WELCOME!

I now have a new regular column in the Times Group Newspapers website, which you are invited to read and leave comments on.

You're probably here because a) you play chess and b) you read that I run Golders Green Rapidplays in the London Evening Standard, British Chess Magazine, Chess Monthly or online on the English Chess Federation calendar or similar.

Or maybe you have seen my chess shop Chess Etc on eBay and you want to buy a book?

Either way, thanks for visiting. Please take a look around and let me know if I can improve it.