The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Emi Hasegawa v Fong Mi Yen, Women's Olympiad, round two . Position after 15...Qe7-h4 . It's board three in the Japan v Malaysia mat...

I'm back with another instalment already. Those lazy journalists, going for a cheap pun... I'd never do that . From yesterday...

I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth. And it shall come to pass, when I bring...

Strolls 1 , 2 and 3 started this series by wandering around Streatham where we mapped the chess history of our neighbourhood following cl...

Cycling is big in Astana, as witness the professional racing team bearing the same name that takes part in the Tour de France and other big...

This book currently adorns my bathroom. This man, Ali Nihat Yazici, hasn't read it. Following a whole heap of cont...

From Wednesday's Guardian : "Fluctuating exchange rates are a game of chess that any company will find difficult to control...

We started this Streatham Stroll In The Country last week (there were three Strolls before that: 1 , 2 and 3 ). N ow it is Streatham Strol...

The story links an unlikely cast of historical characters, from Napoleon, Beethoven and Poe to the pioneers of the computer age, and pr...

"The Imagery of Chess Revisited" recovers a celebrated and extraordinary moment in art history: the 1944-45 exhibition "Th...

... to do with chess Index

When we play the ancient and noble game of chess, we grapple with ideas about honesty, deceitfulness, bravery, fear, aggression, beaut...

In Vienna in 1770 Baron Wolfgang von Kempelen unveils his astonishing invention: the Mechanical Turk, an unbeatable chess-playing mach...

Streatham Strolls 1 , 2 and 3 explored the chess history of our South London neighbourhood, and it was Tim Harding’s Eminent Victorian Che...