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Somebody has offended CJ de Mooi, and he's not going to give us any more of his money. Or so he says, in his 31 October message to the ...

White to play JMGB v Drunken Knight, October 2011 I'd been aiming to reach this position for a couple of moves. When I got here I pl...

This series began with a chess painting by Richard Dadd who was confined, eventually to Broadmoor, after he murdered his father in 1843. I...

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We have a bonus post for you today, but I wouldn't want you to miss Morgan's Today in Chessminster which went up yesterday. Chess ...

1. In which James Myles Hogge, Liberal Chief Whip and MP for Edinburgh East, worries that a Capablanca simul in the Commons will distract at...

Knights on the rim are Morgan's Knights on the rim ... you know the rest. Grim. Or dim. Grim and dim. Well not for my friend ...

This was all slightly disappointing, from a man who once would willingly have grabbed what sleep he could on a filthy mattress in the back ...

Back to Basics: Strategy , Beim, Russell Enterprises, 2011 [Bad book covers index ]

The Nigel Short simul tour comes to an end in Gatwick tomorrow afternoon. It's obviously been a hugely popular event - 177 games pla...

Wed Oct 19, 2011 7:58pm Note to Jonathan Bryant: My name is Nigel Short and not Nosher. I don't call you f**k Face but, if I did, I...

Blog 20. We finish with a joint effort by Martin Smith and Richard Tillett. It is a year (almost to the day) since our first Every Pict...

Zuccotti Park, New York City, Friday 15 October [With thanks to bat020 on the spot] [ Occupy Wall Street ]

Philidor 1777 I met up with Angus at I Love Coffee on Streatham High Road again last Friday afternoon. It’s become a bit of a regular f...

[Back to a spot of chess today. Normal service will be resumed in due course, no doubt - JMGB] Montag's hands picked up the Bible. He...

Back at the beginning of September we added Robert Coombes to the list of noteworthy Broadmoor chessers: Richard Dadd, Edward Oxford, and R...

[As mentioned in the comments box on Tuesday , I was interested to read the claim in Tim Woolgar's statement as candidate for the post ...

It's the English Chess Federation AGM on Saturday. It seems that they've got themselves a pretty full agenda , but in the event tha...