Tag Archives: chess
Ask the Arbiter (01/13) by Alex McFarlane
FIDE Licensing The International body has decided that all events submitted to it for rating must only have arbiters with a FIDE Licence officiating. This regulation applies to all events which began on or after …
Book Review by IR Watson
Encyclopedia of Chess Problems – Themes and Terms. By Milan Velimirovic & Kari Valtonen. (Chess Informant, 2012. www.chessinformant.rs) Hardback, 520 pages. ‘The Definitive Book’ – that’s written on the front cover and it nearly put …
Forthcoming Event
Basingstoke Discovery Centre ‘Discover Board Games’ for young people aged 4-12 years, parents/guardians welcome. Saturday/fortnightly 10.00am-1.00pm free. Basingstoke Library, Potters Walk, Basingstoke, Hampshire. Come and play a variety of games including Scrabble, Chess, Draughts, Snakes …
Book Review: De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834
‘De la Bourdonnais versus McDonnell, 1834: The Eighty-Five Games of Their Six Matches, with Excerpts from Additional Games Against Other Opponents’ – Cary Gutterberg McFarland & Company, Inc, North Carolina (2005; now in hardback in …
Chess Without Kings by Ray Cavanaugh
A Unique Match between Ben Franklin and France’s Louis XVI Ray Cavanaugh Ben Franklin was many things: among them, a chess player. His London residence at 36 Craven Street contained a gorgeous set made of …
