John Saunders' Chess Blog

I shall start by admitting that we all make typos, all of the time, but there are times when you simply have to check, double-check and make...

I tuned in to watch the tail-end of round two of the world championship and was hugely surprised by Kramnik's play in this game. It was ...

"Oh young Miss Hou, What shall I do? I've got those British-bashing Chinese chessplayer Blues..." (apologies to George Formby)

So the official verdict is that Nigel Short shouldn't have called Makro and Azmai 'dunderheads'. On reflection that seems to be ...

One of my oldest chess friends chided me over my overlong silence here at the BCM Blog, so I thought I would write something of my Tuesday t...

"The Danegeld was an English tribute raised to pay off Viking raiders to save the land from being ravaged by the raiders. The expeditio...

Thie briefest of brief blog entries... http://www.gibraltarchesscongress.com ... the new website for the 2008 Gibtelecom Chess Festival is n...