The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Number 23 in a never-ending story: this one by Martin Smith with borrowings from, and comment by, Richard Tillett. Followers of our EPTA...

Dear Magnus is reproduced here with the permission of author/artist  Fanou Lefebvre ...

- - - - - Private Eye, issue 1354, page 8. Buy it to read the rest! Or, if you've arrived at the blog after seeing the above in ...

TEN-IN-A-ROW RAY Last week , we were able, due to the assistance of our readers, to demonstrate that Ray's Times column for Monday 3 ...

Black to play No more rook and pawn action from Chennai to report. Nothing going on for me at Hampstead  this weekend either. Why d...

We had a lot of fun last weekend with Susan Polgar's made-up figure of a billion people watching the chess. On Friday the FIDE match si...

I was an impossible case No-one ever could reach me But I think I can see in your face There's a lot you can teach me ...

People everywhere A sense of expectation hanging in the air Giving out a spark Across the room your eyes are glowing in the dar...

Been a busy few days for popular chess bullshitter Susan Polgar, who only last weekend was making quite remarkable predictions about the li...

This week , in the parallel universe where plagiarism matters. Back in the chess universe - or for that matter the Times and Spectator unive...

S&BC Blog 'til I die So what's winning the World Championship? The Berlin Defence and rook endings , that's what. C...

Read GQ and lower your IQ, as the old gag goes. The nonsense above comes from a piece written for GQ by one Jason Henderson, who is a...

Get over your disappointment that Anand bottled the Berlin Ending this morning. Here's the entertainment from games four and five. ...

It's that time of year again. Readers may recall last November's post on the World Peace and Prosperity Foundation, a scam run...

That was last week , in a parallel universe where plagiarism matters. In the chess universe last week, we covered Ray's column from 6 ...