RECENT
ARCHIVE OF MONTHLY ARTICLES (from February 2023).
(“corr.” signifies a correspondence chess game)
2023
February-March
2023 Head to Head with Players who have won the British Championship (2):
Number
1 (Bruce-Stephenson 1961), Number
2 (Stephenson-Sunnucks 1972).
March April
2023 Examples of queen sacrifices (with a focus on the prelude to the
sacrifice) (4): Number
1 (Kanyamarala-McKay 2021), Number
2 (Donnelly-Moricz 2021), Number
3 (Donnelly-Susanto 2020).
April-May
2023 Winning with the Polish Opening: Number
1 (Florescu-Roman 2021), Number
2 (Rellstab-Richter 1938).
May-June
2023 “From Russia without Love”-severe loses in complex games from the
Russian Correspondence Chess Association Invitation 5yr Tournament: Number
1 (Peljo-Donnelly 1998 corr.), Number
2 (Donnelly-Rezvyakov 1998 corr.).
[Examples of
interesting and dramatic Russian picture postcards used by some players in this
event can be found by clicking
here. ].
June-July
2023 Kenilworth player’s instructive attacking play at the English Seniors
Championship: Number
1 (Baguley-Page 2023), Number
2 (Goodwin-Jerome 2023).
July-August
2023 Examples of predominantly intuitive play in Rapid games on the Internet
(III): On the road towards a greater degree of intuitive play: Number
1 (Lesaoana-Donnelly 2020), Number
2 (Donnelly-Gjino 2021).
August-September
2023 Remembering Peter Campbell Gibbs-Multiple over-the-board and
correspondence chess champion, England World Student Team representative,
British Team International, Newspaper columnist, Coach, Life Vice President of
3 County Associations, Recipient of the BCF Presidents Award, President of the
MCCU – “A Legend-a gentleman of the game of chess” (Ray Dolan):
Number
1 (Gibbs-Sergeant 1955), Number
2 (Gibbs-Hernandez 1975 corr.).
[Peter has
contributions much to several areas of Chess including
over-the board play for sighted and blind players. SIM Ian Pheby has provided
details of Peter’s contribution to Correspondence Chess: EFCC Auditor 1965-71;
British Veterans CCC Tournament Organiser 2000-2011; EFCC President 1988-91;
Member of several EFCC sub-committees 1965-2007. He also won the British
Veterans Correspondence Championship 1999-2000 and promoted this form of chess
in his widely read Birmingham Post column for several decades].
September-October
2023 A small tribute to the work of the stalwarts of the British
Correspondence Chess Association (BCCA) 1906 to the present: Number
1 (Tranmer-Chapman 1939 corr.), Number 2
(Ritson Morry-Duffell 1928 corr.)
October-November
2023 Lessons from very short games (2): Number
1 (Phillips-Taylor 2023), Number
2 (Davies-Jakhria 2023), Number
3 (Sugden-Littlefair 2023), Number
4 (Tang-Courtney Holt 2023).
November-December
2023 Focus on pre-WW2 events (VIII) Amsterdam Chess Congress 1936: Number
1 (Bosch-Euwe), Number
2 (Alekhine-Bosch).
2024
December
2023-February 2024 Brevities XVII (4NCL 2023 games): Number
1 (Hedger-Blackie), Number
2 (Ravi-Manickam), Number
3 (Burgess-Tomy), Number
4 (Amos-Butts), Number
5 (Granat-McDonagh).
February-March
2024 Focus on the Sicilian Wing Gambit: Number
1 (Abrahams-Mieses 1944), Number
2 (Williams-Palliser 2021).
March-April
2024 Selected games of Early Russian Masters (1):
Number 1 (Hoffman-Petrov 1844), Number
2 (Shumov-Petrov 1862).
April-May
2024 Focus on the Alekhine Defence: Number
1 (Pritchett-Donnelly 1973), Number
2 (Christie-Donnelly 2023).