The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

This was last Saturday's study by Gurgenidze: White to play and win, the solution* found in the comments by Jonathan and the cook** - i...

Do you have a lucky opponent? Not just somebody you really look forward to playing or even somebody that you often beat but an opponent aga...

Martin Smith informs us that the Lewis Chessmen will be appearing on the Telly Box tonight - BBC4 at 7.30pm. Balls-up Clarification: The f...

Today the S&BC Blog's resident art expert Martin Smith returns for another post. Both words and pictures are his .... Chess is wa...

Say goodbye to your grade. It's downhill from here. Your chess will never be the same again. I can't say I wasn't warned of the ...

Study by Gurgenidze Without further computer assistance: (a) show how White wins ; (b) show why the study is cooked if the White rook on g5 ...

S&BCC's new champion Angus French may be very good at our favourite game but he is, by his own account, somewhat less handy wieldin...

White to play and win White's in trouble ... but if you've got a move you've got hope. It's Two for One day here at the S...

Chess coverage in the British mainstream media is a half-butchered corpse, and last week it had yet more flesh hacked from it last week:  Th...

Position after White's move 57. Without further computer assistance: (a) demonstrate with variations how Black draws ; (b) identify the ...

Last time we gave a sneak preview of the news that S&BCC President Angus French is the new club champion. It turns out that in securing...

Club Championship Flash Update: Angus wins!! Fittingly his was the last game to finish and he won the title by beating last year's champ...

Stop the press, rewrite the classics, cut out the cliches forever: because it turns out, not all rook endgames are drawn . Not only that, bu...

Perfect Your Chess , Volotikin and Grabinsky, Gambit 2007. [Bad book covers index ]

First off today, here are the scores on the doors at the halfway stage of the 2009 S&BCC Championship. 3 - Robin H 2.5 – Alan H 2 – T...

As you read this we will be three rounds into the club championship - to be concluded Tuesday 12th. As I write this, however, it's an ho...

Today in Britain it's the May Day Bank Holiday; a national holiday invented more or less so that we can all head off and watch the start...

Guest post by Martin Smith If he had been called an elephant in the room artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp would have been dead chuffed...

After a brace of erudite posts - from Morgan and Tom respectively - today I offer up something rather less weighty to lead us into the wee...

If I could go back in time and stop civilization at a certain moment - stop all human ingenuity, invention and innovation that came after - ...