… we knew how to blunder Last week I wrote of the golden age for chess that grew out of the Fischer/Korchnoi challenges for the World Championship happening to coincide with the cold war and a Soviet Union that wielded chess as an ideological...

Mikhail Tal describes meeting Bobby Fischer at the Varna Olympiad, 1962*:- I asked him all sorts of questions, and in conclusion, as we were approaching the hotel, I asked, “You’ll soon turn twenty – are you thinking of marrying?” He looked...

Chess Training Pocket Book, Alburt, Chess Information and Research Center, 2000

Here’s something you won’t hear very often:- The Seventies was a golden age It sounds unlikely I know but it's true, as far as our favourite game is concerned anyway. Yes the clothes were ridiculous; yes the people were alarmingly hairy; yes the...

[Our pedagogical series in which we look at a portion of a game I played recently in which some obvious tactic was overlooked. Readers are invited to practice their skill by seeing if they can spot what was missed.] Horton - Pérez Puyal, individual...