The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

[ JMGB writes: Don't let the fact that the Candidates' has served up another lovely dollop of rook endgames let you miss Martin...

Last week, in episode 9 , we discovered that Anthony Rosenbaum, the painter of the 1874-1880 picture of Chess Players , hailing original...

There's been chessboxing and we missed it? Damn. Must have been something else going on to distract us. Fortunately not everybody ov...

And now, it's time for the first in a new series. No, not that. Lyrics. Lyrics, lyrics, lyrics. Won't this be fun? ...

I was out last night: a getting-on-for three hour round trip to Golden Lane to play out a 90-minute draw in the London League. Such are the...

Grischuk - Radjabov, London Candidates' Tournament (5) 2013 50 ... Rxc5, 51 Rxb4 d4 and that's your lot One move. One poxy mo...

This is the first of two more episodes continuing our investigation into Anthony Rosenbaum’s 1874-1880 painting depicting an assembly of Vi...

There was a YouGov poll which showed that about 12% of British adults play chess reasonably regularly, more than a few times a year So sai...

I'm writing this column with a heavy heart. I know that chess coverage in the  British  mainstream media is rare and should be welcomed...

Black to play (draw agreed) Kasimdzhanov-Topalov, San Luis 2005 So here we are at the first rest day. Already just that little bit close...