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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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[its] satirical nature and penchant for sharp games makes it compulsive reading for the average club player
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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…

Music

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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:…

Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Play Chess

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‘. . . Hillary Clinton asserted that Donald Trump is “playing checkers and Putin is playing three-dimensional chess”. . . In fact, there is no evidence that Putin plays chess, and in any case, it is not his sort of game. Chess is a contest of…

For the Ladies

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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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Kirsan

Thank you for an interesting article about our republic. We don't get to read a lot about criticism of Kirsan.…
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