Lost On Time

Banned from the Roxy, OK I never much liked playing there anyway - Crass I've been playing competitive chess for more than forty yea...

So how does Chess.com's system work anyway? I don't really know, and I don't particularly want to speculate, not more than I...

I'd like to look at a few positions from some of the games I played on Chess.com. I've not been through all the games I played on ...

Attached, at the foot of this piece, are the scores of all the games I played on Chess.com since I began to play regularly. There's only...

I hadn't expected to be posting here again, not really. But something came up, something important - important to me, because I'm in...

This blog is in hibernation until such time as its author rediscovers some enthusiasm for it.

I never - until yesterday - knew that The Monkey's Paw begins with a chess game. No wonder they came to no good. [ Also se...

I don't read the British Chess Magazine, since it's full of trash , but I do know people who do, and so I happen to know that for so...

On this blog's predecessor, we used to maintain a regular feature called Bad Book Covers , trying to identify the best of the worst in o...

Over the last few days, I've found quite a lot of adverts popping up for this book on my smartphone. Matter of fact, it popped up t...

It was my wife's birthday on Sunday, and as we were due to be working in Madrid in the coming week, we went up a day early, had lunch i...

Well said . It would be good to see less of this kind of tat in the future. And, for that matter, this .

There's a Twitter account I follow and a Tweet last week happened to catch my eye. If you have the sound on you might have recogni...

I logged on relatively early on Thursday for the last round of the World Team Championship, I guess an hour or so in, which is relatively ea...

This Revisit is to Tate Modern for the splendid retrospective of Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) who passed away just a few years ago, but no...

Oh really ? One wonders which instances of players "sometimes" yelling Zugzwang Robert Macfarlane has in mind. [ Vaguely ...

For the second of these Chess in Art Revisits , we catch up with Tom Hackney, about whom we have blogged frequently during his Chess in Art ...

I was saying just yesterday that carelessness is a Ray characteristic. There's a million examples to choose from, but here's a nice...

Coming back to Ray's fake charity , the Brain Trust, and its accounts , I mentioned before that up to year ending 31 March 2016 the acc...