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29.01.2012 – Correspondents often send the Editor of Chess Notes forgotten brilliancies published in old newspaper columns, and here he shows half a dozen such games. They include queen sacrifices and some moves which look like misprints, and they range from a lightning skirmish to a complex battle between Nimzowitsch and Marshall. Enjoy these entertaining games.
 
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01.01.2012 – Exactly 30 years ago the Editor of Chess Notes began his forum devoted to history and lore, a miscellany of forgotten games, compositions, biographies, photographs, quotes, enigmas and exposés, scrutinizing without fear or favour the saints and sinners of chess, the champions, amateurs, scholars and reprobates. Here is a guide to help readers continue to enjoy the mass of unique material.
 
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25.12.2011 – It seems that the exchange of Christmas greetings cards has never been a particularly common practice in the chess world, and such ephemeral items from yesteryear are quite difficult to find. The Editor of Chess Notes has brought together a selection of cards sent by prominent figures, including Géza Maróczy, Edward Lasker and Irving Chernev. It is time to revel in some Yuletide nostalgia.
 
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12.12.2011 – Chess can be an exceptionally fast or slow game. Here, the Editor of Chess Notes examines some cases where an inordinate amount of time was consumed over a single move, sometimes even in the opening. Not that the evidence is always clear. As so often in chess lore, the published accounts may contain contradictions, misunderstandings and errors. More investigative work ...
 
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12.11.2011 – Marking the tenth anniversary of the death of Tony Miles, at the age of only 46, the Editor of Chess Notes discloses some tantalizing brief extracts from his correspondence with the great British master. They include discussion of the 22-board blindfold exhibition which Miles gave in Roetgen, Germany in 1984. All the game-scores were passed on by Miles for safekeeping and are given here now.
 
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03.11.2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes turns his attention to one of chess history’s most famous games, a 15-move miniature from the nineteenth century which features ‘Boden’s Mate’. The books contain a large amount of contradictory information about when the game was played, and a particular mystery is the exact identity of Boden’s opponent. The chess historian investigates.
 
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16.10.2011 – Which is the most difficult form of chess writing? Of course, each kind presents its own problems and pitfalls, but the Editor of Chess Notes focuses here on a genre which hardly anyone ventures upon nowadays although it used to be highly popular: an attempt to capture the essence of a chess master’s appearance and demeanour with some well-crafted words, in a pen-portrait.
 
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03.10.2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes puts forward a range of practical suggestions for authors and columnists. How to make the best use of limited time and resources? What to write about and what to avoid? And perhaps the trickiest question of all: how to react when it all goes wrong? For chess writers everywhere, we proudly present the ultimate survival guide.
 
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23.09.2011 – Many forgotten interviews with Alekhine have been reproduced over the years by the Editor of Chess Notes. We witness the great champion discussing his chess rivals and predecessors, plans, training routines, blindfold exploits, family background, education, personal lifestyle, pastimes, travel, politics and writings, including the notorious anti-Semitic articles published in the Nazi press in 1941.
 
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02.09.2011 – The Editor of Chess Notes has put together an extensive selection of chess-related cartoons and comic strips from the past century or so. They include satire, science fiction, a war adventure, a depiction of Pillsbury riding an elephant, Capablanca’s life story, an account of the 1972 Spassky v Fischer match in Reykjavik and, to begin with, two old cartoons about cheating at chess.
 
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24.07.2011 – Few old game-scores of lightning chess (also known as rapid transit and blitz) have survived, but the Editor of Chess Notes presents a number of specimens, most of which were played at ten seconds per move and all of them before the 1930s. The masters featured include Alekhine, Bogoljubow, Capablanca, Janowsky, Kupchik, Marshall and Tartakower, and the play contains several brilliancies.
 
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17.07.2011 – The first two decades of the twentieth century saw many initiatives to create bodies with names such as the International Chess Masters’ Association, International Chess Association, Supreme Court, Chess Council and, eventually, International Chess Federation. The Editor of Chess Notes reports on these pre-FIDE attempts to organize the chess world and, in particular, the world championship.