Here’s another position from Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2 for you to analyse. White to play. Black has just offered a knight sacrifice. Should you accept it or not?

O.K. Another improvised - making it up as I go along - blog! I have the material ready for another one, which I was going to do today, but then this week I saw that it was Speelman's 70th birthday. Th...

The 6th of October brings us National Badger Day, so we join our friends at Scottish Badgers in designating the whole month to Brocktober. We are celebrating the crucial role badgers play in nature.

Im Teatro Politeama in Buenos Aires versammelten sich am Abend des 18. September 1939 hunderte Menschen zur Siegerehrung. Politiker waren gekommen, Diplomaten, dazu der Schachtross und das Publikum…

I left you last time at the end of 1925, with Mrs Arthur Rawson proposing to run a tournament for girls under the age of 21. The reasons for promoting chess for girls were, in one sense, not a lot …

The final two Chess Heroes books will be published soon. Here’s a position from Chess Heroes Puzzles Book 2. Zukertort – Weiss (Vienna 1882) White, to play, has a bunch of passed pawns …

Good afternoon everyone. O.K. I am making this up as I go along with what comes out of my head!! Yes, I really m! I see lots of blogs these days which are planned out to the last comma. Back in the da...