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Entries from January 8th, 2011

Kingpin should be banned – an open letter to the Chess World

January 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Ida Eddis Foster's letters, The Penguin Files

Dear Chess World, Shocked is scarcely the word for my reaction to issue 40 of Kingpin magazine. Reading the detailed article about Ray Keene, “Machiavelli on Ice”, anyone would conclude that such a man merits no place at all in the chess world. It was bad enough when the previous issue uncharitably put Ray’s writing [...]

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