Chess is barely visible in mainstream media. Chessplayers have only themselves to blame, argues Justin Horton I have a foreign name. Not foreign to me, of course, nor to most people reading. But it is foreign in the country where I live. Foreign in origin…
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Kingpin has had sight of an e-mail message addressed earlier this week to UK chess magazine and website editors. Presumably it refers to the Streatham & Brixton Chess blog.
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Tony Buzan (of mind maps/memory fame) is the subject of an ‘official biography’ by Raymond Keene. Don Cherry probes Buzan on a couple of Keene’s claims about himself in the book. Don: Keene writes that he was ‘twice the winner of the Oscar for world’s…
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UK: £7.00 Europe: £9.00 RoW: £11.00 ‘Publication of the British magazine Kingpin is always an eagerly-awaited event. Issue 40 has just appeared and contains not only levity but also some deadly serious investigative journalism. Not to be missed.’ – Chess Notes Read a review…
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UK: £7.00 Europe: £9.00 RoW: £11.00 The Kingpin Questionnaire Peter Svidler Krusty the Clown Wins the Australian Championship Chris Depasquale Gary Lane’s Agony Column What’s in a Grade? Justin Horton Losing My Way to the GM Title Jonathan Rowson Do Not Adjust Your…
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£5.00 Europe: £7.00 RoW: £9.00 The Kingpin Questionnaire GM Patrick Wolff Forum Edward Winter Gary’s Agony Column IM Gary Lane Sexy Chess Openings FM Graham Burgess Computer Chess Rob van Gompel I Did It My Way! IM Nigel Davies The Closed…
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UK: £5.00 Europe: £7.00 RoW: £9.00 The Player’s Player GM Ray Keene, IM Keith Arkell, IM Malcolm Pein Attacking with the Closed Sicilian IM Andrew Martin Letters GM Tony Miles, Ida Eddis Foster Positional Chess IM Michael Basman Bela Perenyi 1953 – 1988 IM…
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UK: £5.00 Europe: £7.00 RoW: £9.00 The Players’ Player GM Jim Plaskett, IM Paul Littlewood Letters Ray Keene replies Kingpin’s Page 7 Fellas Hungarian Rhapsody IM Tibor Karolyi ‘New Lady Here Tonight’ Faye Ainscow The Itinerant Master IM Malcolm Pein Bogo-A-Go-Go GM Adrian Mikhalchishin…
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In his blog on 7 March 2012 (‘Termitewatch’) Steve Giddins moaned about people . . . ‘. . . clambering repeatedly on their high horses over allegations that Ray Keene may or may not have purloined the odd bit of analysis of the Lisitsin Gambit.’…
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From Grandmaster Tony Miles Sir, I was stunned to read your recent issues casting doubt on the legendary and overwhelming generosity of International Grandmaster Raymond Keene, OBE. I cannot allow such malicious rubbish to go unanswered. No doubt some readers will be quite surprised to…
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