The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Well, hasn't the last week and a half been fun? Ever since Dylan Loeb McClain lobbed his hand grenade into the FIDE Presidential race, ...

[Would you believe it? The world of chess riven by scandal and controversy and our old friend is nothing to do with it. Just goes to show th...

White to play Keene - Browne, BBC The Master Game Series 7 Exchange sacrifices are messy. That's kind of the point, I suppose...

Wikipedia informs us that the Australian current affairs programme Today Tonight is a less than entirely reliable source. We therefore u...

4 g2-g4 Menadue - JMGB, Penarth 2012 and Jaunooby - JMGB, Hampstead 2013 Analyse your games. Everybody knows that...

In the third round of the Wijk Aan Zee B group, on 13 January, Jobava-Zhao opened 1.d4 Nf6 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.Bf4 . What's this called? ...

Author's note: Hampstead was at Golders Green this weekend.  More on that later in the month. In the meantime, here's something ...

Although, We were the kings and queens of promise We were the victims of ourselves Maybe the children of a lesser God Betwee...

"If seven maids with seven mops Swept it for half a year. Do you suppose," the Walrus said, "That they could get it clear...

#25: Keene - Toth, Rome 1979 15 … Bg4 Tempting fate, inasmuch as White is presented with a typical exchange sac...

The Little Book Of Chess Plagiarism has been in Private Eye. Here's the opening paragraph. issue 1357, page 28 What a good...

You might remember this: Jonathan B blogged the cover back in October suggesting, in his headline, that it had apparently got something ...

Yesterday we saw that notes attributed on Chessgames.com to Ray... ...but in fact plagiarised from My Great Predecessors ( UPDATE 1...

Yesterday we were looking at the Chessgames.com notes to a Botvinnik-Euwe game from 1948 and discovering that while the site attributes* t...

Everybody knows Chessgames.com , right? It's a site with a lot of chess games. A lot of annotated chess games, come to that. For inst...

Today it ends. The second and final part of the solutions to the twelve rook and pawns of Christmas.

Today, the answers. The first six answers, anyway. Once Justin had left me in charge of the Christmas Quiz for 2013 it was alwa...

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