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Horsing Around

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…

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The Chessplayer-Tramp

‘This book is definitely for chess players who enjoy reading crime—by a chess player who really knows his underworld.’ Jim Phelan (1895–1966) led an eventful life, but what is known of his chess life?

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Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event
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Celebrating Hastings

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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  …

Jimmy Adams, 1947–2026

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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…

Machiavelli on Ice

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The Brain Games Scandal click below Brain Games     First published in Kingpin 40 (Autumn 2009)

A Creature without Counterpart

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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…

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Amatza Avni

...Just learned about his death. very sad. He edited two or three of my books and proofed my Baron articles…
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Alan Crombleholme

I hope that this message will reach someone who can help and that it will not be thought an outrageous…
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Epawn

And now, November 2025, Ron's brother Kenny has passed away.
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