English Chess Forum

At 3Cs we need to make space in our club library for new acquisitions. Reluctantly we've decided that this might be best achieved by selling our run of bound volumes of the British Chess Magazine from the early 1950s up to the mid-2000s (some in cloth and some in Cordex binders). If at all intereste...

This news came as a great shock. For over a decade I’ve collaborated with Zenón in translating many of his books from Spanish to English for various publishers. His most recent books have been self-published. I was expecting to receive the proofs of his latest book (about Tony Miles) at any moment. ...

Mike and I both attended Leeds University in the late 1960s and I got to know him quite well. I visited his flat frequently, to discuss chess, look at games and borrow his copies of Shakhmatny Bulletin and Sahovski Glasnik. I remember those times very fondly. Although Mike was a much stronger player...

Adams seems to have thrown away the win in his game. His opponent's defensive configuration is new to me. R7/P4r2/8/2K2k2/8/8/8/8 w - - 0 1 Usually you would defend by parking the King on g7 or h7 and check the King from the first rank. Look up "Vancura" It was new to me too! In the form of a study...

The first game I can recall seeing with White deliberately exchanging the light-squared bishops in the Carlsbad, while pursuing the plan of the minority attack, was this one: Reshevsky,Samuel Herman - Myagmarsuren,Lhamsuren [D36] Sousse Interzonal Sousse (1), 1967 1.d4 e6 2.c4 d5 3.Nc3 Nf6 4.cxd5 ex...

Many thanks for suggestions so far! To give some idea of what we are seeking, thanks to the wonderful Wayback Machine (Internet archive) you can still see snapshots our old 3Cs website, for instance: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20071010021922/http://cccs.chess.btinternet.co.uk/ Some of the lin...

Many thanks for suggestions so far! To give some idea of what we are seeking, thanks to the wonderful Wayback Machine (Internet archive) you can still see snapshots our old 3Cs website, for instance: https://web-beta.archive.org/web/20071010021922/http://cccs.chess.btinternet.co.uk/ Some of the link...

I'd welcome some advice! My club (3Cs) used to have a perfectly decent website, hosted by BT. Since BT pulled the plug on it some time ago we've somehow managed without one, but we're now thinking that a replacement is long overdue. In the absence so far of a rush of volunteers within our club, I mi...

There is some good advice, in my opinion anyway, on this and many other junior chess issues at

https://www.utdallas.edu/chess/educatio ... enulty.pdf

Well spotted! Now that this is "out of the bag", as it were, I can safely tell you that this was going to be one of the revelations in the forthcoming book by GM Zenón Franco on Rubinstein (in Everyman's "Move by Move" series), which I am currently translating from Spanish. After analysing the tacti...

Many thanks, Stewart and Roger,for your comments and suggestions.

Our local evening league is intending to introduce an (optional) time control with increments next season. Traditionally we have an initial session (30 moves in 1h15) followed by a final session of 20 minutes to finish. I’m very sympathetic to the logic of the Cox-Shaw view (expressed recently at th...

This criticism of Chessbase is very odd: CB12 comes with a 300+ page manual in pdf.

An interesting topic, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea for anyone to be using chessgames.com as a source of accurate historical information. See for instance this article http://www.chesscafe.com/urcan/urcan54.htm which expresses far better than I could why this website is not listed among my...

An interesting topic, but I'm not sure it's such a good idea for anyone to be using chessgames.com as a source of accurate historical information. See for instance this article http://www.chesscafe.com/urcan/urcan54.htm which expresses far better than I could why this website is not listed among my ...