English Chess Forum

Where to start. Look at the introduction to Soviet Chess, full of personalized insults, such as the Soviets being 'the world's greatest liars' yet it tries to pass itself off as an academic publication, well at least it has the pretentions as such. Chess players should stick to chess theory and onl...

Reshevsky rarely missed a trick, ever. He had the help of such a steward in Great Yarmouth 1935 when he beat BH Wood. (See The Great Reshevsky on the Forward Chess platform.)

It is interesting that Roberts claimed chess to be "work" as if he were a professional, although playing in a lower section.

A few thoughts... Beware unrealistic quora. Imagine if a few people leave the club for whatever reason. There are real life cases of organisations unable (constitutionally) to call a meeting or replace officials, etc. Don't state an address unnecessarily. Venues are lost quicker than constitutions c...

My top three every year. 1. Slade — Merry Xmas Everybody [1973]. Noddy Holder called this perennial hit his equivalent of a pension plan. 2. The Waitresses — Christmas Wrapping [1981]. New wave, story-telling song with a happy ending. In real life the lead singer died of lung cancer aged 40. 3. Chuc...

It looks now as if all listed events now need the full monty of Zoom, no electronics in the room, etc. I think previously there seemed to be a small list, including the Major Open, that didn’t. ...correction. Everything but the qualifiers. I received an email this morning (5 Dec) from Nigel Towers:...

WIM Sabrina Chevannes was on the Times Radio Breakfast programme 12th November at approx. 07:41–07:49 discussing Netflix's Queen's Gambit (favourably) and females in chess more generally.

Nigel Byrne was also a Member of Sutton Coldfield Chess Club at the time of his passing. He will be very, very much missed by everyone at the Club.

Here he is back in March 2018 —happier times! — with some of the trophies that he helped Sutton Coldfield to win.

Every autumn since 2006, Sutton Coldfield CC and Warley Quinborne CC have played a friendly but graded match, alternating between their respective venues. At the first meeting the Warley captain, John Fahy, brought a cake by his daughter, which was well received, and so the one-off match turned into...

Practical Chess Openings by Reuben Fine (1948) 470 pages.

How about...

The History and Romance of Elastic Webbing by Clifford A. Richmond (1946);

and

How to Avoid Intercourse With Your Unfriendly Car Mechanic by Harold M. Landy (1977).

I do not want to paint a picture of doom and gloom, but it is fair to say that there will be a lot of work to do for everyone once chess restarts. As I said it is unimportant at the moment, but it is still something to think about. What I worry about is the loss of chess club venues — pubs and soci...

MJMcCready wrote: ↑

Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:36 am

If the virus is transmuted onto a chess set, which piece are you most likely to catch it from? Are pawns more susceptible to germs than minor or major pieces?

Probably safest are a newly promoted piece, a knight on the rim, disconnected rooks, and an isolated pawn.

https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/index.html

Well worth a browse. I've even contributed to it myself.

Owen Hindle was once a Member of Sutton Coldfield Chess Club, so three years ago I wrote (with his help on a couple of details) a micro-biog for the Club's website http://www.suttonchess.org.uk/ Owen Hindle (b. 1940), author of Further Steps in Chess (1968), and co-author of The English Morphy? (200...

In a local league I lost easily to a 200+ player, which was no surprise. The fixtures were such that we were to meet again in the return match the very next week. I was determined that our new game would not be a procession again, and that now I would force him to think, so I sacced a knight for two...