John Saunders' Chess Blog

Not very excited by the above results table? Me neither. Here's a quick blog post for an idea I had that I can't accommodate into ...

Here's something I came across whilst browsing old newspapers for something entirely different... From the Lincolnshire Chronicle -...

Guardian journalist Stephen Moss has written a book about his personal chess quest, called 'The Rookie' (Bloomsbury, 2016). Stephen ...

I like to post what I am pleased to think of as chess-related witticisms on Twitter now and again, and when I saw something amusing on Peter...

From the Manchester Guardian , 13 August 1929, page 4 An interesting snippet about Mir Sultan Khan (1905-66), who had just won the 1929 Br...

Above is a cutting from an article which appeared in the  Western Morning News on Saturday 12 August 1933, page 7. Here is the text I...

Here's a little poser... White, to play his 41st move, has a huge material advantage - queen for bishop and pawn. But he has two ...