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15 years of The Kibitzer

By Dr Tim Harding

The Kibitzer is a monthly column that I've been writing since June 1996 for the excellent magazine website, The Chess Cafe. With the publication earlier this year of my 180th article in the series, I completed 15 years of writing for it.

New columns are posted on the second Wednesday of each month. The series deals with opening theory, current affairs in chess, historical topics, or whatever I feel like writing about!

I have provided here an updated index to the respective texts of the Kibitzer articles so far, which can be found at the Chess Cafe Archives.

The most recent articles are archived in PDF format

Please do not expect me to answer queries about old articles as (a) I am very busy; (b) I may no longer have the original source materual to hand; (c) My views and chess theory can change with time.

Also note that many columns have topical references, and may indicate links and downloadable files that are no longer available on the World Wide Web.

The first 51 columns are available as textfiles in the Chess Cafe archives while more recent ones are preserved there with formatting in PDF.

Another option is to download a zip-file with all the Kibitzer columns from the Chess Cafe website.

 

What is a Kibitzer?

A kibitzer is somebody who watches a game (usually of chess or bridge) and from time to time makes comments which may be apposite, and/or which may annoy the players...