In 1987 I competed in the World Veteran Games in Melbourne. It was a wonderful experience and brought together athletes of all abilities, ranging from world champions to people who run like crabs. It's an experience akin to the Olympic Games for... Read more »
I just read Phil-from-Blayney's entertaining forum post about Why OTB will always be best. Phil's obvious enthusiasm -- and it bubbles through in this thread -- underlines his opening contention that OTB will "always be best". While I would ar... Read more »
In choosing games for my recent Spanish post (Duke of Plaza Toro) I selected a group of brevities won by Black, basically because I never play the white side of the Lopez. No doubt this would have been disappointing for all the Spanish aficionad... Read more »
When my Russian friend Pavel asked me to write about the Spanish Opening I needed a wrinkle because I had never played it—never as white anyway—so I thought I'd ask that celebrated, cultivated, underrated Spanish nobleman, the Duke of ... Read more »
When the last king has been laid to rest and I go to play on that Big Chessboard in the Sky St. Peter will ask what I have done to merit entry and I'll say, “I once taught a wealthy man how to play chess.” That's no easy task and even St. P... Read more »
A few years ago I was working at a festival in an Australian country town. At 9.00 when the doors opened I was talking to my friend Richard, a man with a deep love of philology. Only one person came through the doors, walked around looking at ... Read more »
When my opponent, PerfectGent, asked this morning about we Australians giving free hugs I didn't have a clue what he was talking about and asked my one-eyed friend Mr Google to help. Well, it seems a “free hugging” started in S... Read more »
Sometimes it's tempting to think a lower-rated opponent may be cheating if they find an uncharacteristically strong combination and sit you on your proverbial bottom—but is this necessarily so? Sometimes the difference between two ... Read more »
After Round 14 of the 1959 Candidates Tournament in Bled, a lightning tournament was held before the players moved on to Zagreb. Tal won, but his victory was not without incident—or humour. In his game with Yuri Averbakh he blund... Read more »
A jackal could scarcely hope to defeat a lion, but a pack of jackals, attacking from all sides, might well bring down the king of beasts. So it was in the Lidums Australian Open of 1971 when GM Lajos Portisch had the white pieces against the... Read more »
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The following chess stories appear on my personal web page, Tomorrowland. Some of them have already been published on chess.com, others have not. Click on the links to read them.
A Kind of Immortality
Chess for Grasshoppers
Chess Genie
Chess on the Internet
Chess with Mother Goose
It's About Time
Logic: The Knight's Tour
Maroczy Chess Club
New South Wales Open
Starting a Chess Club
Sweet and Sour Chess
Sydney Simuls
Xmas 2004: Natural Ability
Xmas 2005: The Santa Gambit
Xmas 2006: Die Götterdämmerung
Xmas 2008: Santa's Mate
Yogi Berra, Chess Guru
Mating Positions & Traps
The best selection of Mating Positions and Opening Traps I've seen anywhere can be found in Le Blog de la Batgirl.
They're well worth a visit.
To play through them, click on the link and locate them in the sidebar box at the right of her blog.