Lost On Time

Putting away the sets and pieces is a thankless task, yes? Not always. Around nine hundred years ago it was a task which allowed the Russell...

But what's this got to do with Herbert Jacobs?

Thanks to our reader Adam Ponting for spotting the latest manifestation of the 600 million myth , brought to us less than a week ago by IM ...

In this episode we are continuing to follow Herbert Jacobs' legal career by looking at cases of his reported in the press. However, befo...

This is jerk behaviour, isn't it? The bloke's been dead for maybe twenty-four hours and Nigel Short is picking a fight with ...

This season Oxford United have a new manager . Why do you care, you may ask. Well I might assume you spend part of any given day thin...

I'm a member of a Facebook group called British Chess News , which by and large I recommend, albeit not everything I see there can entir...

We started this exploration of the life and chess of Herbert Levi Jacobs (1863-1950) with his obituary. In it his sparring-partner chess-wi...

I was watching Village Of The Damned this afternoon, the 1960 movie adapted, reasonably closely, from John Wyndham's novel The Midwich ...

Pity's sake . Apparently Garry's a "star of science writing" now. Really? I mean he's co-written a book in tha...

Here's a funny thing. Just the other day I was flicking through some recent minutes of English Chess Federation board meetings, and in ...

From a Guardian piece about the Teaching Excellence Framework. Not for the first time we may find ourselves asking: what on earth has an...

After the extensive investigation of Herbert Jacobs' political engagement ( here and here ), the series takes a breather before we loo...

Thanks to the person who sent me this. I'm on a reading list! The reading list appears in the second edition of Teaching Statistics...

I was idling through the BBC Sport page yesterday, not expecting to see much to interest my chessplaying side, when I came across the invit...

I'm not sure how chuffed I am at the Institute of Psychiatry associating chess with being "socially aloof", let alone "...

We have come across it several times in this extended exploration of the life and chess of Herbert Jacobs (1863-1950): his propensity to exp...

It's my birthday tomorrow, and because I am not just a good guy but generous with it, I am going to give you all a present. Same present...

A lot of people didn't win on Thursday. But Mike Basman didn't win more than most.

I don't think I've  got the answer to yesterday's question - where Ray's Chessgames.com notes to Keene-Basman originate - b...