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For almost 30 years, the pioneering chess resource The Week in Chess has pushed out its weekly content, even before the internet was readily available in numerous major countries. Founded and spearheaded by Mark Crowther, it has managed to survive the decades of change and evolution, always fighting the good fight, and this week reached the milestone 1500th issue. Our warmest congratulations!
England's chess body expects the government to back the national team financially for the first time.
The shadow chancellor, a former junior chess champion, said green spaces in her constituency would ‘love’ to receive one of the boards.
There were three competitions in the British Chess Solving Championship. Chess problemist Brian Stephenson, who for twenty-five years directed the Championship, and has directed several World Chess Solving Championships, shows us three of the competition studies. It is your opportunity to join the competition and test your own solving skills. Or at least enjoy some very clever chess compositions.
Whatever your idea of a traditional chess event is, it’s probably nothing like London’s ChessFest. While in most tournaments, the action takes place behind closed doors, accessible only to knowledgeable insiders and connoisseurs of the game, ChessFest turns all that upside down. This is chess writ large in the open air, performed in full public view, with mass participation the central goal. If you are in or anywhere near London, you should definitely pay ChessFest a visit. | Photos by Andrew Moss