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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.
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November 11, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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#Chess and music have long shared a connection, the game often called silent music or a mental dance. For those curious to try all at the same time this #ChessTuesday, here’s the Caïssa Waltz, by Walter Pulitzer, 1897. From the @englishchess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
November 4, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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The Mystery of the Missing Piece for a #Halloween themed #ChessTuesday. Prime suspect: the shadowy relam aka down the side of the sofa? From The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, 1992 in the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @librarydmu.bsky.social
October 28, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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'You can't dance at two weddings at the same time' From trophies to cha cha #chess wisdom this #ChessTuesday with The Wisest Things Ever Said About Chess, 2008. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library @richardjameschess.bsky.social
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October 21, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#ChessTuesday 🏆 Trophies from the 1997 European Chess Championship where the England men’s & women’s teams claimed 1st & 3rd place! Standing an impressive 2ft tall, they’re not easy to lift or to win! 💪 From the @englishchess.bsky.social. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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#ChessTuesday insight: Krogius reminds us it’s far more valuable to reflect on our own play than to just study the board and others 🧠♟️ 1976. #ChessPsychology from the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. @richardjameschess.bsky.social ecfchess Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature #garylanechess
September 30, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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The Story of the Dundee Chess Club (1984) for #ChessTuesday from its foundation in 1847, to its win of the Richardson Cup and a visit from Alekhine and beyond. Plus a gorge cover! From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library.@richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature @garylanechess
September 23, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#ChessTuesday & the Game of 3 Kingdoms! Not a TV series, a 3-player #chess variant played on a hexagonal board. Inspired by the clash of Wei, Shu, & Wu after the fall of the Han dynasty in China, it’s checkmate C3rd AD style ⚔️ From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library #chesshistory #chessliterature
September 16, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#ChessTuesday With 4 Yearbooks spanning 1945-1950, these pocket-sized publications by The Chess Education Society relay the rise in membership following WWII; girls and boys' tournaments & establishing chess in youth clubs. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature
September 9, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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For #ChessTuesday, the cover of International Chess, 1979, and the East European zonal results of the qualifying tournament held in Warsaw, Poland. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social
September 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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This lovely lil booklet on Modern Chess (1972) by Gabriel Vicente Maura for #ChessTuesday. The variant includes the invention of a new piece, the Prime Minister, with the powers of a bishop and a knight. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chess
colour image of booklet cover with stylised design of the queen, king and new piece, the prime misinster which is similar to a knight on a podium. Black and white image of Vicente holding the 81 squares chess board.
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#ChessTuesday Grandmaster Harry Golombek visited Norwich for a simul vs 26 club members: he won 24, drew 1, and lost 1 to secretary H.C. Hughes. Scorecard from @ecfchess Library. My son’s already trying to work out the moves! @englishchess.bsky.social @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory
Image of a handwritten scorecard where Golombek plays white and resings on turn 37
August 19, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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A paleography challenge this #ChessTuesday with 3 inscriptions in the Kleines Lehrbuch des Schachspiels (Little book of Chess). 1902? From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. Looking forward to the replies! #chesshistory #chessliterature @richardjameschess.bsky.social @librarydmu.bsky.social
inside cover with handwritten inscriptions in english and german
August 12, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Connecting collections with a perfect match for #ChessTuesday: the cover of the Islington Chess Congress, 1970, organised by Stewart Reuben (@englishchess.bsky.social Library), paired with photos of the same event from the arbiter’s own collection, this one from 1968. #chesshistory #chessliterature
August 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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#ChessTuesday: I ❤️ looking through chess programmes and club histories. Opening this History of the Norfolk & Norwich Chess Club 1936 revealed press cuttings and a letter to grandmaster Harry Golombek regarding his simul there in 1948. From the
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July 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Remembering Stewart Reuben, legendary chess arbiter, organiser and player, who sadly passed earlier this year. Known for drawing a blitz game with Bobby Fischer & pioneering the weekend Swiss. Explore his papers: buff.ly/an23gqQ #ChessTuesday #chesshistory #chessliterature @englishchess.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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#ChessTuesday 'a great advance in form & matter' is how the Essex County Chess Association describe their first new publication, the Year book for 1925-26 featuring their rather fine club trophy & its contemporaneous holder, F. Nettleton. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library #chesshistory
Cover of the yearbook. Yellow and black with chequerboard border and a rook centrepiece. Inside cover with an image of the trophy on the left and a list of association officers on the right.
July 15, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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From swimming pool chess to #chess on the beach this #ChessTuesday. From Iberia Magazine. The @ecfchess Library holds a small run of the publication with 4 issues from the summer of 1927. Nearly 100 years old! #chesshistory #chessliterature @garylanechess @chesstutor @ecfchess @librarydmu
July 8, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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This is definitely the way to play #chess on this scorching 🔥 #ChessTuesday. From the Hull Chess Club Magazine 1999. Apologies if I'm repeating my moves, but I may have melted... From the @englishchess.bsky.socia. @dmuleicester.bsky.social
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Black and white photograph of people playing chess in a swimming pool.
July 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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This #ChessTuesday we have Bangladeshi International Master Rani Hamid receiving the winner's trophy at the British Women's Chess Championship from John Brew (1985, we think?). From the Stewart Reuben Collection. @englishchess.bsky.social @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #womenschess
Black and white photograph of Hamid smiling as she receives the trophy.
June 24, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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The answer to our #ChessTuesday baby competition is Alexandra Kostenuik! And the image taken from her book, How I Became a Grandmaster at Age 14 (2001). Since then she has won various tournaments including the Womens European & World Chess Championships. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library.
Cover of the book with a chessboard background and Kostenuik dressed in black and white.
June 18, 2025 at 8:40 AM
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A name the baby challenge this #ChessTuesday! Can you name this future grandmaster?
Pictured on a changing mat that looks remarkably like a chessboard, this little one really did start their training early 👶 ♟️ From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory
June 17, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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A pocket-sized Guide to Chess & Draughts by H. Peachey c 1895 for #ChessTuesday. ❤️ the list of other titles in the back: which would you find most useful? From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library. @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
Image of the green fabric cover of the book in the Saxon's everybody series. List of other titles including: pocket lawyer, ready reckoner and ball-room dancing.
June 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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DYK the Welsh Chess Union was founded in 1970. The 1993-94 Welsh Chess Union Yearbook for #ChessTuesday with deets for all the #welsh clubs, latest news and here the championship results table. From the @englishchess.bsky.social Library @richardjameschess.bsky.social #chesshistory #chessliterature
Red cover of the yearbook with welsh map as a chess board List of results table with A.H. Williams the winner.
June 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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'The poet lost cursing his fate... the knight's gambit did not bring me any luck - now I will try the Pegasus gambit!' Comic chess verse by Yevg Ilyin with this gorge pocket-sized book, 1981 for #ChessTuesday. From the Golombek collection in the @englishchess.bsky.social Library #chesshistory
Illustrated book cover with a hand threading a pegasus shaped knight chess piece as if it is a needle or kite. Illustrated reverse cover with a hand holding a thimble and a pegasus shaped knight chess piece diving into it.
May 20, 2025 at 8:01 AM