The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

I’ve done Korchnoi a disservice and it’s time to rectify matters. Last week I described Viktor’s astonishing blunder in game 13 of the 1977...

I am not big into names. It doesn't really matter to me whether 7...Bf5 versus the fianchetto King's Indian Defence is called the Le...

Art, craft, and design: these teasing, shape-shifting categories were seen in Chess in Art XI in the industrial scale marquetry of Alan Boi...

Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, interviewing Garry Kasparov in the latest New In Chess : At a certain point I saw you almost visibly enjoying this. ...

… we knew how to blunder Last week I wrote of the golden age for chess that grew out of the Fischer/Korchnoi challenges for the World Champ...

Mikhail Tal describes meeting Bobby Fischer at the Varna Olympiad, 1962 * :- I asked him all sorts of questions, and in conclusion, as we we...

Chess Training Pocket Book , Alburt, Chess Information and Research Center, 2000 [Bad book covers index ]

Here’s something you won’t hear very often:- The Seventies was a golden age It sounds unlikely I know but it's true, as far as our favou...

[Our pedagogical series in which we look at a portion of a game I played recently in which some obvious tactic was overlooked. Readers are i...

Long-term readers may well remember that a couple of years ago, I solved the problem of short draws in chess . And now today, I'm going ...

Chess Rules of Thumb , Alburt and Lawrence, Chess Information and Research Center, 2003 [Bad book covers index ]

A Blue or Red Pill? means there's a choice to be made ... and today's decision is not just about whether to play a particular openi...

Back in the summer we covered the 2009 British Championship quite extensively Howell wins ; The rook endings computers don't see ; Cor...

Ray Keene, whatever else he may be, is, by common consent, a charming man. The same is not true of his sidekick: or, to be more accurate, on...

Chess in Art XIII featured the only sculpture in the series: Max Ernst's "The King playing with his Queen" of 1944. Allusions...