3 OCTOBER 1998, page 68

The Macallan

COMPETITION Bouts-rimes Jaspistos IN COMPETITION NO. 2053 you were invited to write a poem with 15 rhyme- words in a certain order. The rhyme-words came from Browning's poem,......

Chess

Best by . . . Raymond Keene KASPAROV'S projected match against Alexei Shirov has collapsed, with the Spanish ex-organisers running around hurl- ing imprecations at one another.......