Forty years ago Michael Stean won $1,000 for the tournament’s most spectacular game: Stean – Browne England v USA, Nice 1974 White to play after 12…Be7 13 Nxe6! Probably the best of the many sacrificial possibilities. 13…fxe6 14 Bxe6 The forcing 14 e5 Nd5 15 Qg6+…
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Max Euwe makes the first move in Browne v Karpov (Amsterdam 1976) Tony Miles’ 1…a6 is not the worst insult Karpov has suffered during a game. Four years earlier Walter Browne showed his utter contempt for the World Champion by arriving at the board in…
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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…
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…
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;…
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Celebrating Hastings
Tim-Jake Gluckman The Chess Battles of Hastings Stories and Games of the Oldest Chess Tournament in the World Jürgen Brustkern and Norbert Wallet 375 pages | 129 photographs | 81 games | Bibliography | Notes e-book | £19.78 Alkmaar: New In Chess, 2022 …
Jimmy Adams, 1947–2026
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
The Brain Games Scandal click below Brain Games First published in Kingpin 40 (Autumn 2009)
A Creature without Counterpart
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…
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