John Saunders' Chess Blog

Apologies for the long silence. I've still been here, beavering away at the magazine, website, Britbase, Gibraltar website, etc, but hav...

Chess has been rocked by another drug scandal. Yesterday, after the traditional MTel Masters soccer match, where the chessplayers line up ag...

Having taken the mickey out of the London Evening Standard in my previous blog entry, I'm only too pleased to retract everything in thi...

What's with all these people suddenly saying sorry? Is it perhaps a symptom of swine flu or is it an ailment in its own right? The fat c...

Whilst at the 4NCL in Daventry on Monday, I bumped into FM Jonathan Rogers of Barbican (see photo) . Jonathan recommended to me his ninth ro...

Frances Barber is a highly accomplished and very attractive British actress. In today's (25 April) Telegraph , she mentions that she is ...

I'm testing some new code for displaying games in an online viewer on this blog. I'm using Chess Viewer Deluxe , written by Nikolai ...