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We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 1: References

Websites 1) Chess.com, The 12 Most Interesting Chess Players Ever. 2) The Week in Chess, Kasparov-Short St Louis 2015. 3) Kasparov.com, Information Package: Garry Kasparov – Lectures, Keynotes and Seminars. 4) Russipedia, Prominent Russians: Garry Kasparov. 5) Wikipedia, Matthew Syed. Books and Papers a) All…

No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60

November 27, 2007· 8 Comments

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…

Arimaa, Computers and the Future of Chess

February 6, 2015· 7 Comments

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: 20 Questions

January 8, 2015· 7 Comments

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…

We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 3

November 16, 2015· 5 Comments

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…

Chess the Musical (1836)

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Self-help

January 3, 2021· 1 Comment

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

October 30, 2020· 3 Comments

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

October 20, 2020· No Comments

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…

Wijnand

May 31, 2021

The "and" before Lasker and the "-" dash after Lasker suggest that these fourteen have played on the board ,…
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Remembering IM Colin Crouch (14-x-1956 16-iv-2015) | British Chess News

April 16, 2021

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Cameron

April 8, 2021

Looks like it's worth a read. Although a patzer, I've never had the view that memorising openings and drilling tactics…
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Happy 75th Birthday IM Mike Basman (16-iii-1946) | British Chess News

March 16, 2021

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