A business announcement: from January 1st we intend to increase our shipping charges to EU countries. This will be our first increase since 2004 and will not fully cover the real increase in costs since then, so we hope customers will not be too disappointed. Our old rules were: Shipping to European Union countries 3 […]
European Shipping Charges Read Post »
Dear Quality Chess Reader, Andrew Greet and I have just returned from the Olympiad in Khanty-Mansiysk, Siberia. Andrew was non-playing captain of the English Women’s team, who performed above expectations. I was Board 3 for the Scottish team in the Open section; we finished slightly below our seeding, despite beating all the teams we were
Quality Chess Newsletter – Marin, Bauer and lots of chess Read Post »
During the World Championship match between Topalov and Anand I annotated a game for Chess Today. As my deadline was later than the quickly published annotations on ChessBase.com by GM Anish Giri, it would have been unnatural not to relate to these. So, in the two hours at my disposal, I tried to form a
Anish Giri in Yearbook 96 Read Post »
last night at the gym I caused a bit of a stir. I returned to my locker and found that once I unlocked it, there was nothing inside. I call the manager and he started checking all the locks to see if anyone by chance had the same code. 10 minutes later we were back
Are chess players intelligent? Read Post »