The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

When Corrie's family returns to Uig Bay on the Isle of Lewis for yet another miserable summer holiday, he has no idea of the incredible ...

Articles about chess were published on the leader page ... Click for a closer look (click again when you get there for a very close look) T...

Faro Perella - Horton, individual championship of Huesca province 2010, round nine, board one. Position after 27...Qc5-c3 . White played 28....

Now that the words are out they sound stupid, and they are stupid. He is being manoeuvred into saying stupid things. But he should have exp...

¡A Jugar Ya 1! , García Palermo and De Anna, La Casa Del Ajedrez, 2003 ¡A Jugar Ya 2! , García Palermo and De Anna, La Casa Del Ajedrez, 200...

... we got married The Times 8th September 1975 Click for a closer look (Click again when you get there for a very close look) I've o...

Horton-Peréz Puyal, individual championship of Huesca province 2010, eighth and penultimate round, board two. Position after White's thi...

There was a funny story published on the Ginger GM website a week or so ago. Simon Williams related how he had been contacted by a chess ...

What has got into New In Chess of late? In their issue 2010#5, as already discussed here , they thought it would be a good idea to run a pie...

Once upon a time before facebook , people actually used blogs to share personal stuff. And today those Web 1.0 days are back for one day on...

Making house calls or meeting people in public places is how Ray Gordon makes his living. He’s not a doctor. He’s not a prostitute. Ray Gord...

Blog 2 in a series of collaborative posts. This one by Martin Smith, with comment by Richard Tillett. This is the second episode of our s...

Photo on a Mantel piece "How could you have known? I'm not reliably where I shouldn't be. Are you moving that pawn, or just...

Here's a position for you to sweat over, from a variation that could easily have arisen in a recent game of mine. It's black to play...

We had a system for choosing a challenger (and The Special One tried to circumvent it) Magnus "I'm bigger than the game" Carls...

He and Rafe read a book about chess. It is a book printed before they were born, but it has pictures. They frown over them, perfecting their...