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No. 1686: Poem For A Pair

You are invited to write a poem in celebra- tion of a famous pair — such as Flanagan and Allen, Hewitt and Macmillan, De- benham and Freebody, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.......

Chess

New dog, old tricks Raymond Keene A s Nigel Short cleverly demonstrated in his recent match against Jon Speelman, there is still some venom concealed in the apparently exhausted......

Competition

Quiz Jaspistos I n Competition No. 1683 I set you four posers. My awareness of these is due to the late Professor Ivan Morris, who challenged me with the first three, and to the......