Simaginfan
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Love Chess, cricket, and all living things - beautiful or ugly. Hates rude people and haters.
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A Fairy Tail Of Stourbridge Junction
December 16, 2025 at 9:48 AM
A Fairy Tail Of Stourbridge Junction
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Welcome to #Hedgewatch Sunny, we’re delighted to have you on the Team.
Happy Hedgewatching 🤗🌳
Happy Hedgewatching 🤗🌳
December 15, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Welcome to #Hedgewatch Sunny, we’re delighted to have you on the Team.
Happy Hedgewatching 🤗🌳
Happy Hedgewatching 🤗🌳
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As it's nearly Christmas this week's puzzle introduces you to Swiss GM and coach Noël Studer.
As it's nearly Christmas this week's puzzle introduces you to Swiss GM and coach Noël Studer.
Chess Puzzle of the Week (370)
The impending festive season had me thinking about the Swiss GM Noël Studer. Studer retired from competitive play in 2021 when still in his mid twenties to become a coach, author and content creato…
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December 15, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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As it's nearly Christmas this week's puzzle introduces you to Swiss GM and coach Noël Studer.
As it's nearly Christmas this week's puzzle introduces you to Swiss GM and coach Noël Studer.
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Augusta Talboys was a chess-playing artist whose paintings sometimes featured kittens on the chessboard. Discover more about her life, art and chess here.
Augusta Talboys was a chess-playing artist whose paintings sometimes featured kittens on the chessboard. Discover more about her life, art and chess here.
Minor Pieces 95: Agnes Augusta Talboys
Let’s return to the 1913 British Championships in Cheltenham. A couple of months after the event, the prizes for Brilliant Games were announced. Surrey Mirror 17 October 1913 Here’s the…
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December 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Augusta Talboys was a chess-playing artist whose paintings sometimes featured kittens on the chessboard. Discover more about her life, art and chess here.
Augusta Talboys was a chess-playing artist whose paintings sometimes featured kittens on the chessboard. Discover more about her life, art and chess here.
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Women In Chess According To Potter.
Afternoon everyone. My long suffering - and believe me, they have my sympathies - readers will be glad to hear that this is, by my standards, a quick blog! However, a fair bit of text, and then I will...
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December 12, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
*3rd breakfast theory
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
*3rd breakfast theory
December 7, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Good morning & welcome to Roast Dinner Day
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
*3rd breakfast theory
Good things come to those who believe, better things come to those who are patient, and the best things come to those who don't give up.
*3rd breakfast theory
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A Phenomenal Move And A Giant Killer. Some Correspondence Chess Stuff.
Good afternoon to all my friends around the world. ''Meanwhile, far away, in another part of town'' as Bob Dylan wrote, I mentioned a move that is regarded as one of the most amazing ever played. I th...
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December 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Did you find the best continuation in Monday's puzzle? Click here to find out.
Did you find the best continuation in Monday's puzzle? Click here to find out.
Chess Puzzle of the Week (368): Solution
The game Balaji – Roe concluded from this position: 20… Ngxf2+! 21. Rxf2 Qh3+!! 22. Kg1 Nxf2 23. Kxf2 Qxh2+ 24. Kf3 Re4! 25. Bb2 g5! and White resigned. I’ll give you 5 points for…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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Did you find the best continuation in Monday's puzzle? Click here to find out.
Did you find the best continuation in Monday's puzzle? Click here to find out.
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OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
December 5, 2025 at 8:08 PM
OTD in 1994 The Budapest Memorandum was signed. It remains the most spectacular waste of paper, ink, and geopolitical optimism in the history of humankind.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
The deal was simple: Ukraine disarms. Russia, the UK, and the USA promised, in return, to guarantee our security and territorial integrity.
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November 30, 2025 at 5:48 PM
GOTD. Doing some work for a blog. This is a quite extraordinary save!
November 30, 2025 at 12:54 PM
GOTD. Doing some work for a blog. This is a quite extraordinary save!
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Night night sweet dreamies
I admire people who’ve lived through hard things and didn’t let the pain harden their hearts.
Let’s be those people.
Always
I admire people who’ve lived through hard things and didn’t let the pain harden their hearts.
Let’s be those people.
Always
November 27, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Night night sweet dreamies
I admire people who’ve lived through hard things and didn’t let the pain harden their hearts.
Let’s be those people.
Always
I admire people who’ve lived through hard things and didn’t let the pain harden their hearts.
Let’s be those people.
Always
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My latest Minor Piece features Annie Mabel Gooding of Cheltenham, who played in ladies' chess tournaments over a period of 25 years, and had draws against Blackburne, Lasker and Capablanca to her name.
My latest Minor Piece features Annie Mabel Gooding of Cheltenham, who played in ladies' chess tournaments over a period of 25 years, and had draws against Blackburne, Lasker and Capablanca to her name.
Minor Pieces 94: Annie Mabel Gooding
Come with me, if you will, to the beautiful island of Barbados, noted particularly, to many of us, for its record in producing world class cricketers. Having previously been captured and then aband…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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My latest Minor Piece features Annie Mabel Gooding of Cheltenham, who played in ladies' chess tournaments over a period of 25 years, and had draws against Blackburne, Lasker and Capablanca to her name.
My latest Minor Piece features Annie Mabel Gooding of Cheltenham, who played in ladies' chess tournaments over a period of 25 years, and had draws against Blackburne, Lasker and Capablanca to her name.
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This beautiful pocket-sized 'biographical portrait of two brilliant young chess masters' Harry Pillsbury (US) & Rudolf Charousek (Czech/Hungarian), 1914 for #ChessTuesday From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social
November 25, 2025 at 10:00 AM
This beautiful pocket-sized 'biographical portrait of two brilliant young chess masters' Harry Pillsbury (US) & Rudolf Charousek (Czech/Hungarian), 1914 for #ChessTuesday From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social
GOTD. The wonderful Zagorovsky was not only a c.c. legend - he was a fine player over the board as well. A forgotten gem.
November 16, 2025 at 4:43 PM
GOTD. The wonderful Zagorovsky was not only a c.c. legend - he was a fine player over the board as well. A forgotten gem.
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Aivar Gipslis Revisited. Part Two. Plus Some Bonuses!
Back with part two. This will be quite long, so usual advice - just drop in and out when you have time and enjoy what is here. The header picture is now a well known one of Tal and Gipslis. Taken in 1...
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November 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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♟️ This #ChessTuesday we have a #throwback to the 83rd @englishchess.bsky.social Championships held at the University of #Nottingham & a great shot of the Notts #Chess Association. See anyone you know? FRom the ECF Library.
@librarydmu.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
@librarydmu.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
♟️ This #ChessTuesday we have a #throwback to the 83rd @englishchess.bsky.social Championships held at the University of #Nottingham & a great shot of the Notts #Chess Association. See anyone you know? FRom the ECF Library.
@librarydmu.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
@librarydmu.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
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A 1913 photograph shows two players whose combined lives spanned 171 years. Discover their stories here.
A 1913 photograph shows two players whose combined lives spanned 171 years. Discover their stories here.
November 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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A 1913 photograph shows two players whose combined lives spanned 171 years. Discover their stories here.
A 1913 photograph shows two players whose combined lives spanned 171 years. Discover their stories here.
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Aivar Gipslis Revisited. Part One.
A nice picture in my previous blogs of Koblencs and Gipslis Team Tal. put me in mind of the Latvian trio who ruled chess in that country from the mid 1950's onwards - up until Shirov. Tal, Gipslis and...
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November 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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Remembering all the animals #purplepoppy #remembrancesunday 💜
November 9, 2025 at 4:16 PM