The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Suddenly I had a feeling he knew I was watching. Or, worse, that he hoped I was. Along with it came another feeling which made me slightl...

#8: The Dutch Defence If you play the Dutch you have to accept the element of risk. Some years ago I heard a young player moaning to Bri...

#7: Shliperman - Yermolinsky, Philadelphia 1997 4 Nbd2 This is probably the best move in the position if you are of equal strength to y...

'[Murray] and Federer are in love with the art of the rally. They adore long, subtle, clever points, prolonged discussion, the searchin...

White to play and mate in two Here's a puzzle for you this weekend: I came across it some weeks ago when somebody, not a regular pl...

1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 d5 The Marshall Attack. Very big deal in English chess in the 199...

On Saturday, Middlesex won the English County Championship for the 29th time. Here's Streatham club member Andrew Stone posing with the...

I had a particularly chessy summer in 2011. The Czech Open led into Dublin , but it was the Big Slick IM Norm event that kicked it all off...

Tempo, George, Tempo

The game is over and it's Kirsan, unfortunately, who won . I don't propose to drone on about the case again. I've said wh...

The final stage of the National Schools Championships takes place tomorrow and Friday . Takes me back. My school used to play in it. I we...

I'm not sure if it was because I played chess, but the Dark Knight terrified me as a child. Does anyone else remember the show ?...

A sudden swift hiss fell from the windows above him and he knew that the electric lamps had been switched on in the readers' room. He ...

Don't expect much actual chess in this series. It's intended as quite a sweeping look at the reasons why players of differing sta...

Max Maven This is an area that I have explored in a number of different ways over the years, but rarely have I ever done a full blown s...

It's nine months and more since I last looked at a chessboard. A real one, that is, tangible, three-dimensional, with pieces on it, in ...

Literature is the knowledge of how it is to be a person other than yourself, made compelling through story-telling and the artistry of the w...

This is bits and pieces, really. Like my colleague Jonathan last week , I was thinking of writing about the barring of arbiters from unfavou...