Lost On Time

Now here's frustrating. While I was researching yesterday's piece - or trying to - I came across this link, via one set of searc...

You might recall this piece from early last year, in which I was, ah, sceptically non-committal about a Guardian story involving Donald Sut...

I'm sure you weren't going to touch it anyway, but I'm also sure you'll be as pleased as I was to learn from Olimpiu's ...

Alex Spencer, a schoolteacher and member of Streatham and Brixton Chess Club, went to the Carlsen v Caruana match, the first such event he...

Jonathan draws our attention to this piece from Wired a few days ago, in which the author, as well as being perhaps the only person on the...

One year on since the last episode, this is a belated addition to the sequence of posts recovering the forgotten story of the  British Ch...

I think on reflection I agree with myself . On principle I'm not against tie-breaks, as a system it seems - in and of itself - be...

Anybody remember when , in 2015, Kirsan wanted there to be a billion chess players within "five or six years"? We made it ! I...

Hey, when I posted yesterday I assumed Ray's new book was going to be some kind of Hardinge Simpole nonsense . But no ! It turns out ...

Of course Of course Of course!! Of course !

Good to see the sort of people Nigel's hanging about with now he's a man of influence.

Oh God , not again . Who is it this time? It's Tyler Cowen, who is an actual professor of economics and an actual chess playe...

While Magnus and Fabiano were squaring up for Game 2 last Saturday, there was some other chess action not a mile away - at the Wallace Colle...

Right, but was anybody actually surprised that Rex Sinquefield should speak boorishly about women? He's a sinister political fig...

Whose crony is who ? Since reform of FIDE is underway, I wonder if the old slogan, gens una sumus , could be replaced with....well I...

This is quite an eye-opener. This is pretty special too. I'd be surprised if this was entirely within the law, although I do...

I am asked : Where might it be found?

According to Bryan Arnem Graham in the Guardian Really? Only if you forget about Peter Leko . - - - - - Mind you, memories do ...

From Ray's Twitter : Pre match indeed:

Some clown called Brin-Jonathan Butler has written a book about the last world championship match. Can I be bothered even to give you the ti...