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Nigel Short’s Questionnaire

  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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The joy of chess is nowhere celebrated to such climactic excesses as in Kingpin
William Hartston, The Independent

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by Raymondo I have been totally and utterly besieged, inundated, deluged, submerged, flooded, swamped, overwhelmed and snowed under by amazingly fascinating readers’ comments on the fascinatingly amazing game I presented as a tribute in The Times of 25 February, in which I paid homage to…

The Hypermodern Dessert

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Hapless Miguel

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‘Najdorf is harping on his constant “bad luck”. . . We are not sharing this impression. We think differently and to better explain the why and wherefore, we cite the insurance companies which have statistics for everything. When a person has an accident and everything…

Alekhine’s Kindness

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CORRESPONDENCE B.H. WOOD, Esq., CHESS. Dear Wood, There is one aspect of Dr. Alekhine’s character which may come as a surprise to chess players generally, for in that respect he has not been very widely advertised, that of kindness and readiness to help. In 1938…

Grunty

"impish smile" Just look at that face - isn't it that of a gnome? He had such magic inside, you…
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Toby Spiders

Excellent article. This must have felt so good to win for white.
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Beat Zueger

29 March 2019 First official invoice Dear Bachar A chess Pope career in Switzerland is not cheap. Can you send…
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Nagesh Havanur

For all his apparent candour in this book Tal often hid his real self from the rest of the world.…
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