English Chess Forum

Final 1975 Master Game Speelman-Hartston Have a feeling this hasn't been available before, but haven't checked: https://youtu.be/UUAJfB6tGgc?is=OXGNZ2GROP_iRhn1 Edit: A rather lacklustre game, but entertaining video. Commentary by Leonard Barden, of this forum, suggesting players perfect capturing ...

Not to speak ill, but I think a lot of minor and intermediate section congress players, in the early 2010's will have different memories.

She was certainly a... *ahem* character... nuff said.

I'd advise you to steer clear of the Politics and Philosophy section, as it contains one of the most eyebrow-raising posts on the subject of racism I've ever seen. Most moderators would hit the delete button pretty sharpish after reading a few lines, but in this case it appears to be written by the...

Not a new "Other Place" didn't they try this about 10 years ago? I seem to remember it folded inside a year.

I play quite a bit of Correspondence Chess, as too busy with other stuff. In the last 18 months, I think I lost 1 game (error by playing the second move before the first *doh*) and drew the rest of my games. Using Stockfish isn't always reliable, as I am not always playing the "best move". In certa...

I read the novel when I was 16 and I'd been thinking for years, it will make a great film / series :) Ok through older eyes the story is slightly far fetched. Heath Ledger had secured the rights before he passed and was going to direct and star in it - presumably he would have played Beltik or more ...

For reasons I can't really remember, let alone fathom, I stopped playing OTB (save a couple of inter-college) games after I went to university and for a few years afterwards. But I did play CC during much of this time, I think in the tournaments then organised by CHESS. I am pretty sure we used des...

I am somewhat disenchanted with CC, but I have had a couple of recent events which have been entertaining, and included cheery conversations with some players. I'm not entirely sure that ICCF should be allowed to organize anything. Yeah, if it comes down to just entering ICCF events any playing on ...

For reasons I can't really remember, let alone fathom, I stopped playing OTB (save a couple of inter-college) games after I went to university and for a few years afterwards. But I did play CC during much of this time, I think in the tournaments then organised by CHESS. I am pretty sure we used des...

Correspondence chess has had a good and generally worthy innings, but isn't it now time to admit computers have made it basically obsolete? (certainly at the highest competitive levels, as perhaps opposed to a "bit of fun") The 33rd World Championship ended in 2025: https://www.iccf.com/event?id=10...

Paul Robert Jackson wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 02, 2026 10:24 am

Jon Mahony wrote: ↑

Wed Sep 02, 2026 1:27 am

I seem to remember there was one called "Soft Pawn" by Bill Hartston, which actually had some cartoon tits on the front lol

Soft Pawn Book.jpg

That's the one lol

I seem to remember there was one called "Soft Pawn" by Bill Hartston, which actually had some cartoon tits on the front lol

Do they still have Sid the Sexist? I'll bet that's too much now for the Snowflakes society.

I seem to remember seeing an old Foxy DVD with Andrew Martin on "Pickett's Charge" in the French - Named from an idea by Len if I'm not mistaken?

Honestly, RDK is knocking 80, isn't he getting a bit old to be bothering with all this. I doubt if Count GMRDKOBE can be bothered or cares a jot about criticism: why break the habits of a lifetime? I must say, just reading the original website which was posted, it is comically ridiculous - Dr, Prof...