Latest in Articles

Celebrating Hastings

Tim-Jake Gluckman The Chess Battles of Hastings Stories and Games of the Oldest Chess Tournament in the World Jürgen Brustkern and Norbert Wallet   375 pages | 129 photographs | 81 games | Bibliography | Notes e-book | £19.78 Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2022  …

Read More

More Articles

Jimmy Adams, 1947–2026

FIDE Master Jimmy Adams, who has died aged 79 after a long illness, was one of the great chess storytellers. He was cast in the mould of Irving Chernev and Fred Reinfeld – lively, versatile and cultured writers he admired, emulated, and surpassed. He honed…

Read More

A Creature without Counterpart

Sir George Thomas wrote more about badminton than chess, which makes this article (published in 1927) something of a rarity. In it he compares chess with his favourite sports, tennis and badminton.   ‘the true chess fiend is a creature without counterpart’ Chess Fiends! By…

Read More

Chess and the Nazis

Tim-Jake Gluckman Chess in the Third Reich How the Game Was Played, Glorified, and Abused in Nazi Germany, 1933–1945 Taylor Kingston   vi + 285 pages | 98 photos, appendix, notes, bibliography, indexes hardback | €49.95 Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2025   Taylor Kingston (TK) is…

Read More

Sweden’s Man of Steel

Gideon Ståhlberg: An Epoch in Swedish Chess Volume I: The Musketeer Years 1908-1939 Peter Holmgren   xvi + 582 pages | photos and tables hardback | €50.00 Tallinn: Verendel Publishing, 2024   Gideon Ståhlberg was one of the world’s leading players from the mid-1930s to…

Read More

Basman at the British

Michael Basman Editor’s note: What is striking about these games is how each highlights different aspects of Mike’s playing style. As you might expect, there is his calling card – the outlandish opening 1 e4 g5 (‘totally bonkers’ –Nigel Short), but next is an epic…

Read More

Brian Eley (1946–2022)

Eley died in Amsterdam on 6 April 2022.   10 Seconds with Brian Eley Wikipedia: Brian Eley When a Man Disappears from an Interpol List: the Strange Case of Brian Eley  

Read More

Spassky’s Toughest Simul

The chess boom triggered by the 1972 Fischer–Spassky match enthused many talented youngsters, especially in Britain. Boris Spassky became an early casualty of the fallout from the ‘English chess explosion’ when he took on a schoolboy squad over 30 boards in 1979. The event was…

Read More

Pop Philosophy

  The Moves That Matter A Chess Grandmaster on the Game of Life Jonathan Rowson 352 pages | hardback | £20.00 London: Bloomsbury, 2019 Sarah Hurst   The Moves That Matter is the very personal story of Jonathan Rowson’s search for meaning in life and…

Read More
slot gacor
ssh account
Slot
slot88