Afternoon everyone. I am back with another look at a master of the art of annotating a chess game. Mark Taimanov. In passing, I must say that many Soviet players of the era were outstanding annotators - perhaps it was all to do with the training t...
Afternoon everyone. I am off on holiday in a couple of days so back more quickly than intended with this part of the series. Before I begin, let's throw in a wonderful picture I have just come across researching this - I guess it is from the Not...
Afternoon everyone, and welcome along to some chess joy! Last time round I mentioned that one of many projects which I have never gotten round to doing is to write about my favourite annotators. So let's do a series! You get one game in each. ...
Good afternoon everyone. An off-hand conversation a few days ago brought to mind a quite extraordinary chess tournament result. Keres at Semmering/Baden ( it was played in two parts) back in 1937. The tournament where Keres felt that he had beco...
Afternoon everyone. I get into a lot of chess discussions in different places, which always throw various games out of my mental database. So three today for you to just enjoy looking at. Some simple chess pleasure! Let's do them chr...
London busses, as we say. No blog for ages, then two come along at once! . One for my dear friend @AstroTheoretical_Physics He has just done a wonderful blog about the artist/chess player Marcel Duchamp. You can find it here :- https...
Good Afternoon everyone. Apologies for my absence - it has been a busy time here. @Shakhmati3 has asked me about a simultaneous exhibition of Lasker's in 1926. His grandfather C.M. Fitzgerald took part. Nice! So I have been doing a little diggin...
Afternoon everyone. Some good news - the Lasker project which I mentioned so long ago has finally been published. Some of my friends already have their copies, which is good to see. Carl Portman - who is doing amazing work for chess in prisons...
Afternoon everyone. Although I post chess from the past, I very definitely keep up to date with what is going on in the chess world. I am not one of those who thinks that everything in the past was better, or everything today is better. Goat lists...
Afternoon everyone. Back with part two of my humble tribute to one of the forgotten. Part one here :- https://www.chess.com/blog/simaginfan/ilmar-raud-a-chess-tragedy-not-forgotten-part-one As said last time, no time to do this pr...
Firstly a genuine apology. The real world has intervened. Having done the research work for this post - one I have been meaning to do for many years - it turned out that I would not be able to do it properly for a number of weeks, so I have put th...
Afternoon everyone. Back with part three. A lot less text this time, but my usual bagful of games and pictures. Same rules as the last two - drop in and out when you have 10 minutes. So last time I mentioned Theo Tylor and Rupert Cross. You can ...
O.K. so I am back with part two - a mass of stuff here, so same rules as last time!! Dip in and out when you have time and I hope you enjoy what is here. I have decided to make it three parts, so more next time, with a lot of games. Mainly text th...
Good Afternoon Everyone. In times gone by I used to put together stupidly large, properly researched, articles. This is one of many that I never got round to putting on the page. So, loads here. Best advice - pop in and out when you have time to s...
Afternoon everyone. Another bit of self-indulgence today .My regular hardy band of readers will know how my head works. One chess idea leads to a stream of games jumping into my head. This week a friend of mine posted a game where I spotted a ni...
Afternoon everyone. It's been a busy time here, but I am back with some great chess for you to enjoy, plus some nice pictures. My regular readers will know a lot about Vladimir Simagin, but probably not about Genrikh/Ghenrikh Kasparia...
Good Afternoon Everyone. Sadly I have had plenty of time on my hands this week, so some time with my head in chess books, resulting in a long blog! I have lots on the tournament. Gideon Barcza played c.c. and there is a mass of material on it sp...
Afternoon everyone. it's been quite a week here, but I have been able to look at a little bit of chess, so a small blog - mainly to show a forgotten game with a charming finish. Over in the twittersphere a friend posted the picture that the head...
Afternoon everyone, and welcome along to another of my 'My Week In Chess' kind of offerings.My Friend Victor Ciobanu has a new book out in electronic format on Amazon. A translation of one version of the Tournament Book of Bled 1961. ( I hav...
Afternoon everyone, and welcome along to another bit of self indulgence! I hope you get as much pleasure reading it as I did putting it together. ( As usual, I was having so much fun with the games that I got into time trouble and had to throw the...
Afternoon everyone. Sometimes digging around the side roads of chess history can be frustrating - even in the modern world where there is so much primary source material to be found online. A case in point for me this week! With my head back...
Good afternoon everyone. I have had a busy week! Apart from the 'joys' of earning a living I have been doing other stuff as well. Tata Steel chess to follow, two quite wonderful test matches going on, and my head in a chess book. researching som...
Afternoon everyone. Today you get what it says in the title. A mixed bag of goodies - lessons, pictures, some great chess and a bit of fun stuff. I hope you enjoy going through it as much as I enjoyed putting it together! Let's start with the bi...
Afternoon everyone. One of the great things about doing what I do in the modern world is that 'new old things' appear online all the time. Of course, sometimes that can make me look silly and mean that I have to rewrite stuff after publishing ...
Afternoon everyone. This was started as a Christmas blog, but I got distracted, so Happy New Year! First things first, for those who are scratching their heads. Just what is a Morphy Number?. All explained here:- https://chesscafe.com/the-skit...
