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Our Bayelsa and C4 Chess Academy kids continue their dominance in Nigerian chess. This time it's the Board games schools tournament 2025

Yesterday CNN published a rather poor story on the termination of the first Karpov-Kasparov match in 1985. It is clear that Jamie Barton didn't read my book "The Longest Game".

You can save £200 by buying same book sold at Amazon for £220 (!!) and only in "Good" -- not <Excellent> state -- f/ Chess & Bridge: London Chess Centre shop. & in mint condition. Is £220 tag a #joke? A cover 4 an #illicit product? Are there really ppl deep into #chess who d/k how to check prices?

Vera Menchik was an active member of #Lewisham Chess Club; played regularly for LCC teams. Club chair Andrew Craig researched this txt on our history (at lewishamchessclub.wixsite.com/lewishamcc/his…). In 1937-38 she was board 1, led LCC almost to win London Chess League. Killed by V1 rocket 27.1.1944. #RIP

V likely that figure of '85K views' in 1 wk is false. "Viewers" can be bought easily & cheaply. E.g Tim Schmoyer explains clearly how its done & giveaway signals youtube.com/watch?v=yu--yS… Such 'fixes' breach @youtube's regulations. @NYTimes too exposed it nytimes.com/interactive/20…

Titles of #youtube chess vids? 1) Host says Magnus Carlsen 's opening'd never been played b4 ie 1 H3 Nf6 2G4 youtube.com/watch?v=5ixOIq… I pointed to 6 games at 365chess.com/opening.php?m=… My pt was deleted at once 2) Same M claims GM Fawzy graded 2900. Chess.com Dont believe the hype!

Titles of #youtube chess vids? 1) Host says Magnus Carlsen's opening'd never been played b4 ie 1 H3 Nf6 2G4 youtube.com/watch?v=5ixOIq…… I pointed to 6 games at 365chess.com/opening.php?m=…… he deleted it at once 2) Guy claims GM Fawzy graded 2900 (2513!) Chess.com's 2900 maybe?

GM Bobby Cheng has a half point lead going into Rd 7 of the Isle Of Wight International. A few English players in the following pack, with some nice games lined up for tomorrow, notably IM Matthew Wadsworth vs FM Stanley Badacsonyi. #chess #englishchess

Leo Tolstoy playing chess 😄

England 1 (Adams, Conquest, Wells, Hebden) lead World Senior Team event after 6 rounds. 54 teams but of widely varying quality; England 2 are 8th. chess-results.com/tnr1045093.asp… Winner most likely either UK or US. Can be followed live at lichess.org lichess.org/broadcast/worl…

Jonathan O'Connor Sean Coffey Leon Watson Lewisham Chess Club International Chess Federation The loss of PGN files is a huge problem for me. They removed that years ago but left access via the old system if you knew how to do it. That's gone, this was a very important resource.

Many congratulations to the England first team on winning the 65+ FIDE World Senior Team Championship - full results and table at chess-results.com/tnr1045094.asp…

In this thread I would like to introduce my site ask-avrukh.com which is designed to help chess players of different levels to build strong opening repertoire to compete effectively in tournaments.

Kingston is proud that two of the world champions are from our club: John Nunn (life vice-president) and Peter Large (current player).

Boris Vassilievitch Spassky (30 janvier 1937 - 27 février 2025) « Je crois que dans le milieu de partie j’étais plus fort que tous les autres. J’avais une très forte intuition pour déceler les moments critiques d’une partie. » Boris Spassky Boris Spassky - Vladimir Tukmakov,

Boris Vasilievich Spassky was a fascinating person and a great champion. I had a privilege to dine and talk to him on many occasions and i remember his wonderful sense of humor and witty words. The first time i met him it was around 2005 or 2006. He complimented my play with

England 1's try to win International Chess Federation' 2025 World Senior Team event (Prague) faded. USA won: 1st four boards all grew up in ex-USSR! Noteworthy: England 2 came 5th tho' faced weaker teams: 3 of team graded under 2150! Nigel Davies got 7/9 on Bd 1! chess-results.com/tnr1045093.asp…

The ‘Swashbuckler’ himself was at Lewisham this week, racking up a fine win against our talented junior Furion. #chessmasters Check out Nick’s next event at Greenwich Peninsula Chess Club ⬇️ gpchess.com