The London Chess Club was founded in 1807 and continued until 1860. The London City Club was founded in 1852 and continued until it merged with the National Chess Centre in 1939.
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Quotes of the Day
I’ve got no regrets about the games themselves, as frankly I’ve never been narcissistic about my play.
Alexander Grischuk 2014
Time trouble is blunder time.
Alexander Kotov
In one game it is too difficult to play both for win and draw simultaneously.
Mihail Tal 1969
I don’t believe that Garry likes making decisions by democratic procedures. When there is a decision that he doesn’t like, he just turns against this organization.
Georgios Makropoulos 2013
Do you realize, Fischer almost never has any bad pieces? He exchanges them, and the bad pieces remain with his opponents.
Yury Balashov