The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

I still remember the first time I went to London, as a lad, to see a band: it was at the old Hammersmith Odeon. I can still remember the sea...

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. . . the chess movie we've all been waiting for.  Mate: Two former world chess champions battle wits to determine the greatest champio...

After a week away to ponder the state of chess journalism, today sees the completion of my review of Chess Pub , the chess theory website. ...

Blog 5 in a series of collaborative posts. This one by Martin Smith, with comments by Richard Tillett. In our last episode Richard didn’t...

Last month ESPN published an extraordinary article about the Ugandan teenager Phiona Mutesi, who played in the Khanty-Mansiysk Olympiad. It ...

Remember the bit of interweb funny on the right, featured here a year and a half ago? Turns out failblog from whence that came is part of ...

Yesterday's post on the state of chess journalism over the last few decades prompted a reader to respond questioning my feeling that th...

... we kept schtum . In which, initial appearances to the contrary not withstanding, the author ponders the state of chess journalism.  Re...

Georgieva-Lada, Gibraltar 2011, round one. Position after 48.Qb8-e5+ , kindly forwarded to us by Jack Rudd. A panic job, this one: if we go ...

A waiter, again unbidden, brought the chessboard and the current issue of The Times , with the page turned down at the chess problem. Then, ...

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 f5 3.Nxe5 Nc6 Mark Twain seems to have been in the news quite a lot lately, which is not bad going for a dead man. With all...