Category Archives: Humour
Ask the Arbiter (07/12) by Alex McFarlane
Jamboree: A complicated system for team matches where an absent team causes maximum havoc. Jumper: A child’s or continental name for a knight. For some players an article of clothing worn throughout an event and …
A Chess Piece by Philip Gross
Leather and ash, an old man’s smell; sweat-seasoned wood … They sit at prayer, at prey. A hundred clocks tut-tut their precious time away with choppers poised. The bloodless tete-a-tete. is called a congress, …
Book Review: The Chess Assassin’s Business Manual
‘The Chess Assassin’s Business Manual’ by Bob Long (Thinkers’ Press 2008). paperback. 295 pages. Foreword by Grandmaster Karsten Mueller. Sub-titled Stories and Methods this book is a very mixed collection of games, stories, advice and …
Blitz Corner
chessparrot (1488)-v-marciopedrosa5090 (1589) Open Lopez, 03/12 [Fritz provides 19…Bc2! and 22 e6! and 22…Qb4! At the end the under-promotion was necessary because I’d missed my backrank weaknesses. I only anticipated a queen exchange. Still, what …
