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If this bank holiday Monday you find yourself idly googling the phrase "the sweaty glamour of disco", you'll soon find out wha...

[We are fortunate to be able to present to you a guest post by the influential monk, thinker and chess guru, the great honoured Zen chess ma...

[Today we have the third and final installment of our interview with Ginger GM Simon Williams. Parts I and II were published on Monday an...

[Williams Week continues here at the S&BC Blog with Part II of our interview with the Ginger GM. In Part I on Monday Simon spoke about...

The Ginger GM Six months ago the S&BC Blog published an interview with Grandmaster Keith Arkell (Part I , II , III ). It seemed to go d...

You'd guess this one had something to do with the clock: you're Evgeny Bareev, you're playing Black against Karpov, he has a sli...

Last Tuesday Alan Hayward became the 2010 Streatham & Brixton Chess Club Champion following up on his victory in January's mid-sea...

Here's a new reason why girls are bad at chess: coaches aren't hard enough on them. As crack coach Elizabeth Vicary explains , '...

6.0 – Alan H 4.5 – Tom C, James M 4.0 – Morgan D 3.5 – Robin H, Chris M, David V 3.0 – Jan K, Hector H, Gary S 2.5 – Barry B 2.0 – Ash K...

...how long should World Championship matches be? asked T.C. on Monday. Turns out it only needed four minutes to separate Anand and Topalo...

Thanks to Anand and Topalov for the very nice match Alexandra Kosteniuk on ChessBomb/Chessdom Well that's putting it somewhat mild...

Or rather, how long should World Championship matches be? More than twelve games? Ok. Sixteen ok, but not fourteen? Um, why? Back to twenty ...

Before we start some announcements ... First, the scores on the doors at the halfway stage of the 2010 Streatham & Brixton Chess Club Ch...

Will things start to get ugly in Sofia if Anand pulls ahead of Topalov? Over on the EC Forum that was what one Arshad Ali, posting after ga...

Never heard of this bloke before, probably won't ever hear of him again ... but any candidate who can set up a chess board the right way...

Of the many delights to be discovered in spectating the World Championship, being constantly reminded how bad I am at chess is possibly the ...

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[ JB's Note: Today I have another article that I originally wrote at the start of the year but which never got published. As on Wednes...