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I am annoyed. Not very long ago I saw a good quote about chess, which I intended to use in this piece and which I shall paraphrase. I shall ...

Sad to admit but I neglected my chess blogging duties yesterday afternoon when instead of writing today's post I chose instead to fill m...

Was chess news the first thing on your mind today, as you revved up your interweb for some recreational reading? Or was it, perhaps, that ...

That is today's question. Black to play What do you think of this position? S&BCC blog readers with elephantine memories - RDK scor...

...this is a psychological error common to chessplayers of all ranks from beginner to grandmaster: to lose one's objectivity is almost a...

Black to play and win A few days ago I stumbled across The Grass Arena in the LSE library. Our older readers may recall John Healy's ac...

From this week's Private Eye : Waddling, bow-tied Raymond Keene, chess correspondent of the Times and the Spectator, has long been kno...

Apologies for the delay in producing the guide to Chess in Art resources promised at the end of the series last Saturday. Unfortunately the...

FIDE International Organiser & Arbiter Adam Raoof emails: I am compiling a list of chess venues in London - not just chess clubs, which...

[original photo: Chessvibes ] I had to rearrange their faces And give them all another name I've lost a lot of games of chess to a lot o...

Apologies to our American readers but I'm going to be talking about cricket for a bit. I say cricket but I mean "cricket" rea...

Last week we offered you Nerd Points if you could correctly identify the game being played out  in one of our featured  chess videos , whil...

Forget Bonn, forget Kramnik, forget Anand, forget all that exciting important stuff - you can read about it anywhere. But it's only here...

Normal, regular, adjusted human beings - and in particular those with tummies easily turned - may well reply that an exhibition of skinned c...

The Chess Players Thomas Eakins (1876) [Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York] The Chess Players Raffaello Sorbi (1886) [private collection] ...

Game Seven of the Anand-Kramnik match - Vlad's second Black in a row the poor bugger - saw the Russian ditching the Nimzo-Indian and tu...

Kramnik-Anand, game three: position after 15.Bxb5 Or, if I put it another way: Kramnik-Anand, game three: position before 15...Bd6. The same...

Love me two times I'm going away Always look a gift horse in the mouth before you mouth off about it: that's my advice, mostly to my...

You've seen a lot of chess videos here at S&BCC over the years. But I reckon this one beats them all: Especially with the music pla...

Kramnik's screwed right? He's not coming back from this is he? It's not so much the fact that he's now two points down in ...