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I used to set chess-themed cryptic crosswords for the Open University Postal Chess Club's magazine back in the '90's. A bit niche :wink: I don't have any surviving copies, but it was fun. I've just returned to solving cryptics after a break of many years. If you allow surnames of living titled playe...

I'm rather surprised there's been no talk of the Candidates being played on-line. There were telegraph matches yonks ago, and Fischer competed in a Cuban tournament by telex. Surely the competitors could be policed at their terminals with minimum contact with other people. The appropriate software i...

The "Entrants" section of the Blackpool Congress website may well be out of date. I emailed one of the organisers some days ago to flag up my withdrawal, and I still appear on the list of entrants. I've actually withdrawn due to other health reasons (I also withdrew from Doncaster, and I'm going to ...