Crossing pawns with Rod Stewart
Entries from February 27th, 2010
From the President of FIDE
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Features, Kirsan
First published in Kingpin 27 (Summer 1997)
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‘The queen ain’t no bitch. She got all the moves.’
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Features
Chess scene from ‘The Wire’
‘The Buys’ (2002)
D’Angelo Barksdale: Yo, what was that?
Wallace: Hm?
D’Angelo Barksdale: Castle can’t move like that. Yo, castle move up and down and sideways like.
Preston ‘Bodie’ Broadus: Nah, we ain’t playing that.
Wallace: Yeah, look at the board. We playing checkers.
D’Angelo Barksdale: Checkers?
Wallace: Yeah, checkers.
D’Angelo Barksdale: Yo, why you playing checkers on a [...]
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The noble game
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Features
First published in Kingpin 13 (Spring 1988)
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Ida Eddis Foster’s letters in Kingpin
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Ida Eddis Foster's letters, Penguin profiles
Ida’s letters to Kingpin
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How Good Is Your Hacking?
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Games, Hack Attack
Test Your Benko Refutations with IM Chris Ward
first published in Kingpin 19 (Spring 1992)
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 Suba and the pure [...]
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Spot the difference
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, journalism, plagiarism
1974 book The World of Chess by Anthony Saidy and Norman Lessing (p.115):
1990 book Chess An Illustrated History by Raymond Keene (p. 80):
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Where did Nigel get his nickname?
February 26th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Features, Nosher
First published in Kingpin 16 (Winter 1990)
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Troubled relationships
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Reviews
KING’S GAMBIT
A son, a father, and the world’s most dangerous game
Paul Hoffman
Hyperion, 2007, 424 pages
Review by Sarah Hurst
Paul Hoffman hit on a great idea for a book, but I’m not sure that he was aware of it. By the end of King’s Gambit I’d finally worked out what the book should have been about: relationships [...]
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Kingpin in Private Eye!
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · About Us, Private Eye, The Penguin Files
How delightful . . . to see a new website chronicling the Penguin’s career and reproducing many of the articles in which Lord Gnome revealed Keene’s unsavoury history as a chess impresario and businessman. The site – kingpinchess.net – is run by the magazine Kingpin, described by one international chess master as “the Private Eye [...]
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