The Grandmaster scowled at the autograph hunter and dutifully scribbled on the ticket. He had just blundered a game away, losing horribly in under 25 moves. That he, a World Championship candidate no less, had crushed his young English opponent in a simultaneous display the…
Read More
Latest in 2017 June
More Articles
CHESS AND CHARACTER. To the Editor of The Daily Mail. Sir,—There appears to be a recrudescence of interest in the perennial game of chess. Most of us can play, indifferently or well; most of us play for amusement. But I wonder whether it is generally…
Read More
Daniel Johnson reviews Garry Kasparov’s Deep Thinking Times, 3 June 2017, p.16. We know exactly why Deep Blue knew that its eighth (not seventh) move, Nxe6, was winning by force: it was programmed to play this well-known winning line.
Read More
- 10 Seconds with 7
- About Us 1
- Archive 228
- Articles 99
- Back issues 48
- Cheating 27
- Creative chess 95
- Features 222
- FIDE 51
- Front Page 118
- Games 90
- Hack Attack 55
- History scrapbook 140
- Homepage 114
- Interviews 41
- Kirsan 43
- Letters 10
- Nosher 11
- Private Eye 4
- Quotes 131
- Reviews 92
- Shop 29
- The Penguin Files 38
- The Poisoned Pawn 6
- Uncategorized 7
Blair
→ Commenting on: Confessions of a Crooked Chess Master – Part 2
Moyra Ashford
→ Commenting on: The Chess Player and the Train Robber
Danny Nakamura
→ Commenting on: Buy all the back issues
Big Fan
→ Commenting on: Buy all the back issues