Now I'm retired from full-time chess magazine editing, I can indulge my various passions (family history, local history, photography, guitar playing, ...

As I mentioned in my last blog post, I'm spending more of my time as a chess detective these days, with a view to updating the game files on BritBase. That ...

The last fortnight has been very busy but highly enjoyable, writing reports for the London Chess Classic (go to the linked page and click on 'Reports' in ...

Enjoyed my chat about chess with Laurie Taylor and Gary Fine on yesterday's (16 December 2015) BBC Radio 4 programme Thinking Allowed. Laurie was a very ...

Here's a little poser... White, to play his 41st move, has a huge material advantage - queen for bishop and pawn. But he has two problems: (1) his queen ...

From the Manchester Guardian, 13 August 1929, page 4An interesting snippet about Mir Sultan Khan (1905-66), who had just won the 1929 British Chess ...

I like to post what I am pleased to think of as chess-related witticisms on Twitter now and again, and when I saw something amusing on Peter Doggers' (of ...

Guardian journalist Stephen Moss has written a book about his personal chess quest, called 'The Rookie' (Bloomsbury, 2016). Stephen learnt chess when he ...

This is my first blog post from the 2018 World Chess Championship match between Magnus Carlsen and Fabiano Caruana, being played at The College, ...

As we all know, chess has a strong element of sado-masochism about it. Have you ever noticed how a crowd gathers round a board when some gruesomely obvious ...