The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

[Don't let today's bonus post stop you from reading Martin's excellent Broadmoor Chess Club versus The World from yesterday] ...

The last few posts in this series have been piecing together the story of chess in Broadmoor high-security psychiatric hospital since it o...

And if you like that - after the jump, two more examples of Argentinian cartoonist Quino 's chess-related work to enjoy.

1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.d4 cxd4 4.Nxd4 Nf6 5.Nc3 a6 6.Bg5 e6 7.f4 b5 When I was young, fresh and foolish, as opposed to old, tired and cynical...

Thirty years ago today, a golden age ended ... Knights of Merano WwwK Index The Times Saturday November 21, 1981 Page 1 Masterful Kar...

Grandmaster Versus Amateur , Aagaard and Shaw (eds), Quality Chess, 2011 [Bad book covers index ]

On the day of my fifth birthday, I ate all the chocolate fingers from my cake, and then redecorated the entire lounge with them just as my f...

or, A Modicum Of Respect I obtained a measure of revenge not only by eclipsing Tony in terms of chess performance but also by sleeping w...

White to play and seal a move JMGB v Drunken Knight, October 2011 I have Malc Pein to thank for this one. The commentary room of the Br...

This series is now following the fortunes of chess in Broadmoor Hospital which started out, in 1863, as an "Asylum for Criminal Lunati...

1.d4 d5 2.c4 c6 3.Nf3 Nf6 4.Nc3 e6 5.e3 Nbd7 6.Bd3 dxc4 7.Bxc4 b5 8.Be2 a6 9.O-O c5 10.d5 exd5 11.Nxd5 Bb7 12.Nxf6 Qxf6 13.a4 b4 14.e4 I...

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...