The Streatham & Brixton Chess Blog

So now the Carlsen v Candidates-winner world championship match has been set up , how many people are going to watch it? 605 million , per...

Writing about the Accelerated Dragon the other day jogged my memory where my one-time favourite Sicilian, the Scheveningen, was concerned. ...

I often remark that after you reach the age of forty, it becomes impossible to distinguish satire from reality. Once you turn fifty , even m...

Philosophers have discussed at great length the ultimate goal, if any, of mankind, but they have reached no consensus, for that is th...

In this series we have tracked the fortunes of the British Chess Club of Paris and its members for the 12 years or so up to its demise when ...

When we were discussing Reti's 15. Qa1 yesterday , we observed that Fine, annotating the move in The World's Great Chess Games , quo...

Reti-Rubinstein Karlsbad, 1923 15. Qa1! This is a an obvious move, isn't it? It's obvious to you. It's obvious to ...

Here’s a post that’s long and pointless: a theoretical survey on an opening that nobody bothers with these days. I’m not even going to ...

Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco, Handel: Lotario (Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, 2011) [ via Richard James] [Cover version index ]

Lord Avebury is dead . I think I missed that at the time, or I'd forgotten about it since, but I had a look around and as per usual,...

1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. d4 cxd4 4. Nxd4 g6 The Accelerated Dragon. Never remotely as popular as its allegedly slower cousin, but as far...

White to play I was leafing through an old chess magazine the other day.  I came across a piece by Jacob Aagaard on what was th...

In the first post on this series about the long-forgotten British Chess Club of Paris (1926 to 1938/9) we looked at some of the personalit...

Yuck . Naturally one hopes that everybody checked their envelopes carefully to make sure there wasn't five hundred quid missing , a...

Faye’s game wouldn’t pass the Rudd Test "Why doesn’t it rain indoors?"  That’s a pretty good question if you think...

Exit Crockett . Do read, as suggested, his own statement , for its entertainment value alone. Among the various nonsenses, we can find one...

The first part of this series introduced the British Chess Club of Paris that was founded in 1926. It remained active until the declaration...

I was pleased to read this . What precisely it means may not be entirely clear, but I'd hope to be reading it right if I assume that s...

Congratulations to Stephen Crockett who has returned to the circuit and picked up second prize in the Nottingham Rapidplay , under-135 ...

Before I get going, may I issue a quick reminder to some of our readers that we have a deal . That said, here’s the From Russia With L...