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November 25, 2017 1 Comment

GYULA BREYER, Part 2

Jimmy Adams Here are more comments to add to those I gave last time on Edward Winter’s critique of my new book Gyula Breyer: The Chess Revolutionary. Golombek on Breyer Pages 384-385 quote extracts from three Times columns by Harry Golombek (1975, 1977 and 1978),…

September 12, 2013 No Comments

“Please chessgames.com . . . can I have my game back?”

– asks Jimmy Adams Following my recent interview for Kingpin, conducted by Sarah Hurst, the editor has asked me to provide some documentary evidence that once upon a time I really did play chess and not just talk about it. Well, it’s been quite a while since…

No Regrets: Boris Spassky at 60

November 27, 2007· 7 Comments

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…

Arimaa, Computers and the Future of Chess

February 6, 2015· 7 Comments

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: 20 Questions

January 8, 2015· 6 Comments

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…

We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 3

November 16, 2015· 5 Comments

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…

The Chessplayer-Tramp

July 21, 2019· No Comments

‘This book is definitely for chess players who enjoy reading crime—by a chess player who really knows his underworld.’ Jim Phelan (1895–1966) led an eventful life, but what is known of his chess life?

The Sultan of Swash: Part 3

June 9, 2019· No Comments

In a recent Perpetual Chess Podcast the chess writer and translator Douglas Griffin pointed out how much fine chess literature is waiting to be translated into English; most of it is in Russian, as you might expect. Griffin has been mining Soviet chess archives for…

Music

May 21, 2019· No Comments

‘Music seems to me one of the few things (like chess) which really last through life, and gives one almost as much pleasure towards the end as in the early days.’ H.E. Atkins quoted in R.N. Coles, H.E. Atkins: Doyen of British Chess Champions (London:…

Vladimir Putin Doesn’t Play Chess

May 19, 2019· 1 Comment

‘. . . Hillary Clinton asserted that Donald Trump is “playing checkers and Putin is playing three-dimensional chess”. . . In fact, there is no evidence that Putin plays chess, and in any case, it is not his sort of game. Chess is a contest of…

Beat Zueger

May 20, 2019

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

March 2, 2019

note these exposes of Browder's fictional book: https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/04/browder-commits-identity-theft-his-victim-of-police-violence-in-moscow-2007-is-a-1961-us-freedom-rider/ https://www.thekomisarscoop.com/2018/10/browder-book-fantasy-magnitsky-in-prison-calls-him-on-cell-phone/
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Nagesh Havanur

December 18, 2018

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

December 17, 2018

Thank you for an interesting article about our republic. We don't get to read a lot about criticism of Kirsan.…
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