The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

I am giving a simul on Saturday, at El Corte Inglés in Zaragoza. (actually this is a different El Corte Inglés) I've never really g...

The diagram below is taken from James Vigus' Play the Slav , Everyman, 2008, page 177. The position depicted arises after the following...

Endgames to the left of me, endgames to the right of me .... it was only the beginning of last month that I was lamenting the fact that a...

Number 12 in a continuing series . This one mainly by Richard Tillett. This is the second of two posts in which we share the results of o...

Just yesterday - and probably days after everybody else - I happened to come across the YouTube channel belonging to a chap calling himsel...

Click for this edition of Chiv Chat, featuring a fabulous chess analogy, ramblings about candidates matches, some great news from one of my ...

At last we know. How every Russian schoolboy knows his Rooks from his Bishops. They digest it... ...with... ...their tea. Warning: the packe...

The latest instalment of Every Picture Tells a Story , will appear next week. In the meantime, we interrupt our schedules to bring you news...

Win In The Opening! Opening mistakes and how to punish them , Neishtadt, Olms, 2003 The Spanish Exchange Variation: A Fischer favourite ...

Win In The Opening! Opening Mistakes And How To Punish Them , Neishtadt, Olms, 2003 Improve Your Chess Tactics: 700 Practical Lessons ...

Adam Raoof, at somebody else's tournament photograph by Brendan O'Gorman If you were to follow me home and hide in the bushes out...

A tasty morsel to start the week. As seen last month in a Parisian pâtisserie. Another one for LASTG * UR. Possibly. Touch a piece, and eat ...

Victorian artist Richard Dadd (1817-1886) was a Royal Academician by the age of 20. This is a well known photo of him some two decades later...

Have I really not done one of these since January 2010? Time to fix that. White to play White's a long way ahead in development, b...

[An early draft of today's post was published in error yesterday morning. Since then I've made a few minor changes to the main body...

Edgar Allan Poe, Murders in the Rue Morgue: I am not now writing a treatise, but simply prefacing a somewhat peculiar narrative by observat...

Black to play ... if, as a rule, a strong player analyzes an adjourned position more deeply and more accurately than player of a lower st...