27 AUGUST 1988, page 40

Chess

Secret weapon Raymond Keene J on Speelman, whom I regarded as the slight underdog before the World Cham- pionship quarter-final began, has over- whelmed Nigel Short within the......

Competition

Undespondent Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1537 you were in- vited to pen a poetic paean on Slough to offset Betjeman's rude lines on the subject. It was last October that a......