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Both serious and funny, I recommend it to anyone who wants to smile as he reads
Jeremy Silman, Inside Chess

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Chess Improvement It’s all in the mindset  Barry Hymer and Peter Wells 334 pages | Softback | Bibliography | Index | £15.99 Crown House Publishing, 2020 Carl Portman   This is not so much a review as a summary of my thoughts as a passionate…

Chess is Never Square in The Queen’s Gambit

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Sarah Hurst The Queen’s Gambit is an entertaining Netflix drama based on a novel that presents chess in a positive light and makes all the right points about women’s struggles on and off the board. It’s hard these days not to see all period drama…

Horsing Around

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Writer Patrick Leigh Fermor and wife Joan social distancing with friends on the Greek island of Hydra in 1954 (Clockwise from top left: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Cyril Connolly, Maurice Bowra, unknown, Joan Leigh Fermor) Joan Leigh Fermor (née Rayner) was ‘addicted to chess’ (obituary, Daily…

Chess and Recession

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“There is a new era in chess. For the past three years new clubs have been springing up in mushroom growths, chess books of all sorts are avidly bought, library shelves are depleted of these volumes. Newspapers are giving more space to the game, recognizing…

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"What is the purpose of FIDE?" heh that was funny
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Skeptic

Edward Winter, when reviewing the original book in the 80s, noted that "Chess Notes reviewed many works of fiction, but…
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Sarah Hurst

Yes Frank, I said that great players are respected regardless of gender. There are many other references to sexism in…
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Frank D Berry Jr

Things have hardly improved? One throws up one's hands. These days, the majority of undergraduates and in both types of…
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