Lost On Time

Funny old week, last week. A commentor on last Wednesday's piece drew our attention to this remarkable statement by Susan Polgar . U...

Last year the BBC ran a TV drama series  Life in Squares. It followed, in three episodes, the entangled lives of the Bloomsbury Group - the ...

No official announcement yet, but here's an interesting addition to the  FIDE Calendar 2017 . Also see,  FIDE 2016 General Assembly...

S&B de Mooi index previously on Lost on Time

What's this, do you think? It's this , is what it is. Surely not , the reader surely says. And yet it surely is. ...

Chessbase, 2008 I'd intended to write a piece last weekend about a crochety old English chess master who gets into trouble when he...

[This is a guest post by   Richard James ,  to whom much thanks. There is a minor edit by MS]    Photo from the Condé Museum in Ch...

[This post by Martin Smith] We were talking a few of weeks ago about Chess in Art at this years Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Well, th...

Leontxo García has news for us! Apparently chess has about six hundred million followers around the world. It doesn't , of course...

[This post by Martin Smith] In this appendix to last week's post you are requested to take another look at the ensemble photograph of...

[This post by Martin Smith] This post comes a little late to advise you on any chess-art at this year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibiti...

[This post is by Martin Smith] The time has come, in the final episode of this series on Louisa Matilda Fagan née Ballard... In 1897, ...

A lot of interesting things have happened in chess since August 4 : the end of the British Championships , the announcement of the world c...

Taking breakfast in the airport at Prague on Saturday, I flicked through the Financial Times and found nothing of much interest. Just as wel...

[This post is by Martin Smith] Louisa Matilda Fagan née Ballard, the subject of this series (which started here ) and the strongest female...

By the time this publishes I ought to be on my way to Prague, to play in the Summer Open , my first proper chess since last August. I played...

One of the great pleasures of the British Championship has always been that some people seem ready to play any old nonsense in the openings....

Who's up for some tractor chess? No really . Saturday August 20, in the very small Spanish village of Hinojosa , in Molina-Al...

[This post by Martin Smith] We start this fifth episode of the life and chess of Louisa Matilda Fagan by going back to May 1913 (and episo...

And we're back in the tournament room. We'll never see Viktor Korchnoi there again. Come to that, we'll never see his like ag...