The Chaturanga Chess Club

Chess Tactics! Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world, tactics to sharpen your skills.

Time and Tide

Annotated Master Tournaments from before the Internet age!

Time and Tide

August/September 1945 Chess Review. World War 2 is drawing to it’s merciful end and the first post war event, the now famous Radio Match is announced.

Anthony Santasiere wins the US Open.

Then, from May 1974 Chess Life & Review we have the Karpov-Polugaevsky and Portisch-Petrosian Matches of the Candidates Cycle.

Note the mix up of photos 2 and 3 on Smyslov and Boleslavsky.

Instructional articles from before the Internet age on openings, endgames and everything in between.

January 1944. World War 2 was entering it’s 5th year! The Allies were slogging their way up the boot of Italy. They had just made an amphibious landing at the seaside resort of Anzio, one of the most bloody and costliest battles of the Second World War. The cover of Chess Review reflects the times.

Issue # 5 of Yasser Seirawan’s fine magazine Inside Chess. Featured are the Candidates match between Yasser Seirawan of the USA and Jonathan Speelman of England. Then an article on a theoretical novelty in the Nimzo-Indian.

Diamond Dust

Chess Tactics! Through space and time, from Chaturanga and around the world,tactics to sharpen your skills.

“Combinations have always been the most intriguing aspect of chess…..It is because combinations are possible that chess is more than a lifeless mathematical exercise. They are the poetry of the game; they are to chess what melody is to music. They represent the triumph of mind over matter.” Reuben Fine