The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

Black to play Karpov - Andersson, Milan 1975 I could stay with Secrets of Modern Chess Strategy for the rest of the year probabl...

We're taking a break from our Brixton Byways this weekend, but if you're at a loose end on Sunday morning you might like to take a ...

I'm not proposing to write much about the FIDE Presidential election - just thinking about it brings on a wave of nausea - but there wer...

Scandal in Afghan chess! A chess federation's president replaced because he supported the wrong side in FIDE politics! Whoever ...

I’m taking a temporary break from the Chess and dementia posts this week, to announce that Project Chess 180 is very much Game On.

White to play Seirawan - Kozul, Wijk aan Zee 1991 Yasser’s got something truly absurd for us today. Swap queens, 'lose' t...

They Might or they Might Not: but hopefully all will be revealed as we continue to lay bare Brixton Chess Club's early history. Last ti...

Reading yesterday's post , our more attentive readers will surely have spotted that in one place - if perhaps only one - Ray's notes...

If you've ever strolled through Ray's stash of chessgames.com annotations you may have enjoyed his pasting of Karl Janetschek at t...

... consider Tom Cruise’s genuinely terrifying sense of intellectual rectitude. 'You don’t know the history of psychiatry. I do ... You...

Black to play Topalov - Kramnik, Norway 2014 When’s not a good time to play an exchange sacrifice that doesn’t work out? When...

Following on from yesterday's post , Nette Robinson's event later this month is advertised on the website of the English Chess Fede...

We've talked about Nette Robinson's chess art before on the blog , and now there's a bit more to say in view of her article in t...

As regular and recent readers of this blog will know, two particular interests of ours are plagiarism and dodgy chess/dementia research . ...

Chess and dementia: a summary of where we’re at - or where chessers as a community should be at - courtesy of Joseph T. Coyle, M.D . ......

I knew that the Journal of Chess Research was coming. I’m indebted to EJH for the knowledge that one of things that Polgie’s magazine is i...

Black to play Panov - Simagin, Moscow 1943 Time to see if any of those chess books that I’ve acquired over the years can help...

Fast forward to 1.43 if your Norwegian is no better than mine. [Nigel Short index ] [ Via ]

We started our promenade along the pathways of Brixton chess club history with the 1870s, here and here ; then spent two more episodes expl...

We've been talking a lot about chess and research recently. So on the face of it there's every reason to welcome the appearance o...