Latest in Winter is Coming
No Comments

The No.1 Bestseller

  By the same author   See also Reflections on Garry Kasparov 10 Seconds with Garry Kasparov We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 1: A New Beginning We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 2: Good Decisions We Need to Talk about Garry, Part…

Read More

More Articles

5 Comments

We Need to Talk about Garry, Part 3

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…

Read More
one of the very few chess publications that call a chess spade a chess spade
ChessCafe

Two Sultans

· 1 Comment

Two remarkable players, Sultan Khan (1905–1966) and Victor Soultanbéieff (1895–1972), met at the International Team Tournament at Folkestone in 1933. Sultan Khan, one of the game’s most naturally gifted stars, represented the British Empire, and Soultanbéieff his adoptive country, Belgium. In a dazzlingly short career…

Deep Bloke, Shallow Book

· No Comments

Fred Reinfeld The Man Who Taught America Chess, with 282 Games Alex Dunne 194 pages | Softback | Bibliography, Indexes | $45.00 Jefferson: McFarland, 2018 Tim-Jake Gluckman This biography of Fred Reinfeld (1910-1964) covers the chess life of an outstanding producer (writing, editing, ghosting and…

Spassky’s Toughest Simul

· 1 Comment

The chess boom triggered by the 1972 Fischer–Spassky match enthused many talented youngsters, especially in Britain. Boris Spassky became an early casualty of the fallout from the ‘English chess explosion’ when he took on a schoolboy squad over 30 boards in 1979. The event was…

Buy all the back issues

· 1 Comment

“a must-read for everyone who doesn’t take chess too seriously; it’s especially a must-read for everyone who does take chess seriously!” ChessVibes “. . . very, very entertaining . . . some of the back issues were classics and I have some of them at home ….

Jothaeff Treisveizs

Very interesting and important for the "caissa lovers". Thanks for sharing!
→ Commenting on: New York 1927: Pen-portraits by George Currie

Sahar Khan

Soultanbieff is also incorrect in terming Sultan Khan a Hindu. He was a Muslim. Meanwhile Daniel King's book is rife…
→ Commenting on: Two Sultans

Jim

Great article silman, I'll agree igor was playing the roman
→ Commenting on: Caissa, Bacchus and Chess Publishing

tomis

here’s another by keith arkell: [Event "Simultaneous Display"] [Date "1979.01.20"] [White "Spassky, B."] [Black "Arkell, Keith"] [Result "1/2-1/2"] [ECO "B08"]…
→ Commenting on: Spassky’s Toughest Simul

Your shopping cart

Your cart is empty

Latest from Twitter

Follow @kingpined on twitter.

You are here Home Winter is Coming