The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Here's an oddity I came across after reading about the Foxwoods Open in the latest New In Chess . The tournament was won by Darmen Sadva...

I, like many chess players, am somewhat prickly when it comes to the use of chess analogies, metaphors, similes, and more or less any phrase...

Guest post by Martin Smith This Postscript steps out from Chess in Art IV "Die Schachpartie", Max Oppenhiemer's vigorous and ...

Anand - Ivanchuck, London 1994 Black to play On Wednesday we left Anand and Ivanchuck in the final of the London leg of the PCA Speed Chess...

Anand - Ivanchuck, London 1994 Black to play Today, following on from WHN? VIII , we return once again to the PCA Speed Chess Grand Prix fro...

Via a Ninja , news of why Nobel Prize winning physicist Richard Feynman believes that the project of science is analogous to watching the go...

Guest post by Martin Smith Just what is it that makes today’s chess sets so different, so appealing? Not a lot. They all look the same. So v...

It was over almost before it began but it was no less mysterious for that. Two weeks on from the Nisipeanu-Kamsky encounter at Bazna I'...

It's just not fair , apparently. Week before last we ran a piece about chessboxing, sceptical of both the activity and the media covera...

You can be pretty sure that when one of my posts does nothing more than copies the content of somebody else's, I've either found som...

Guest post by Martin Smith Charles Bargue's 1882 game on a park bench in Chess in Art VI was a reminder what a delicious pleasure it is...

There's always been something of the pissing contest about chess, especially since they brought in ratings and we had an actual set of f...

White to play and win? Following on from last week , just a king and a queen for each side today. So what's going on? PS:- Today's p...

I'm a long-time complainer about the lack of evening chess events in London over the summer. And what have I done about it? Nothing, tha...

Watch while the queen In one false move Turns herself into a pawn Sleepy and shaken And watching while the blurry night Turns into a very cl...

If you want to get chess into the news, get into a fight . It's Man Bites Dog as applied to chess: news defined not as what happens ,...

Smirin - Anand, Moscow 1994 White to play Chess is such a simple game. King and three pawns versus king and two. How difficult can it be?

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers," said Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, in 1943. Ah, there's nothing ...