John Saunders' Chess Blog

Naisortep (or can I call you Nargit?) has asked to see the move that killed Dracula (see previous post). The position is from Anand vs Kaspa...

Long radio silence here at my blog. Apologies. After my busy time in the Isle of Man, I went down with a bad cold, then it was time for the ...

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...