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Switchbacks and Your Chess Pass to London.


Here is my VIP pass to the 2013 London Chess Classic.
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Copy it out (use a colour printer) paste it to a piece of card.
stick it in a plastic folder, tie it around your neck and swan
about the 2016 London Classic like you are someone important.

If some jobs-worth security guard spots the 2013 and challenges...

Chess Informator No1. (and it's Hall of Doom)


This is the first Informator
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They are currently up to Informator 128
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Before databases and the internet this was only real way to keep up with the
games latest theoretical wrinkles and what openings the top players were using. ...

How to be Lucky in Chess


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Do not buy this book!

I did and before I went to sleep I put it under my pillow.

That night I dreamt of nothing else but the number four.
It appeared in all shapes and sizes .Trees turned into th...

Victor Korchnoi and Magic Moments


Victor Korchnoi who was an immense figure in the chess world when
I was learning my trade passed away a few days ago. (June 6th 2016).

About the time of his 1978 match with Anatoly Karpov I had started
to get an inkling what the game was all about and understood it better.
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I’d rush out to get the Times, Telegraph or Guardian to get th...

My Lucky Chess Socks.


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These are my lucky chess socks, I’ve been wearing them since 1972.
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Thought I’d check out this chess book. (pun intended.)
A good name for a chess player that ................Daniel. ...

Chess Puzzle Number 655


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Don’t be fooled by the cover. This is a devil of a book to work through.
I’ve had this book for nearly 8 years now and I’ve still not finished it.

Compare this with Reinfeld’s 1,000 combinations which took me
on and off a month or three to complete, one chief reason being I
could go through whole pages of the Reinfeld book because I had...

The Chess Mind....


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That is not a random position on the cover it is from a game analysed in the book.

Keres - Eliskases, Norway 1938.


52. Rxf2 Rxf2 53. a7 Ra2 54. b6 Kc3 55. Kb1 Ra6 56. b7 {The position on the cover.} 56... Rb6+ {Ka1 then Ra6+ and Rb6+} 57. Kc1 Rh6 {White has no time to promote due to Rh1 mate. The game was agreed draw. We play on to make sure you get the idea.} 58. Kd1 Kd3 59. Ke1 Ke3 60. Kf1 Kf3 61. Kg1 Rg6+ 62. Kf1 Rh6 63. Kg1 Rg6+ 64. Kf1 Rh6 65. Ke1 Ke3 66. Kd1 Kd3 {This is a draw.}...

Raymond Keene's Book of Gambits


I have hundreds of chess books, yes hundreds and I never realised
just how boring the covers are. Most are like this below. Boring.
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You can see my imagination really went overboard on that one.

So why pick it? Because Raymond Keene gives each gambit a rating.
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On this page we shall endeavour to seek out the one star ratings...

Chess Candidates and the The One-Eyed Trap


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Back by popular demand another crossword. Answer the questions
and the shaded boxes will reveal the name of a famous chess player.

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The Queen Stab in the Back and Crossword

Keeping up the three week old tradition of moving chess books covers.
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Let me know when you get bored....I have over 500 chess books.
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You get four clues and if you answer them correctly you will spell out
the name of a famous chess player in the shaded areas of the crossword.
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