The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Tilburg, Lucerne, Paris, Munich ; Everybody Talk About ... the World Chess Championship Image appears here thanks to the efforts of the ...

Last summer I was having Spanish conversation classes round the house of a friend, Toni, who lives in my village. He's got a daughter, o...

Last week I left you with this teaser . Appropriately enough, there was a split in opinion. So let's go through what actually happened. ...

The Chess Greats Of The World: Paul Morphy , Lovas, Caissa, 2006 [Bad book covers index ]

I decided that I didn't have a particularly conclusive case without a look at the relevant BCF accounts. After all, where exactly had t...

February is such a smaller month than the rest, already it's time to start planning what, er, chess talks you'll be attending in Ma...

Chin - Makepeace, 4NCL 2012 White has just played 34. Qxe7 and has seven minutes to make the time control at move 40. Plenty of time, of c...

Enough with the rumours . I dare say that we'll be back with more on that sort of thing soon enough, but it's the weekend and I fee...

Topical 'Short wins Gibraltar' interlude Nigel Short Index

Rumours ; Rumours II Some questions for Ray Keene , and his replies:- @Berlin_Endgame 18:43 Monday 31st January 2012 Ray, what's...

Some questions for the English Chess Federation:- Q. Is it true that Ray Keene played a significant role in securing the funds that p...

[Don't allow today's bonus post let you miss PJM's You Should Date a Chess Player from yesterday.] @Times_Chess 23:47 Monda...

Date a chess player. Find them in The Plough on Museum Street on a Monday evening. Find them in The Wargrave Arms, doing their best not to ...

Last Saturday's " Other Talent " post looked at the paintings and photography of Bill Hook, who played chess with the best of ...

Very strong player in their time. History of disputes with the national chess federation. Undoubted ability in the popularisation of chess. ...

The name of one chess grandmaster appears in the pages of John Berger's Ways of Seeing (London: Penguin, 1972), the book based on the t...

YES. I recently found myself in a conversation about the nature of published game analysis, particularly how it can become an outlet for t...

You may have read this book already, published in 2008 by NiC, or one of its many enthusiastic reviews in the chess press. It’s the memoir o...

How time flies. That's not the freshest of observations, I grant you. Still, it hardly seems a moment since T.C. suggested starting a...

It was an enjoyable afternoon, albeit a confusing one at times for my young friend. "Can't I do that?" Zac asked at one poin...