Lost On Time

This video turned up on YouTube this past weekend, specially recommended for me by a hand-picked team of algorithms. It obviously isn't ...

In the course of yesterday's posting we took a glance at the ECF event calendar which continues to advertise events organised by Couls...

In the course of posting here about Howard Curtis, the imprisoned former head of Coulsdon Chess Fellowship whose organisation still continue...

[This post by Martin Smith] This series is telling the story of Louisa Matilda Fagan (née Ballard) (1850-1931), born in Italy of an Americ...

A guest post by Jonathan Bryant Should the SCCA play its home matches at Cousldon? The short answer to this is, “it depends”. Not very h...

Two sets of tosh for you. The first from Erica Buist's less-than-stellar Magnus Carlsen interview in yesterday's Guardian, a piece ...

It's not really "spanking", of course: that gives the impression of something much less serious, some kind of sex game. Wha...

Yesterday at Croydon Crown Court Howard Curtis was jailed for six years. He was found guilty of two counts of child cruelty and six c...

[This post by Martin Smith] A few years ago we deconstructed (in ten episodes) the remarkable chess painting created by Anton Rosenbau...

What you see in the following clip is cheating. I wish it wasn't. I wish it hadn't happened. But it did - and there's no po...

The number in this Yahoo report about chess has been blacked out. Before looking it up , can you possibly guess what it might be?

You may recall that last week this blog ran a piece , a touch on the sceptical side, about the claim that thirteen million people watched a ...

One other thing relating to that interview with Leontxo García and Miguel Illescas that we were looking at, a little sceptically, yesterday ...

Just yesterday we were discussing the surprise appearance of chess, in the shape of the 1984 Karpov-Kasparov match, in the longrunning Span...

If you don't know Spain you probably won't have heard of Cuéntame Cómo Pasó , the long-running show on TVE1 (basically the equiva...

Seems ages since we heard anything of the ex-President of the English Chess Federation. Well, not since he claimed to be a murderer in the...

Something odd struck me just at the end of this rather nice video which has been going about over the past couple of weeks. It's t...

Why is this man not smiling? Contrary to the impression perhaps given by the photograph, it is not because he is about to be shot. He ...

"The child is father of the man" wrote Wordsworth. Chess-wise that seems more true than ever. The World Champion, a GM at 13, is a...

Returning to Hikaru Nakamura's adventures in J'adoube, I wonder if followers of other sports than chess might find it strange that ...