Why Life Does Not Imitate Chess King: How bloodily the sun begins to peer Above yon bosky hill! The day looks pale …
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North of the Border The Prawn¹ fell madly in love with the Cat And the Cat with the Prawn was smitten And so they got married and soon begat A lovely fluffy Pritten But no one was there to tell them so As they spoiled it…
Read MoreWhenever the popular press presumes to write with authority about chess, the self-appointed custodians of the game (that’s us) get sniffy, usually with good reason. When chess hits the headlines it tends to trigger a reflex in newspapers. They (tabloids especially) reach for their trusty…
Read MoreSchmidt – Rossolimo Heidelberg, 1949 Black to play This game is annotated in Victor Kahn’s La Conduite de la Partie d’Echecs, an attractive little book brimming with instructive examples of attacking chess. Too bad that it’s in French and long out of print. One of the great chess…
Read More‘Another twenty years of Ilyumzhinov’ – Mikhail Golubev talks to Sarah Hurst Mikhail Golubev became a grandmaster in 1996, the year he won the Ukrainian Championship. He has won or shared first prize in 17 international tournaments and has assisted former world champions Anatoly…
Read MoreAntony Mann Peter Leko. Ian Rogers. Luke McShane. Raymond Keene. Darryl Johansen. John Nunn. I don’t like to name-drop, but these are just some of the stars of world chess that I’ve seen reasonably close-up during my years as a chess player. Heady times,…
Read MoreSegel – Fox Antwerp, 1900 Black to play 23…Qxg3+! 24 Kxg3 Rg8+ 25 Kh4 Ng6+ 26 Kh5 Nf4+ 27 Kxh6 Ne6+ 28 Kh5 28…Rh8 mate The winner of this game, Albert Whiting Fox (1881-1964), is one of the forgotten masters…
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