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‘With Chances for Both Sides . . .’

James Plaskett Complex games may demand intense scrutiny. Thirty-seven years after this one was played in the penultimate round of the world’s most prestigious Open, I offer my final verdict. Early in 2023, Shirov contacted me to say that analysis with Stockfish 15 had revealed…

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Pen-portraits by Julian Barnes

Edward Winter bemoans the lack of pen-portraits in chess writing:  ‘a highly demanding form of writing which requires no particular chess expertise yet is almost universally avoided nowadays’. Chess writers are, with a few exceptions,  chess experts rather than writers and rarely venture outside their…

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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…

Chess and the Nazis

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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…

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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