John Saunders' Chess Blog

I don't know what effect it had on blog readers, but the phenomenal London Chess Classic earlier this month at Olympia seems to have re-...

A recent newspaper interview indicates that Vishy Anand is to have Magnus Carlsen as one of his seconds for the World Championship match wit...

While I was working as press chief at the London Chess Classic in London, many thousands of miles away one of my oldest chess friends was do...

I'm still suffering from chess blogger's cramp. I have to do so much chess writing in other contexts that the blog occupies a rather...

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...