The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

As you may have noticed, the guest of honour at Sheffield's opening ceremony rather caught our attention: When will they ever learn? ; T...

Tuesday 9th August: Danny Baker tweets it like it is What were you doing last Friday around 5pm? As this was back when it was possible t...

Raymond Keene, beloved of this blog, has a bit of a reputation for throwing his weight around when he's not happy. Or so some say. To b...

[Author's note: It seems a little odd to be writing about chess this morning. After the tumultuous events of recent days - the riots I...

Yes, we've had it before , but it's 2:43 that interests us today T-shirts, eh? Who knew that seven words on one could generat...

photograph from CHESS vol 44 #811-812 You may have missed this, what with everything else going on, but congratulations are due to Mickey...

Big story breaking today . We'll start on it properly tomorrow. In the meantime, don't miss Martin's Chess in Art: Postscrip...

The starting point for this Postscript comes from fellow blogger Tom Chivers. A month or so ago he kindly forwarded to me an exquisitely pa...

The following email was sent to New in Chess on 20 June. It does not appear in the latest issue, 2011#5. Dear New in Chess The Isle of M...

It was "a big day" for the British Championships, our old friend Raymond Keene tweeted on Wednesday morning, and he was ...

Richard Dadd (1817-1886), artist and eccentric chesser, did some strange things in his 69 years, as this series has recounted. He painted pr...