The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

A couple of weeks ago I was worried that I was running out of decent chess videos to use on Sundays. Fortunately, a rummage down the back o...

Quiz question: Which British chessplayer once organised an expedition to Bermuda to try and film the legendary and entirely non-existent gia...

Is chess a sport? That's a question I've wavered on indefinitely all my life, but an incident last Thursday night after my London Le...

When I moved to London at the start of 2002 my first digs were in Acton. I left there after six months and moved to Brixton. This led me to ...

[Our pedagogical series in which we look at a portion of a game I played the previous weekend in which some obvious tactic is overlooked. Re...

... and mate in one * Alternatively, you may prefer our effort from last year . * From: Raymond Smullyan's The Chess Mysteries of She...

Welcome again to our fortnightly round-up of club news. Starting off this week with... The Surrey League ... which for Streatham & Brixt...

The 31st King's Head Rapidplay is being held next Saturday, 5th April, over in Porchester Road, Bayswater. Kick-off is at 11am. The tota...

[Top picture from Chesshistory.com]

Regular visitors to the S&BCC blog may recall that about six months ago we blogged a story about The Bitsevsky Maniac - a chessplaying ...

Our two recent posts on King Hunts reminded me of a remarkable game I had stored away in my memory as The Immortal Draw - a romantic effo...

Yesterday Simon Ings had an article published in The Guardian that claimed, amongst other things, that "the human tendency to anthropo...

Tim Krabbé, the Dutch chessplayer and novelist, has on his website a feature The Ultimate Blunder , in which he has collected 35 different e...

We're returning to Nunn and Cozens' The King Hunt today and another example of a king chop from a player not using the opening that...

I've been having a nose through my bank of chess related video clips and, frankly, they're all a bit rubbish. Well all except this o...

VV Osnos, Debyut Reti , Fizkultura y Sport, 1990. Page 244. [The first in an occasional series]

Are you bored stuffing your face with chocolate eggs yet? If you want a break between binges try working out this mating puzzle. It's ta...

I played my first game in the 4NCL last weekend. For the time honoured reason that they were a player short and I was available at short not...

After his victory in Gibraltar the charming Mr Nakamura was in the news again alleging that another grandmaster (Rauf Mamedov) had delibera...

Dozy of me: I first saw this position a few weeks ago but it didn't occur to me until reading it again in New In Chess that it was a co...