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Index to Kibitzer articles

Here are two index tables to all Tim Harding's Kibitzer columns, which can be found on the Chess Cafe website. New articles are posted on the second Wednesday of each month.

The series reached its tenth anniversary last year and is still going strong. First below is a table of links to the current and more recent columns with spaces for future months. Lower down is a table linking to the earlier columns from the inception of the series in 1996 to the 120th column.

Please note that a lot of the 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.

NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC
121 Jun-06 The last homecoming of Mars 133 Jun-07 Some thoughts about chess books
122 July-06 The poisoned pawn is looking tasty 134 July-07 Has the Morra Gambit been revived?
123 Aug-06 The first Oxford-Cambridge chess match 135 Aug-07 The chess career of King Canute, or not?
124 Sept-06 Another blast from the postal past 136 Sept-07

The family life of GM Gunsberg
125 Oct-06 Early games of chess by telephone 137 Oct-07 The private world of the chess problem
126 Nov-06 Chess book heaven at the Royal Dutch Library 138 Nov-07 Mostly about chess books for Christmas
127 Dec-06 Some recent chess books reviewed 139 Dec-07 How many world champions have there been?
128 Jan-07

Chess in 1907

 140 Jan-08 Chess in the year 1908
129 Feb-07 New paths in the Spanish Marshall 141 Feb-08 Bobby Fischer R. I. P.
130 Mar-07 Snippets from chess history 142 Mar-08 Trials of a touring chess master: Zukertort in Dublin, 1879
131 Apr-07 The poisoned pawn proved digestible 143 Apr-08 Title not yet decided (To be posted 9 April.)
132 May-07 The world's greatest chess library 144 May-08 Title not yet decided (To be posted 14 May.)

Below is a linked table of the first 120 columns.

NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC
1 Jun-96 Frankenstein and Dracula at the Chessboard 61 June-01 Desert Island Chess Books
2 Jul-96 Noteboom Or Abrahams: Whose Variation Is It Anyway? 62 July-01 The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 1)
3 Aug-96 The Two Worlds Of Correspondence Chess 63 Aug-01 The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 2)
4 Sep-96 Time To Gamble On A Gambit 64 Sep-01 Swansong of the Giuoco Piano (part 1)
5 Oct-96 Two Knights Defence, The Amazing Counter-Attack 65 Oct-01 The Giuoco Piano (part 2): the case for the defence
6 Nov-96 The Lost Heroes Of Chess 66 Nov-01 Shakhmatny Bulletin: an old friend revisited
7 Dec-96 Kilkenny Open 67 Dec-01 I have seen the future - and it works!
8 Jan-97 The Kibitzer Turns The Clock Back [to 1896-97] 68 Jan-02 One Hundred Years Ago: chess in 1902
9 Feb-97 Power Play In The Correspondence Chess Opening 69 Feb-02 The Guioco Piano on Trial: The Summing-Up
10 Mar-97 The Kibitzer Goes To War 70 Mar-02 The Guioco Piano on Trial: White wins the case!
11 Apr-97 The Kibitzer And The Even More Complete Najdorf 71 Apr-02 Is the Najdorf poisoned pawn edible?
12 May-97 Chess Computers Aren't Really So Clever 72 May-02 The not-so-fine art of game annotation
13 Jun-97 Anyone for the Franco-Benoni? 73 June-02 A golden jubilee of British chess
14 Jul-97 Winning By One Tempo: Clever or Not? 74 July-02 A glass of Scotch
15 Aug-97 We're Going On An Elephant Hunt 75 Aug-02 A second dram of the Scotch Gambit
16 Sep-97 A Difficult Postal Game 76 Sept-02 Materialism in chess
17 Oct-97 Chess Games Belong To The World 77 Oct-02 Does chess have a future?
18 Nov-97 Bobby Fischer, 25 Years On 78 Nov-02 Not quite winning with the Allgaier Gambit
19 Dec-97 How Stands the "Faj"? 79 Dec-02 Last rites for the Allgaier Gambit?
20 Jan-98 One Hundred Years Ago: Head-to-Head in Vienna 80 Jan-03 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1903
21 Feb-98 Dracula has risen from the Grave - or has he? 81 Feb-03 A Blast From The Postal Past
22 Mar-98 Putting Dracula back in his coffin 82 Mar-03 Interview with a (Chess-playing) Vampire
23 Apr-98 Who is the real World Champion? 83 Apr-03 Once more unto the Urusov, dear friends, once more...
24 May-98 Has The Marshall Attack Been Refuted On The Internet? 84 May-03 A Little Tutorial on PGN
25 Jun-98 Who Dunst It? 85 June-03 How Sokolsky Played the Sokolsky
26 Jul-98 Who was the strongest Irish player of all time? 86 July-03 Significant Games in the Sokolsky Opening
27 Aug-98 What exactly is the Bishops Opening? 87 Aug-03 Who was Winawer?
28 Sep-98 The Eternal Appeal Of The Urusov Gambit 88 Sept-03 Goodbye to the Friendly Orang-Utan
29 Oct-98 Is The Urusov Gambit Sound? 89 Oct-03 The Evans Gambit (Part 1): The Search for Truth in the Evans Gambit
30 Nov-98 He could have been a contender... [Hermans Matisons] 90 Nov-03 The Evans Gambit (Part 2): Chigorin's Experiences with the Evans Gambit
31 Dec-98 Bring Back Free Castling! 91 Dec-03 How Much Longer Can Man Match the Computer?
32 Jan-99 100 Years Ago: The Return of Lasker 92 Jan-04 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1904
33 Feb-99 Some Openings Topics Revisited 93 Feb-04 Correspondence Chess at a Crossroads
34 Mar-99 The Openings at New York 1924, pt. 1 94 Mar-04 Is There Such a Thing as "Chess Culture"?
35 Apr-99 NY 1924 Revisited: The Closed Openings 95 Apr-04 Was there a "Golden Age" of Correspondence Chess?
36 May-99 Transpositions 96 May-04 Introduction to the Pierce Gambit
37 Jun-99 Have a hack with the Hennig-Schara 97 June-04 Some Theory of the Pierce Gambit
38 Jul-99 Hennig-Schara Gambit Revisited 98 July-04 Playing the "What If...?" Game
39 Aug-99 The Vampire Gambit: Can We Bury It Now? [Halasz Gambit] 99 Aug-04 Berserkers and Logicians
40 Sep-99 Is Khalifman the real World Champion? 100 Sept-04 The changes I have seen
41 Oct-99 A royal march to death or glory 101 Oct-04 It's all down in Black and White
42 Nov-99 The Cold Heaven of Rook Endings 102 Nov-04 The end of the 'Black and White' column
43 Dec-99 Thoughts on the Millennium 103 Dec-04 The Center Game takes Center Stage
44 Jan-00 100 Years Ago: Chess events in 1900 104 Jan-05 The chess world in the year 1905
45 Feb '00 New thoughts on Power Play in the Chess Opening 105 Feb-05 Chess Treasures at the British Library
46 Mar-00 Interesting Byways in the Classic Open Games 106 Mar-05 Amos Burn revisited (a review of Rochard Forster's book)
47 Apr-00 Remembrance of Chess Past 107 Apr-05 The Pierce Brothers and the 'English Mechanic'
48 May-00 A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 1) 108 May-05 World Champions play correspondence chess
49 Jun-00 A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 2) 109 Jun-05 Queens of Chess: not deadlier than the male?
50 Jul-00 Forty Years A Kibitzer 110 Jul-05 The first Ladies International of 1897 (part 1: setting the scene & early rounds)
51 Aug-00 A pot-pourri of d4 openings 111 Aug-05

The Ladies International (part 2)
52 Sep-00 Remembering Cenek Kottnauer 112 Sep-05  The house of the setting sun (New Orleans and chess)
53 Oct-00 It's One Small Step For A Pawn... 113 Oct-05  A tale of two conferences (ICCF & KWA)
54 Nov-00 Playing the Budapest in Budapest 114 Nov-05 Open games revisited: the Two Knights
55 Dec-00 A Portion of Sugar Tart 115 Dec-05 Two Knights Defence revisited: the 4 d4 lines
56 Jan-01 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1901 116 Jan-06 The chess world in the year 1906
57 Feb '01 FIDE, the World Championship and the art of Boxing Promotion 117 Feb-06 In the footsteps of Harold Murray
58 Mar-01 Two Knights Defence: see the wood, not the trees 118 Mar-06 The Italian Game revisited
59 Apr-01 Two Knights Defence without Tears: Part 2 119 Apr-06 The Evans Gambit reloaded
60 May-01 Two Knights Defence Part3: Berliner Variation Busted? 120 May-06 Sir George Thomas: the early years

© All Kibitzer articles are copyright Tim Harding.