A new idea in the English Opening - the #Brexit variation #chess

Loved chatting with the Guardian’s Lennard Barden, who after 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, is still writing his brilliant chess column every week - and is now a officially a record holder. Some lovely memories in this piece https://t.co/oQTOSmmpop

Happy birthday to Leonard Barden, chess correspondent of the Guardian. Leonard, a former British champion, is 96 today and continues to produce unmissable Saturday chess columns. Next month marks his 70th anniversary as Guardian chess correspondent. A truly remarkable career

Final photo-report from the Kingston Invitational Chess Tournament: GM Jakub Kosakowski (POL) finished 2 points clear of David Maycock Bates (MEX) & Ivan Valles Moreno (ESP). In the Open Norwegian FMs Jacob Templen Grave & Gunnar Lund were 1st=. https://t.co/pxzsIOPVOn

Day 4 photo-report on the #KingstonChess tournament: GM Jakub Kosakowski (POL) wins the All-Play-All with a round to spare while Gunnar Lund (NOR) leads the Open - https://t.co/po14eohBdm

As I walked to #KingstonChess this morning I took a picture of the street sculpture seen here. On arrival at the venue the next picture I took happened to be Graeme Buckley talking to Supratit Banerjee. Then later I looked at the two together... LOL

Day 3 photo-report of the #KingstonChess tournament covers rounds 5 and 6: Jakub Kosakowski (POL) 5/6; David Maycock (MEX), Ivan Valles (ESP) 4, while 15-year-old Jai Kothari (Hampton School, ENG) leads the Open - all the details https://t.co/hrVJR0Eiz9

Day 2 photo-report of the #KingstonChess tournament: rounds 3 and 4, annotations, etc. GM Jakub Kosakowski (POL) leads, David Maycock (MEX) secures the FM title, etc... https://t.co/wN0fTW1fiv

Day 1 report of the #KingstonChess tournament. The leader after two rounds is GM Jakub Kosakowski (Poland) with 2/2. In the Swiss event six players are tied on 2/2

11-year-old superstar Supratit Banerjee beating IM Peter Large in the #KingstonChess tournament. The secret of his success? He's the only pre-teen player who does NOT have a cluster of huge water bottles beside the board. Parents of chess kids, please note - less water, more Elo.

The 4th #KingstonChess Invitational is underway. The first photo-report is posted, covering the opening ceremony, tributes to Gavin Wall & Paul Durrant, and the opening moves made by the Mayor of Kingston @RBKmayor @KingstonChess

Mickey Adams first won the British Chess Championship the year before Magnus Carlsen was born - 1989. He's just won it again, for the ninth time: an astonishing achievement.

Mary Rudge won first prize at the first women's international chess tournament in London in 1897. Her prize was £60... which is the equivalent of £6,756 in 2025. More about the tournament here: https://t.co/8jJ32WK9nY

New at BritBase: a collection of 1,206 games played by Sir George Thomas - even allowing for the inclusion of 164 stubs, that makes it the largest collection of his games available to date. https://t.co/iFEV6PKPpu

All the games from Nigel Short's Lancaster simul (21 June 2025 - he scored +23=2-0) are available at BritBase:

Whenever I walk past this street sculpture in Kingston, I like to think the hippo and the rabbit are playing chess and that the hippo is saying "why must I lose to this idiot?" #kingstonuponthames

Great to see that our April issue is out and available at @ChessAndBridge! The 10th world champion is on the cover, with @TelegraphChess, @DanielKingChess, @AF4C_FirstMove and @johnchess all paying tribute to "The name is Boris, Boris Spassky". #chess

The Varsity chess match dates back to 1873 and this shot from the 2025 match captures some of the Victorian elegance of a century and a half ago. The Polish player (right) would be my nomination for the best dressed player, closely followed by his French adversary.

Cambridge won the 143rd Varsity chess match - the world's oldest regular chess fixture - on Saturday. Consolation for Oxford: their top board Tom O'Gorman scored his 5th straight win - a record for the match. Commentators GM Daniel Fernandez and @NatashaRegan123 📸 @johnchess

Games, report and photos from the 143rd Varsity chess match on Saturday at the RAC Clubhouse, Pall Mall, London... https://t.co/ZBFEufJGdI ... plus guest of honour GM David Howell, coming to a TV screen near you this evening as chess returns to the BBC.

Boris Spassky with a young British chess fan, Hay-on-Wye, 2008. I confess I rooted for Fischer in 1972 but over the course of time Boris supplanted Bobby as my all-time chess hero. Proud to have shaken his hand. RIP, Boris.