Lost On Time

Chess in Art has been a bit thin on the ground recently. However, a few things of interest have popped up that encourage several visits to o...

Now here's a thing - the latest accounts for the Brain Trust, Ray Keene's fake charity , are out. They're late, but they're...

Good spot Rog . The Chessbase article on the FIDE campaign to be accepted as a sport at the 2024 Olympics is, as it says, a translatio...

Funny thing is I was just wondering whether to renew my subscription . I've not seen the first issue of 2019 yet - well, I've s...

I doubt it especially since the Opening Ceremony involved parading round a Miss Gibraltar once again . So maybe this obser...

If you haven't seen it yet, here's my email to Ray, as yet unanswered, in Kingpin .

Roger  was kind enough to comment on last Monday's post , on the apparent discovery by Chess and Bridge that the Times chess correspo...

...since the Today Programme ran an interview with Nigel Short about a ban on chess that hadn't happened . (And within a couple of...

Well this is amusing. But also a little curious . Good, Ray's book got the push. Great news. Excellent. Still, one wonde...

There's an odd little thing that I'm not too fond of tucked away in the latest ECF monthly email. It's on a Word documen...

Why did nobody tell me about this major publishing event ? Who's Barry Martin? He's a minor figure in the history of British ar...

What nonsense is this ? It's not new nonsense, that's for sure: see for instance this piece from August 2016 (and indeed  this...

A bit late for Boxing Day this post may be....but even further back in the mists of time, on the Streatham and Brixton Chess Blog , we exami...

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...