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Chess

Blood on the sand Raymond Keene T his year's Hastings tournament was transformed by the generosity of Kevin Pakenham and the board of Foreign and Colonial in raising fees and......

Competition

Disprover(b)s Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1454 you were in- vited to supply a narrative poem disproving a proverb. A multiplicity of reasons — the mind- numbing cold, the......