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April is by far the busiest month on my chess calendar (although March is almost as crowded). With the Doeberl Cup and the Sydney Internatio...

Round 7 of the ANU Masters saw the players return to action after week off. The Ikeda v Chibnall game was over fairly quickly after Chibnall...

The Four Knights is one of those openings that was popular until the 1920's , when the Hyper-Moderns began to change the way we looked a...

Another book I picked up at the Lifeline Bookfair was "A Short History of Chess" by Henry A. Davidson. While I haven't read th...

The ACT junior chess scene is undergoing a little bit of a generational change this year, with the top players of the last couple of years s...

That great Canberra tradition, the Lifeline Bookfair, kicked off again today. Normally I am an early arriver, trying to get there before the...

Watching cricket seems to have trumped blogging as a priority this evening. Normal service should be resumed tomorrow!