John Saunders' Chess Blog

The Montreal tournament ended much as it began, with another loss for Nigel Short. He tried a weird line of the King's Gambit (which is ...

In the end the Monroi Women's Grand Prix was won by Pia Cramling. Well done to her, but it was a very close run thing. She will know as ...

Though there is also a big event on in Switzerland, all eyes have been on Montreal this past couple of weeks, with two interesting events ru...

I've just been reading an article on the ChessBase website, which is a big promotion for some music composition/accompaniment software ...

I'm getting impatient waiting for the great chess event of the year. No, not the Mexican world championship; I mean the hearing of the F...

Here's a poser for you - WHITE TO PLAY. This position is from the game Nick Pert vs Gavin Wall and was played in round six of the recent...

My goodness, it has been a long time since I last blogged. There has been so much going on in terms of major chess events. I've been avi...