23 AUGUST 1986, page 37

Competition

Very small talk Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1434 you were in- vited to supply a conversation involving two or more people on a social occasion and containing an awful lot of......

Chess

Bad timing Raymond Keene A s I write, the Kasparov-Karpov match at the Park Lane Hotel, London, looks like this: A pattern emerged in games 7 and 8, namely, that both players......