The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

He's also the first European to hold the world title since the 1930s. Thus spake Dominic Lawson, of Magnus Carlsen, when introducing ...

In summary: We object to the claim that brain games offer consumers a scientifically grounded avenue to reduce or reverse cognitive declin...

White to play Karpov - Kasparov, World Championship Match 1990 (Lyon) Game 13 The same World Championship match as last week’s...

We had a first look at the two volumes of the Surrey County Chess Association Match Books, 1884-1967, in  Preface ,  the opening episode   i...

[Dr Jana Bellin] is willing to prepare a considered comment on the interesting matter of chess and seniors, people with Alzheimer's an...

I happened to be discussing the famous Botvinnik-Fischer game with some friends when Angus French pointed out an interesting anomaly at...

White to play Kasparov - Karpov World Championship Game 4, New York 1990 Last Friday’s post from EJH marked the 43rd anniversar...

An exhibition " What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me " has just opened, in which today's "conceptual" artists, reflect, in ...

The sixth game of Petrosian's 1971 match with Fischer, the Candidates' Final, took place on the seventeenth of October. As Petr...

Private Eye 1377, 17 October 2014, page 6. [" Plagiarism is theft and I'd lose my job if I did it ."] [Thanks to ...

White to play P. Barasi v JMGB, Surrey League 14.10.2014 My game from last night. Move six. I was really hoping White was going t...

White to play JMGB v C. Kinsman, Perth Open (6) 31.1.1993 The subject of my Australian Chess Federation rating came up in comments...

Our various series on the chess history of our locality - here in this corner of south-west London - are getting more and more confused. Fir...

Well, tomorrow some time Ray Keene's friend will be elected President of the English Chess Federation, not that "elected" is ...

Talking about Andy Costello nearly going to prison, as I was yesterday , there was some action on the jail front this summer, but it was Ne...

There's another chessboxing event in London this Saturday. You can look up the details yourselves - you won't miss much if you don...

Black to play Caruana - Gelfand, Baku Grand Prix 03.10.2014 "Interesting" - the website formally known as Chess Vibes . ...

What's Ray writing about in the Spectator these days? Let's have a look at yesterday’s issue... ...and have a closer look a...

EDIT 5 October: thanks to our correspondent who correctly identifies the dinner as the Second Integration Dinner with Deputy Prime Minist...

Dirk Jan ten Geuzendam, New in Chess, 2014#6, page 14 You know, if I were a leading chess journalist and I had spent several days in a ...