Today marks the 150th birthday of Harold James Ruthven Murray (1868–1955), best known for his A History of Chess, published in 1913. The fruits of fourteen years of research, this monumental work of scholarship has been described as ‘perhaps the most important chess book in English’…
Read More
Latest in Joseph Henry Blackburne
More Articles
H.E. Bird: A Chess Biography with 1,198 Games Hans Renette 608 pages | hardback | 150 illustrations | 1,198 games | $75.00 Jefferson: McFarland, 2016 Adrian Harvey During the period after 1860 three British chess players had a plausible claim to be in…
Read More
Joseph Henry Blackburne: A Chess Biography 1 Tim Harding 592 pages | hardback | 95 illustrations | 1,186 games | $75.00 Jefferson: McFarland, 2015 Adrian Harvey When Nigel Short defeated Anatoly Karpov in their match in 1992 he surely secured the greatest triumph ever by…
Read More
We are sure that readers will have come across humorist Stephen Fry. A few months ago, the star of Blackadder, Saturday Night Live, the Comic Strip and numerous radio programmes was interviewed on television. In the background on his bookshelves was a copy of Batsford…
Read More
- 10 Seconds with 7
- About Us 1
- Archive 225
- Articles 97
- Back issues 47
- Cheating 25
- Creative chess 90
- Features 211
- FIDE 49
- Front Page 108
- Games 88
- Hack Attack 54
- History scrapbook 133
- Homepage 110
- Interviews 40
- Kirsan 43
- Letters 9
- Nosher 10
- Private Eye 4
- Quotes 129
- Reviews 90
- Shop 29
- The Penguin Files 38
- The Poisoned Pawn 6
- Uncategorized 1
player
→ Commenting on: The First Chess Column
Steve Cunliffe
→ Commenting on: The Hastings Years: Part 1
Wijnand
→ Commenting on: Caption competition
Remembering IM Colin Crouch (14-x-1956 16-iv-2015) | British Chess News
→ Commenting on: Colin Crouch, 1956-2015