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The Accountant Who Shunned Percentage Chess

  H.E. Bird: A Chess Biography with 1,198 Games Hans Renette 608 pages | hardback | 150 illustrations | 1,198 games | $75.00 Jefferson: McFarland, 2016   Adrian Harvey   During the period after 1860 three British chess players had a plausible claim to be in…

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Chess the Musical

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The Chessplayer-Tramp

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‘This book is definitely for chess players who enjoy reading crime—by a chess player who really knows his underworld.’ Jim Phelan (1895–1966) led an eventful life, but what is known of his chess life?

The Sultan of Swash: Part 3

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In a recent Perpetual Chess Podcast the chess writer and translator Douglas Griffin pointed out how much fine chess literature is waiting to be translated into English; most of it is in Russian, as you might expect. Griffin has been mining Soviet chess archives for…

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‘Music seems to me one of the few things (like chess) which really last through life, and gives one almost as much pleasure towards the end as in the early days.’  H.E. Atkins quoted in R.N. Coles, H.E. Atkins: Doyen of British Chess Champions (London:…

Toby Spiders

Excellent article. This must have felt so good to win for white.
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Beat Zueger

29 March 2019 First official invoice Dear Bachar A chess Pope career in Switzerland is not cheap. Can you send…
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Lucy Komisar

note these exposes of Browder's fictional book: https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/04/browder-commits-identity-theft-his-victim-of-police-violence-in-moscow-2007-is-a-1961-us-freedom-rider/ https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/10/browder-book-fantasy-magnitsky-in-prison-calls-him-on-cell-phone/
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Nagesh Havanur

For all his apparent candour in this book Tal often hid his real self from the rest of the world.…
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