English Chess Forum

There is an offence of wasting police time, and perhaps there should be one of wasting other posters' time as well If it becomes unbearable, I will let you know. You could dip into The Complete Chess Addict by poster Richard James and his former associate Mike Fox, as well as The Even More Complete...

Oh they love on line chess gossip. Your chances are much higher than you think. Just finger a few godfathers of the grandmaster underworld and they will come knocking soon.

Well yes they are but in our culture, particularly amongst the aristocracy, there is the prevailing mentality, or at least a tendency, to think you can do whatever you so wish as long as you aren't caught or seen doing it. What goes on behind closed doors is kept there until documented or reported o...

Anyway, not a pleasant topic. Can we move on to more honorable and respectable members of the human race than him...was Stalin a former British Chess Champion?

I was looking at the Wikipedia page for William Winter and was struck by the comment, "Winter has the distinction of being the only British Champion to have served time in prison (for his political activities)." I can think of others who should have been imprisoned, but is he really the only one? I...

Probably not. Tony Miles had a rather chequered career late on although I believe he was only detained before being sectioned.

Is it true that The Sunday Sport is considering a chess column too?

In assuming he went to Cambridge or Oxford,he may well have games found in their archives in their many forms. That aside where he resided some games may appear in local newspapers, especially if he participated in a simul. Other than that I don't know what else to suggest. That he was an amateur bu...

I lament that the only GMs that did this and went shagging behind their wife's back were Brits abroad. I bet you can guess who was most guilty. The last one he coupled up with was a very pretty German woman, a top 1200 player, 1279. Long blonde hair and very petty. He was a low 2600 player way back ...

Turn up. Take their money. Bugger off elsewhere. Take their money instead.

Yes and apologies for my cynicism but the modern game is a rather complex beast and those who just assume those at its apogee are most worthy of following need a very firm kick up the bum imo. Modern day Britain is such a free for all, the difference between professional chess players and uneducated...

No chance of being a latter day Spartan I'm afraid. Too many years of reading Plato as an under-grad and post-grad prevents such matters [if you aren't sure what I am alluding to here then its that Athens lost to Sparta and was in ruins. A defeated Athens was what much of Socrates' inquiries were ba...

It's all about money.

My point is there is an abundance of exciting players at the top end, and I think we can agree the world champion has played both Karjakin and Anand at the very highest level in recent years. Clearly the priority here was notoriety beyond the chess world and not about providing entertaining chess fo...

Let's hope not. Britain is going to become notorious for dubious gatherings of overpaid GMs if we are not careful...oh but wait modern day Britain is all about letting anyone in and helping themselves isn't it?