What Makes a Chess Game Brilliant?
Searching for Consensus
A hot discussion in social media about a spectacular game from the recent Lorca International caught my interest. The game in question … Read the rest
spraggettonchess Blog
Today’s Terrible Ideas (for FREE!)
How are you today? In the spirit of having some light fun toying around with the absurd and not so absurd, I present a collection … Read the rest
Looking ahead
2020 Vision
As the year 2019 enters its final hours, I want to take this opportunity to thank my readers for their continued loyalty, and … Read the rest
Climate Fucking, Chess, Fide, SEX and other NONSENSE!
Searching for Greta’s Passion
Wow! Passion. How do you define it? Do you REALLY want to define it? Don’t you know by now that PASSION … Read the rest
Today’s Winning Attitude!
Piercing Question
The bonny Russian model Alex Lolly. Her eyes pierce thru you like a hot knife thru butter…she asks: ”Why are you not … Read the rest
Russia to challenge WADA ban at CAS
Yury Ganus fears the worse
While it was expected that Russia would challenge the WADA 4-year ban of its athletes at the Court of Arbitration … Read the rest
Today’s Winning Tail!
Mystery Girl
Stunning photo by Moscow-based Russian photographer Sergey Gokk. Model is the lovely Miroslava Orlova. Definitely worth taking a look at his… Read the rest
Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
Re-defining Cheating
The good old days when cheating methods were simpler and more conspicuous than in the present day. I remember well the discussions about … Read the rest
Le Chocolat Noir
Hidden Desires
Le Chocolat Noir is a one man musical group (Electronica/Eclectic/Snyth) created in 2006 and hailing from Zagreb. Read more on FaceBook. What I … Read the rest
2019 Rapid & Blitz WC underway
FIDE Continues to Flirt with Repressive Saudis
Saudi Arabia is one of the world’s most repressive regimes. Yemen and complete disregard for Human Rights. Women … Read the rest
Happy Holiday Season!
Wow! What a busy last couple of days! Today and tomorrow I will try to catch up with new material for this blog and answer … Read the rest
Monday, Nepo, Coffee & Potpourri
Monday Coffee
How are you today? Xmas in just a couple of days and the end the year not long afterwards…I don’t know about you … Read the rest
Granny & The Ice Hole
Cold Chess!
We have all played chess in some pretty bad conditions from time to time and no doubt complained about it, but this Russian … Read the rest
Today’s Vintage Chess Humor
From the November 1968 ChessReview magazine, which I suppose correctly sums up the then prevailing attitude of 50-ish year old chess playing males towards women … Read the rest
Shirov & the Advance French
Another French Bites the Dust…
While Alexi Shirov has a number of good systems to play against the ever-popular French Defence, his most ambitious line … Read the rest
