplayed Bellon now produced the incredible 21 Bxa6!!??? The ‘justification’ lying in the variation 21…Bxa6 22…
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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...
March 1, 2014 No Comments

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 24, 2014 No Comments

Americans prefer poker

‘The game of chess has never been held in great esteem by the North Americans. Their culture is steeped...
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...
February 12, 2014 No Comments

Combo absurdo

With his sharp eye for the unusual and the bizarre, Tony Miles offered this ‘candidate for the most absurd combination...
February 9, 2014 No Comments

A fish who makes a lemon is busted

The Students’ Olympiad 1967 W. R. Hartston This event was held in Harrachov, Czechoslovakia in July and Cambridge...
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We’ve all been there

‘After I resigned this game with perfect self-control and solemnly shook hands with my opponent in the best of...
February 4, 2014 No Comments

Irish pawn centre

Short–Trent Gibraltar Masters 2014 (5) position after 14 cxb4 Commentator Simon Williams described White’s tripled isolated b-pawns as the...
January 28, 2014 No Comments

Kirsan kit

Now you can show the FIDE president just how much you worship him with this elegant range of clothes...

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...
March 1, 2014 No Comments

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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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…

The Hastings Years: Part 2

March 5, 2014· 1 Comment

Stuart Conquest remembers his mentor Our first address in Hastings was 11, Cloudesley Road. Some years later an acute economic squeeze forced us to sell that spacious abode, so instead we moved a few miles west, to a small semi-detached property high up on a hill,…

The Hastings Years: Part 1

March 1, 2014· No Comments

Stuart Conquest recalls his reckless youth When one’s surname is Conquest, and when one spends ten years of one’s life in the town of Hastings, then the line: ‘Is your middle name Norman?’ (or similar witticisms) does tend to crop up with alarming frequency. I…

Americans prefer poker

February 24, 2014· No Comments

‘The game of chess has never been held in great esteem by the North Americans. Their culture is steeped in deeply anti-intellectual tendencies. They pride themselves in having created the game of poker. It is their national game, springing from a tradition of westward expansion,…

Confessions of a British Nightclubber

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While looking at a copy of Chess Monthly, I read with interest while Chris Ward revealed how he had been thinking during his penultimate round game with Jonathan Levitt during last year’s British Championships. Having reached a very promising middlegame position Chris started to daydream. I hand you over to the man himself:

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