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Black to play and win.
25.07.2025 22:13 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Young chess star Shambavi Hariharan sparkles at the English Championships. oxfordcitychessclub.com/news/
25.07.2025 12:07 — 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0Me too.
21.07.2025 17:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
George Thomas reached two #Wimbledon semi-finals and four quarter-finals between 1907 and 1912.
13.07.2025 09:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Sir George Thomas on chess obsession and Rubinstein's deathwish. www.kingpinchess.net/2025/07/a-cr...
09.07.2025 15:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Chess and the Nazis www.kingpinchess.net/2025/07/ches...
03.07.2025 10:25 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A call from Leonard Barden saves the world championship match. The Field, 13 July 1972
28.06.2025 14:03 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1Well played!
17.06.2025 22:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
That's impressive. In case you missed this article (1 of 2): minorpieces.uk/2025/04/30/m...
17.06.2025 21:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sir George Thomas at Wimbledon 1920s
Sir George Thomas, Beckenham 1912
Sir George Thomas won the mixed doubles at #QueensClub with Dorothy Chambers in 1908. As well as excelling in tennis, he was Britain's most successful badminton player and won the British chess championship twice. He was one of Britain's greatest sportsmen.
17.06.2025 13:36 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 0Hitler’s lean to the right
10.05.2025 12:55 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Only the rooks
10.05.2025 09:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Pisa, Italy
10.05.2025 09:13 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Remembering Tony Miles (1955-2001), Britain's first grandmaster, who would have turned 70 today.
23.04.2025 21:14 — 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
Manley wooden chess set. c.£50.
19.04.2025 16:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Asprey leather Hanover chess set. £5,750. @financialtimes.com
19.04.2025 14:15 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
Gideon Barcza
Gyula Breyer
Géza Maróczy
Hanging out with Hungarian chess chums.
13.04.2025 21:26 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Soldiers playing chess during Spanish Civil War 1939
Robert Capa
Republican soldiers playing chess behind the front line in Madrid, Nov/Dec 1936. Photo by Robert Capa, who preferred poker. capacenter.hu/en/
13.04.2025 17:52 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
From @privateeyenews.bsky.social
04.04.2025 21:43 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
But why would anyone do that?
20.03.2025 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Badminton Museum
Yonex All England 2025
Sir George Thomas
Splendid day at #YAE2025 as a guest of the ever affable Geoff Hinder. The marvellous Mairs won again for @badmintonengland.bsky.social Would have pleased Sir George.
13.03.2025 21:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
These books are superb.
03.03.2025 10:38 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
From a fine 1972 profile of Boris Spassky by Leonard Barden.
27.02.2025 23:25 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
'My life did not pan out properly', an interview with Boris Spassky when he was 60. www.kingpinchess.net/2007/11/no-r...
27.02.2025 23:01 — 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Shambavi Hariharan wins her Woman Candidate Master title.
It’s official, well done Shambavi! @englishchess.bsky.social
11.02.2025 16:49 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Sparks
First record.
06.02.2025 23:02 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
From the latest @privateeyenews.bsky.social
06.02.2025 18:31 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
[smoker's cough] "I believe it all starts with the love for wood"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E48r...
The wrong trousers: how sporting dress codes can create an image problem | Emma John
09.01.2025 13:23 — 👍 36 🔁 2 💬 6 📌 2Never got this level of insight in the Other Place. Stalemate immortality for me please (I'm sure the wife won't mind).
01.01.2025 18:23 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
