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Basman at the British

Michael Basman Editor’s note: What is striking about these games is how each highlights different aspects of Mike’s playing style. As you might expect, there is his calling card – the outlandish opening 1 e4 g5 (‘totally bonkers’ –Nigel Short), but next is an epic…

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Not the British Chess Magazine

  NTBCM was a funny spoof magazine edited by Murray Chandler. Borrowing the format of its venerable target, NTBCM published only one issue (in 1984), an entertaining mix of strange games, jokes and witty articles such as  ‘How Weird Is Your Chess’ by Jon Speelman,…

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een mixture van absolute totale kolder en serieuze schaakinformatie
Nederlands Dagblad

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…

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...Just learned about his death. very sad. He edited two or three of my books and proofed my Baron articles…
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And now, November 2025, Ron's brother Kenny has passed away.
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