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As it is Halloween, here is a Halloween Gambit to celebrate. While played during a rapid event, both players were pretty decent, so it may t...

You can learn a lot just by paying attention. Or in the world of chess, by studying the classics. This was made particularly clear to me at ...

The Steinitz Gambit usually occurs in the Vienna Opening, after 1.e4 e5 2.Nc3 Nc6 3.f4 exf4 4.d4!? Qh4+ 5.Ke2 It is correctly named, as Ste...

If you aren't satisfied with the current crop of chess clocks, you can always build your own. Using some inexpensive electronics, plus a...

As Australia lacks a proper national team competition, it looks as though the 4NCL (UK) is the next best thing. I have a connection with the...

One of the sins we commit as chess players is taking advice as 'read'. For as long as I can remember 9.d4 is the main line of the Ru...

At the chess Olympiads I have been involved with, there has always been a little bit of rivalry between the 'small' Oceania federati...