What is your earliest memory of playing chess? I remember playing my father in our first game in about 1971. What is your most memorable game? Beating Mikhail Gurefish [sic] in the last round of the Manila Interzonal. What was your worst…
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Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event
very, very entertaining
Utterly irreverent . . . genuine wit . . . good instruction for club players
those who are unfamiliar with Kingpin are missing out on a real delight: there are many good chess magazines around, but in my opinion Kingpin is the best out there
very, very entertaining . . . some of the back issues of Kingpin were instant classics
Please, do people really believe what they read in Kingpin? I am amazed! It’s like taking a satirical show and mistaking it for the news
unquestionably the funniest chess magazine in the world
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…
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 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…
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 World Disrupted by Oriental Fruit
David Thompson, ‘A Platform that Disrupted the World of Chess’, ITechPost, 18 September 2021 Read the full juicy story here.
The First Chess Column
The first chess column to appear in a newspaper was published in the Liverpool Mercury on this day in 1813.
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