The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Our Friend Jack Rudd - Back When We Were Beautiful ; Jack’s Sacs - returns to write another post for us today.  Welcome back Jack.   ...

This week I’m taking a break from exchange sacking  and celebrating an anniversary instead. It was three years ago yesterday that I...

The first episode of this fortnightly history of Streatham and Brixton Chess Clubs explained that our earliest antecedent was the Endeavour...

There's something about Times editorials that gets on my wick. Here's a recent example. Probably not. Still, it's practic...

Black to play Exchange sac-wise, I’ve been in a bit of a slough of despond recently. A couple of days after last week’s post BORP? X...

with International Master Colin Crouch (renowned author of many Everyman books). I Gurevich v C Crouch, Hastings 1992/3 You morons ar...

Exchanges sacs will return on Wednesday. In the meantime, here’s something that could help you kill a few hours should you find yourse...

Richard Tillett reports. Last Sunday was the day of the Streatham Library Rapidplay, the first such event that Streatham & Brixton Che...

Tsk. Too late! We missed the show . Still, don't miss the video !

Ask and ye shall receive. Towards the end of February, I asked Silvio Danailov about Andrew Paulson's allegation that Danailov had sp...

Black to play Rizvi - JMGB, Surrey League 2010 Well that’s 13 posts in already . 25% of the way through the project is perhaps ...

Eighteen months or so ago we strolled around Streatham, Brixton and thereabouts  plotting its chess history. Now we return to the task in th...

Meanwhile, back at chess politics, poisonous though they be - what is the truth about Silvio Danailov and the prison term he's alleged ...

Ain't it hard when you discover that He really wasn't where it's at Let us suppose, for an optimistic moment, that we take an...

It's been, what, just a couple of months since the coup against Andrew Paulson at the English Chess Federation and I don't suppose ...

White to play Kramnik - Illescas, Linares 1994 I’m carrying on with a couple of recent themes today: rook takes piece on bishop th...

Adam Cassidy is twenty-six and a low level employee at a high-tech corporation who hates his job .... or so it says here . .....

So 2013 from Alex Baburin’s excellent  Chess Today

Streatham and Brixton Chessers were out in force last Saturday setting out their stall at the gala re-opening of Streatham Library/Community...

Times chess column March 20 You might get the impression from the above that when it hasn't been a free day, the Times chess column...