English Chess Forum

David Robertson has reminded me that the last time I saw Wynton Marslis playing the trumpet was in 2003 in the evening after the British Chess Championships in Edinburgh.
Leonard Barden has indeed touched our lives in many ways and long may he continue to do so.

I have seen these type of images before. The Hungarian ones always have the board around the right way.

Colim. The Snooker Senior WC is deemed TV worthy, while the regular Chess World Championship still isn't. The WCC was broadcast on both BBC2 and Channel 4 in 1993, Kasparov v Short. The figures must have been disappointing as, after that, virtually nothing. Of course you cn see chess perfectly well ...

STOP PRESS
ON sKY WITNESS the show CRIMINAL MINDS is showing a lot of chess- all accurate.
It is repeated in my system 12-1 am.

More important than ghost rooks, is the question
WHY DO WE CALL IT CASTLING RATHER THAN ROOKING?

I cannot fathom why anybody is discussing a chess variant they have probably never played, or seen played. When I gave odds of the Ra1 about 50 years ago; the a2 pawn was placed on a3. I don't remember whether 0-0-0 with a phantom rook was allowed. This complied with good practice in New York where ...

Bobby's responses were perfectly 'normal' on the two shows. When we knew each other, 1963-1972, this was not always so. I had never even heard of autism in those days. So I could easily have been wrong in my later assessment. I found his anti-Jewish statements later on deeply disturbing. How could h...

I think I may have seen those before. But thank for bringing them back. It shows unequivocally that Bobby wasn't autistic.

The idea is that an arbiter is doing his job, patrolling the playing area. The players are sitting there thinking with White's clock clock going and both kings are in check. The arbiter has no prior knowledge of the game. So he waits. The reason is that the player may not yet have noticed that his o...

Soheil. I do not see that statement in either the Laws or the 2018 Arbiters' Manual. Nonetheless A player asks whether he can castle queens. Perhaps his Ra1 is threatened, or the square b1 is covered by Black or both. The arbiter has not observed the whole game. The arbiter should respond something ...

I also had the idea of playing a bullet chess tournament in the Channel Tunnel. They were besieged by suggestions at that time and nothing came of it. Why not have a second go? A whole tournament n 20 minutes! A Tournament, or a one-on-one match on the underground?? Chess in a swimming pool? After e...

Tim Harding >Surely Zapolskis (from Lithuania) could not be crowned British Champion were he to win? On what grounds was he allowed to enter?< The Southern Irish have been allowed to play in the Bfitih Championships since 1987. I introuced that rule. People resident in the British Isles for a year o...

Korchnoi gave a simul against English youngesters on a cross-channel ferry, Generally chess on cruise ships on not as successful as bridge ones. Chessplayers have less available funds. I did have the idea of running the British Chess Championships on a cruise ship going around Great Briatin. But the...

According to chessgames, as above, NO computer was involved in the game.
It was an algorithm worked out on paper. That is pretty amazing.
But a human must have resigned when White was about to go queen for rook down.

Today's Daily Telegraph, letters page. The real Turing test SIR - Not oNly did Alane Turing excel at running ut he was also a mean chess player -and he combined the two things by devising a version of the game which required each player to run around the garden after every move. Given his pivotal ro...