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8 December 2016
This wide-ranging series of articles by Tim Harding began in 1996 at the Chess Cafe website and ran until May 2015 when that website effectively closed down.
My index to more recent articles is available on another page.
Below is a table of links to the articles from August 2010 up to the end of 2012. Further down this page you will find a table linking to the earlier columns from the inception of the series to the 170th column.
NO. | DATE | TITLE/ TOPIC | NO. | DATE | TITLE/ TOPIC |
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171 | Aug-10 | Can the Ponzi fly again? |
186 | Nov-11 | The double life of Adolphus Zytogorski |
172 | Sept-10 | Ponziani Opening: other critical lines | 187 | Dec-11 | Adolphus Zytogorski (part 2) |
173 | Oct-10 | Farewell to Bent Larsen | 188 | Jan-12 | Chess in the years 1862 and 1912 |
174 | Nov-10 | The Myth of Celtic Chess | 189 | Feb-12 | A mixed bag of book reviews |
175 | Dec-10 | Recommendations for winter reading | 190 | Mar-12 | When two pieces beat a queen |
176 | Jan-11 | A Century Ago: Chess in the Year 1911 | 191 | Apr-12 | Correspondence Chess at a Crossroads? |
177 | Feb-11 | C. F. Smith, a forgotten Victorian expert | 192 | May-12 | An Unusual Chess Congress in Norwich |
178 | Mar-11 | New in Chess just got newer | 193 | June-12 | Anatomy of a Match |
179 | Apr-11 | Remembrance of endgames past | 194 | July-12 | Plain Man's Guide to the Kieseritzky Gambit |
180 | May-11 | Slaying the Spanish and other matters | 195 | Aug-12 | More King's Gambits for the Plain Man |
181 | June-11 | Endgames on the table | 196 | Sept-12 | Further Plain King's Gambits: miscellaneous variations |
182 | July-11 | Time to change your opening repertoire? | 197 | Oct-12 | Digitised Chess Literature - Philanthropy or Piracy? |
183 | Aug-11 | Computer chess: the state of the art | 198 | Nov-12 | Misadventures in the Aviary: Bird and his opening |
184 | Sept-11 | The earliest chess clubs | 199 | Dec-12 | Misadventures in the Aviary II: Bird's Defence to the Spanish |
185 | Oct-11 | A visit to Scheveningen | 200+ | 2013 | COLUMNS IN 2013 |
Below is a linked table of the first 170 columns.
NO. | DATE | TITLE/ TOPIC | NO. | DATE | TITLE/ TOPIC |
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1 | Jun-96 | Frankenstein and Dracula at the Chessboard | 86 | July-03 | Significant Games in the Sokolsky Opening |
2 | Jul-96 | Noteboom Or Abrahams: Whose Variation Is It Anyway? | 87 | Aug-03 | Who was Winawer? |
3 | Aug-96 | The Two Worlds Of Correspondence Chess | 88 | Sept-03 | Goodbye to the Friendly Orang-Utan |
4 | Sep-96 | Time To Gamble On A Gambit | 89 | Oct-03 | The Evans Gambit (Part 1): The Search for Truth in the Evans Gambit |
5 | Oct-96 | Two Knights Defence, The Amazing Counter-Attack | 90 | Nov-03 | The Evans Gambit (Part 2): Chigorin's Experiences with the Evans Gambit |
6 | Nov-96 | The Lost Heroes Of Chess | 91 | Dec-03 | How Much Longer Can Man Match the Computer? |
7 | Dec-96 | Kilkenny Open | 92 | Jan-04 | One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1904 |
8 | Jan-97 | The Kibitzer Turns The Clock Back [to 1896-97] | 93 | Feb-04 | Correspondence Chess at a Crossroads |
9 | Feb-97 | Power Play In The Correspondence Chess Opening | 94 | Mar-04 | Is There Such a Thing as "Chess Culture"? |
10 | Mar-97 | The Kibitzer Goes To War | 95 | Apr-04 | Was there a "Golden Age" of Correspondence Chess? |
11 | Apr-97 | The Kibitzer And The Even More Complete Najdorf | 96 | May-04 | Introduction to the Pierce Gambit |
12 | May-97 | Chess Computers Aren't Really So Clever | 97 | June-04 | Some Theory of the Pierce Gambit |
13 | Jun-97 | Anyone for the Franco-Benoni? | 98 | July-04 | Playing the "What If...?" Game |
14 | Jul-97 | Winning By One Tempo: Clever or Not? | 99 | Aug-04 | Berserkers and Logicians |
15 | Aug-97 | We're Going On An Elephant Hunt | 100 | Sept-04 | The changes I have seen |
16 | Sep-97 | A Difficult Postal Game | 101 | Oct-04 | It's all down in Black and White |
17 | Oct-97 | Chess Games Belong To The World | 102 | Nov-04 | The end of the 'Black and White' column |
18 | Nov-97 | Bobby Fischer, 25 Years On | 103 | Dec-04 | The Center Game takes Center Stage |
19 | Dec-97 | How Stands the "Faj"? | 104 | Jan-05 | The chess world in the year 1905 |
20 | Jan-98 | One Hundred Years Ago: Head-to-Head in Vienna | 105 | Feb-05 | Chess Treasures at the British Library |
21 | Feb-98 | Dracula has risen from the Grave - or has he? | 106 | Mar-05 | Amos Burn revisited (a review of Richard Forster's book) |
22 | Mar-98 | Putting Dracula back in his coffin | 107 | Apr-05 | The Pierce Brothers and the 'English Mechanic' |
23 | Apr-98 | Who is the real World Champion? | 108 | May-05 | World Champions play correspondence chess |
24 | May-98 | Has The Marshall Attack Been Refuted On The Internet? | 109 | Jun-05 | Queens of Chess: not deadlier than the male? |
25 | Jun-98 | Who Dunst It? | 110 | Jul-05 | The first Ladies International of 1897 (part one: setting the scene & early rounds) |
26 | Jul-98 | Who was the strongest Irish player of all time? | 111 | Aug-05 | The Ladies International (part two) |
27 | Aug-98 | What exactly is the Bishops Opening? | 112 | Sep-05 | The house of the setting sun (New Orleans and chess) |
28 | Sep-98 | The Eternal Appeal Of The Urusov Gambit | 113 | Oct-05 | A tale of two conferences (ICCF & KWA) |
29 | Oct-98 | Is The Urusov Gambit Sound? | 114 | Nov-05 | Open games revisited: the Two Knights |
30 | Nov-98 | He could have been a contender... [Hermans Matisons] | 115 | Dec-05 | Two Knights Defence revisited: the 4 d4 lines |
31 | Dec-98 | Bring Back Free Castling! | 116 | Jan-06 | The chess world in the year 1906 |
32 | Jan-99 | 100 Years Ago: The Return of Lasker | 117 | Feb-06 | In the footsteps of Harold Murray |
33 | Feb-99 | Some Openings Topics Revisited | 118 | Mar-06 | The Italian Game revisited |
34 | Mar-99 | The Openings at New York 1924, pt. 1 | 119 | Apr-06 | The Evans Gambit reloaded |
35 | Apr-99 | NY 1924 Revisited: The Closed Openings | 120 | May-06 | Sir George Thomas: the early years |
36 | May-99 | Transpositions | 121 | Jun-06 | The last homecoming of Mars |
37 | Jun-99 | Have a hack with the Hennig-Schara | 122 | July-06 | The poisoned pawn is looking tasty |
38 | Jul-99 | Hennig-Schara Gambit Revisited | 123 | Aug-06 | The first Oxford-Cambridge chess match |
39 | Aug-99 | The Vampire Gambit: Can We Bury It Now? [Halasz Gambit] | 124 | Sept-06 | Another blast from the postal past |
40 | Sep-99 | Is Khalifman the real World Champion? | 125 | Oct-06 | Early games of chess by telephone |
41 | Oct-99 | A royal march to death or glory | 126 | Nov-06 | Chess book heaven at the Royal Dutch Library |
42 | Nov-99 | The Cold Heaven of Rook Endings | 127 | Dec-06 | Some recent chess books reviewed |
43 | Dec-99 | Thoughts on the Millennium | 128 | Jan-07 | Chess in 1907 |
44 | Jan-00 | 100 Years Ago: Chess events in 1900 | 129 | Feb-07 | New paths in the Spanish Marshall |
45 | Feb '00 | New thoughts on Power Play in the Chess Opening | 130 | Mar-07 | Snippets from chess history |
46 | Mar-00 | Interesting Byways in the Classic Open Games | 131 | Apr-07 | The poisoned pawn proved digestible |
47 | Apr-00 | Remembrance of Chess Past | 132 | May-07 | The world's greatest chess library |
48 | May-00 | A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 1) | 133 | Jun-07 | Some thoughts about chess books |
49 | Jun-00 | A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 2) | 134 | July-07 | Has the Morra Gambit been revived? |
50 | Jul-00 | Forty Years A Kibitzer | 135 | Aug-07 | The chess career of King Canute, or not? |
51 | Aug-00 | A pot-pourri of d4 openings | 136 | Sept-07 | The family life of GM Gunsberg |
52 | Sep-00 | Remembering Cenek Kottnauer | 137 | Oct-07 | The private world of the chess problem |
53 | Oct-00 | It's One Small Step For A Pawn... | 138 | Nov-07 | Mostly about chess books for Christmas |
54 | Nov-00 | Playing the Budapest in Budapest | 139 | Dec-07 | How many world champions have there been? |
55 | Dec-00 | A Portion of Sugar Tart | 140 | Jan-08 | Chess in the year 1908 |
56 | Jan-01 | One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1901 | 141 | Feb-08 | Bobby Fischer R. I. P. |
57 | Feb '01 | FIDE, the World Championship and the art of Boxing Promotion | 142 | Mar-08 | Trials of a touring chess master: Zukertort in Dublin, 1879 |
58 | Mar-01 | Two Knights Defence: see the wood, not the trees | 143 | Apr-08 | Informator’s first one hundred volumes |
59 | Apr-01 | Two Knights Defence without Tears: Part 2 | 144 | May-08 | Tolstoy and his biographer at the chessboard |
60 | May-01 | Two Knights Defence Part3: Berliner Variation Busted? | 145 | June-08 | The Boden-Kieseritsky Gambit |
61 | June-01 | Desert Island Chess Books | 146 | July-08 | Untruths and mysteries about The Chess Player’s Chronicle |
62 | July-01 | The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 1) | 147 | Aug-08 | Summer books and a new chess library |
63 | Aug-01 | The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 2) | 148 | Sept-08 | New investigations in the Two Knights Defence |
64 | Sep-01 | Swansong of the Giuoco Piano (part 1) | 149 | Oct-08 | ‘What-ifs’ of chess; some new case studies |
65 | Oct-01 | The Giuoco Piano (part 2): the case for the defence | 150 | Nov-08 | World Title Shenanigans |
66 | Nov-01 | Shakhmatny Bulletin: an old friend revisited | 151 | Dec-08 | Kasparov's matches & other Christmas books |
67 | Dec-01 | I have seen the future - and it works! | 152 | Jan-09 | Turning the clock back: chess in 1909 |
68 | Jan-02 | One Hundred Years Ago: chess in 1902 | 153 | Feb-09 | Remembering Bob Wade |
69 | Feb-02 | The Guioco Piano on Trial: The Summing-Up | 154 | Mar-09 | Erik Larsson: A Lifetime in the Service of Correspondence Chess |
70 | Mar-02 | The Guioco Piano on Trial: White wins the case! | 155 | Apr-09 | New chess books for Spring |
71 | Apr-02 | Is the Najdorf poisoned pawn edible? | 156 | May-09 | Philidor in the newspapers |
72 | May-02 | The not-so-fine art of game annotation | 157 | June-09 | Philidor - the final years |
73 | June-02 | A golden jubilee of British chess | 158 | July-09 | Women and chess: the debate revisited |
74 | July-02 | A glass of Scotch | 159 | Aug-09 | The Cincinnati Commercial correspondence chess tournament, 1882-5. |
75 | Aug-02 | A second dram of the Scotch Gambit | 160 | Sept-09 | The databases are reloaded |
76 | Sept-02 | Materialism in chess | 161 | Oct-09 | John Littlewood, the man who lived tactics |
77 | Oct-02 | Does chess have a future? | 162 | Nov-09 | Books for the Darker Evenings |
78 | Nov-02 | Not quite winning with the Allgaier Gambit | 163 | Dec-09 | Judging Bobby Fischer |
79 | Dec-02 | Last rites for the Allgaier Gambit? | 164 | Jan-10 | 100 Years Ago: Chess in 1910 |
80 | Jan-03 | One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1903 | 165 | Feb-10 | Masters & patzers in the biographical dictionaries |
81 | Feb-03 | A Blast From The Postal Past | 166 | Mar-10 | Playing the Morphy numbers game |
82 | Mar-03 | Interview with a (Chess-playing) Vampire | 167 | Apr-10 | Vasily Smyslov, the career of a world champion |
83 | Apr-03 | Once more unto the Urusov, dear friends, once more... | 168 | May-10 | The ratings game: meet Mr Fifty Percent |
84 | May-03 | A Little Tutorial on PGN | 169 | June-10 | Thoughts on the world championship |
85 | June-03 | How Sokolsky Played the Sokolsky | 170 | July-10 | Books for summer |