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uses impiety and parody to hew down the conventions of publishing, even including mock testimonials
the ‘Private Eye’ of the chess world
some of the most varied, sometimes most interesting, and certainly least inhibited chess writing available today
Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event
very, very entertaining
Utterly irreverent . . . genuine wit . . . good instruction for club players
those who are unfamiliar with Kingpin are missing out on a real delight: there are many good chess magazines around, but in my opinion Kingpin is the best out there
very, very entertaining . . . some of the back issues of Kingpin were instant classics
Please, do people really believe what they read in Kingpin? I am amazed! It’s like taking a satirical show and mistaking it for the news
unquestionably the funniest chess magazine in the world
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…
Andy Lewis A common Arimaa starting position Anyone for a variation on chess? Is chess played out? This concern has been voiced periodically over the history of the game, and the challenges has never been more profound: over-refinement of opening-theory; perfection of endgame technique;…
Sarah Hurst was a regular contributor to CHESS magazine in the 1990s and also edited the British Chess Federation’s newsletter, ChessMoves. Her fine book Curse of Kirsan: Adventures in the Chess Underworld is now available on Kindle at a bargain price. Since 2002 she has been translating…
Why Life Does Not Imitate Chess Part 3: The Visionary Followers of Garry Kasparov on Facebook will have noted that he has taken to styling himself as a ‘politician’. What’s his track record? All chess players will know about his campaign for FIDE president…
David Thompson, ‘A Platform that Disrupted the World of Chess’, ITechPost, 18 September 2021 Read the full juicy story here.
The first chess column to appear in a newspaper was published in the Liverpool Mercury on this day in 1813.
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Yeah, what’s a matter with you Brits? I grew up playing chess on Santa Monica Beach, on the boardwalk near the pier. Where Najdorf took on all comers (during the ’66 Piatagorsky Cup), Walter Browne hustled, and a vast assortment of madmen, surfers, retired wrestlers and , yes, even serious chess players, spent long afternoons blaming their blunders on bikinis.
I might also mention the time way back in 1979 I ended up near 75th and Broadway in Manhattan at one in the morning watching GM Roman Dzindzihashvili giving super-strong IM Norman Weinstein 1 to 5 minute odds at blitz, all the time downing shots and gazing off in the distance .. well, at least as far as the waitress ..
It’s mostly too cold for street chess in the UK… http://CasualChess.Org operates all year round, indoors… 🙂