Lost On Time

It was my wife's birthday on Sunday, and as we were due to be working in Madrid in the coming week, we went up a day early, had lunch i...

Well said . It would be good to see less of this kind of tat in the future. And, for that matter, this .

There's a Twitter account I follow and a Tweet last week happened to catch my eye. If you have the sound on you might have recogni...

I logged on relatively early on Thursday for the last round of the World Team Championship, I guess an hour or so in, which is relatively ea...

This Revisit is to Tate Modern for the splendid retrospective of Dorothea Tanning (1910 - 2012) who passed away just a few years ago, but no...

Oh really ? One wonders which instances of players "sometimes" yelling Zugzwang Robert Macfarlane has in mind. [ Vaguely ...

For the second of these Chess in Art Revisits , we catch up with Tom Hackney, about whom we have blogged frequently during his Chess in Art ...

I was saying just yesterday that carelessness is a Ray characteristic. There's a million examples to choose from, but here's a nice...

Coming back to Ray's fake charity , the Brain Trust, and its accounts , I mentioned before that up to year ending 31 March 2016 the acc...

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 .