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Tuesday, 21 March, 2023

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Tuesday, 21 March, 2023

Competitive chess returns to parliament this week
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find the win that the ex-US champion missed
Tuesday, 14 March, 2023

Chess: Draw glut at European championship
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find the GM’s winning move
Monday, 6 March, 2023

Chess: English amateur defeats Ukrainian champion in style
Puzzle: can you win like P ConNers?
Monday, 27 February, 2023

Oxford v Cambridge reaches 150 years not out
Puzzle: what did the Dutch master miss?
Wednesday, 22 February, 2023

England chess No 1 Adams conquers Cambridge after scare at start
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — how did the grandmaster force checkmate?
Tuesday, 14 February, 2023

Calling strong retired chess players — your chance to represent England
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find the win in the battle of world champions
Monday, 6 February, 2023

Chess: Fide raises profile of women’s game with Grand Prix
Puzzle: how to break down Black’s defences?
Tuesday, 31 January, 2023

Anish Giri wins at Tata Steel Wijk aan Zee as Magnus Carlsen’s late rally falls short
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you win the battle of queens and rooks?
Tuesday, 24 January, 2023

Carlsen fights back from two straight defeats at Wijk
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — can you checkmate like the Bletchley codebreaker?
Tuesday, 17 January, 2023

Britain’s route to grandmaster for rising chess talents
In this week’s puzzle — find the GM’s hidden winning moves
Monday, 9 January, 2023

Carlsen takes on the young guard on Saturday at the ‘chess Wimbledon’
Puzzle: find White’s winning move
Tuesday, 3 January, 2023

Carlsen performs a treble triple as Norway’s chess world No 1 excels at speed
In this week’s puzzle: White failed to find the best move — can you do better?
Wednesday, 28 December, 2022

Hastings chess tradition still strong after more than a century
In this week’s puzzle: find White’s hidden checkmate in two
Tuesday, 20 December, 2022

America’s Nakamura defeats world No1 Carlsen in online speed epic
Plus: in this week’s puzzle — find Carlsen’s winning move
Monday, 12 December, 2022

Magnus Carlsen to play world rapid and blitz starting Xmas Day
Puzzle: can you solve this picturesque mate in two?
Monday, 5 December, 2022

Seven-year-old achieves historic performance in UK women’s blitz
Puzzle: how can White strike first?
Monday, 28 November, 2022

John Nunn wins World 65-plus Championship in golden year for England seniors
Puzzle: how did the English amateur checkmate the US grandmaster?
Monday, 21 November, 2022

Carlsen wins seven mini-matches straight in online Tour final
Puzzle: White to move and win
Monday, 14 November, 2022

Shreyas Royal, 13, breaks UK record for youngest ever grandmaster result
Puzzle: find White’s immediately winning move
Wednesday, 9 November, 2022

England over-50s win European gold
Puzzle: how could Black have beaten Carlsen?
Tuesday, 1 November, 2022

Chess: Hans Niemann in action again this week at St Louis
In this week’s puzzle: White lost. How could he have won?
Tuesday, 25 October, 2022

Chess: Niemann sues Carlsen and others for $100mn — what happens next?
In this week’s puzzle: find the imaginative route to victory
Thursday, 20 October, 2022

Hans Niemann sues over chess cheating claims
Grandmaster, 19, accuses champion Magnus Carlsen and others of slander in affair that has rocked game’s elite echelons
Thursday, 20 October, 2022

Chess: Hans Niemann recovers well in St Louis, while 13-year-old becomes England’s youngest master
Puzzle: can you mate in three in 15 minutes?