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I was very sad to hear of Kenny's passing. I knew Kenny initially through correspondence chess in the early 2000's - he was extremely strong at that format of the game. Around 2005-2008 , as Kenny lived in Ashford ,Kent he managed to get us both to play at the 4NCL for Cheddleton - I think because o...

Using the Easter break to catch up with some reading i have made a start on the interesting life imitates chess by Kasparov. On page 16 he gives several examples of famous chess players suffering psychiatric difficulties namely; German Master Curt von Bardeleban (suicide) William Steinitz Akiba Rubi...

Andrew

Thats great i will bring them over Saturday afternoon and come and find you.

Regards

Hi Following a rather disappointing chess business failure 2 years ago i am left with 9 sets of brand new House of Staunton quality plastic chess sets with a mixture of high quality folding boards and normal vinyl type boards. I live local to Canterbury and can pop them along on Saturday afternoon i...

I've just fed the key Gormally -Anderson position into Fritz and Ba2 (rather than Bxf5) looks winning for Anderson. Qa3 is no defence as b4 or Ne2 leave White dead in the water! What a shame for Anderson. I doubt Anderson missed ...Ba2. Objectively ...Ba2 is best yes but the position after 21.Bd3 Q...

Greets endgame is interesting.

Does the protected pawn d5 count or are we looking at a draw here?