David Howell is on a roll. At the halfway stage of the British Championship he looks set to retain his…

Alexander Petroff (1794-1867) is often remembered as the first great Russian chess master. He became the strongest player in Russia…

Sadly, Michael Adams, for many years Britain’s leading grandmaster, will not be playing in the British Championship, which starts next…

Fabiano Caruana notched the result of his life at the Sinquefield Trophy in St Louis last year. Since then he…

I have a particular affection for Chinese involvement in mind sports. In 1981 I was invited as the first western…

Last week, world champion Magnus Carlsen suffered a devastating defeat in the first round of the Stavanger super tournament when…

In serious competitive chess the play is regulated by time limits for completion of the moves. In the mid-19th century,…

A new book, Opening Repertoire: The Nimzo-Indian and Bogo-Indian by Christof Seilecki (Everyman Chess), focuses on the ever popular Nimzo-Indian…

This week I conclude my coverage of the Fidé (World Chess Federation) Grand Prix which finished last month in Khanty-Mansiysk.…

Boris Gulko, celebrated both as a grandmaster and a former Soviet dissident, has recently completed his great trilogy of instructional…

There are some odd opening moves in chess, such as 1 a3 and 1 g4. The former was used by…

The former world champion Vladimir Kramnik recently espoused an opening system which I elaborated in a tournament in Germany in 1975.…

During the World Championship qualifier of 1959, grandmaster Pal Benko wore dark glasses to counter the hypnotic gaze of his…