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Index to Kibitzer articles

Here are two index tables to all Tim Harding's Kibitzer columns, which can be found on the Chess Cafe website. New articles are posted on the second Wednesday of each month.

The series reached its tenth anniversary four years ago and is still going strong. First below is a table of links to the current and more recent columns with spaces for future months. Lower down is a table linking to the earlier columns from the inception of the series in 1996 to the 150th column.

Please note that a lot of the columns have topical references, and may indicate links and downloadable files that are no longer available on the World Wide Web. The first 51 columns are available as textfiles in the Chess Cafe archives while more recent ones are preserved there with formatting in PDF.

NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC
151 Dec-08 Kasparov's matches & other Christmas books 164 Jan-10 100 Years Ago: Chess in 1910:
152 Jan-09 Turning the clock back: chess in 1909 165 Feb-10 Masters & patzers in the biographical dictionaries
153 Feb-09 Remembering Bob Wade 166 Mar-10 Playing the Morphy numbers game
154 Mar-09 Erik Larsson: A Lifetime in the Service of Correspondence Chess 167 Apr-10 Vasily Smyslov, the career of a world champion
155 Apr-09 New chess books for Spring 168 May-10 The ratings game: meet Mr Fifty Percent
156 May-09 Philidor in the newspapers 169 June-10 Thoughts on the world championship
157 June-09 Philidor - the final years 170 July-10 Books for summer
158 July-09 Women and chess: the debate revisited 171 Aug-10

Can the Ponzi fly again? to be posted 11 Aug.
159 Aug-09 The Cincinnati Commercial correspondence chess tournament, 1882-5. 172 Sept-10 Topic to be decided : to be posted 8 Sept.
160 Sept-09 The databases are reloaded 173 Oct-10 Topic to be decided : to be posted 13 Oct.
161 Oct-09 John Littlewood, the man who lived tactics 174 Nov-10 Topic to be decided : to be posted 10 Nov.
162 Nov-09 Books for the Darker Evenings 175 Dec-10  
163 Dec-09 Judging Bobby Fischer 176 Jan-11  

Below is a linked table of the first 150 columns.

NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC NO. DATE TITLE/ TOPIC
1 Jun-96 Frankenstein and Dracula at the Chessboard 76 Sept-02 Materialism in chess
2 Jul-96 Noteboom Or Abrahams: Whose Variation Is It Anyway? 77 Oct-02 Does chess have a future?
3 Aug-96 The Two Worlds Of Correspondence Chess 78 Nov-02 Not quite winning with the Allgaier Gambit
4 Sep-96 Time To Gamble On A Gambit 79 Dec-02 Last rites for the Allgaier Gambit?
5 Oct-96 Two Knights Defence, The Amazing Counter-Attack 80 Jan-03 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in 1903
6 Nov-96 The Lost Heroes Of Chess 81 Feb-03 A Blast From The Postal Past
7 Dec-96 Kilkenny Open 82 Mar-03 Interview with a (Chess-playing) Vampire
8 Jan-97 The Kibitzer Turns The Clock Back [to 1896-97] 83 Apr-03 Once more unto the Urusov, dear friends, once more...
9 Feb-97 Power Play In The Correspondence Chess Opening 84 May-03 A Little Tutorial on PGN
10 Mar-97 The Kibitzer Goes To War 85 June-03 How Sokolsky Played the Sokolsky
11 Apr-97 The Kibitzer And The Even More Complete Najdorf 86 July-03 Significant Games in the Sokolsky Opening
12 May-97 Chess Computers Aren't Really So Clever 87 Aug-03 Who was Winawer?
13 Jun-97 Anyone for the Franco-Benoni? 88 Sept-03 Goodbye to the Friendly Orang-Utan
14 Jul-97 Winning By One Tempo: Clever or Not? 89 Oct-03 The Evans Gambit (Part 1): The Search for Truth in the Evans Gambit
15 Aug-97 We're Going On An Elephant Hunt 90 Nov-03 The Evans Gambit (Part 2): Chigorin's Experiences with the Evans Gambit
16 Sep-97 A Difficult Postal Game 91 Dec-03 How Much Longer Can Man Match the Computer?
17 Oct-97 Chess Games Belong To The World 92 Jan-04 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1904
18 Nov-97 Bobby Fischer, 25 Years On 93 Feb-04 Correspondence Chess at a Crossroads
19 Dec-97 How Stands the "Faj"? 94 Mar-04 Is There Such a Thing as "Chess Culture"?
20 Jan-98 One Hundred Years Ago: Head-to-Head in Vienna 95 Apr-04 Was there a "Golden Age" of Correspondence Chess?
21 Feb-98 Dracula has risen from the Grave - or has he? 96 May-04 Introduction to the Pierce Gambit
22 Mar-98 Putting Dracula back in his coffin 97 June-04 Some Theory of the Pierce Gambit
23 Apr-98 Who is the real World Champion? 98 July-04 Playing the "What If...?" Game
24 May-98 Has The Marshall Attack Been Refuted On The Internet? 99 Aug-04 Berserkers and Logicians
25 Jun-98 Who Dunst It? 100 Sept-04 The changes I have seen
26 Jul-98 Who was the strongest Irish player of all time? 101 Oct-04 It's all down in Black and White
27 Aug-98 What exactly is the Bishops Opening? 102 Nov-04 The end of the 'Black and White' column
28 Sep-98 The Eternal Appeal Of The Urusov Gambit 103 Dec-04 The Center Game takes Center Stage
29 Oct-98 Is The Urusov Gambit Sound? 104 Jan-05 The chess world in the year 1905
30 Nov-98 He could have been a contender... [Hermans Matisons] 105 Feb-05 Chess Treasures at the British Library
31 Dec-98 Bring Back Free Castling! 106 Mar-05 Amos Burn revisited (a review of Rochard Forster's book)
32 Jan-99 100 Years Ago: The Return of Lasker 107 Apr-05 The Pierce Brothers and the 'English Mechanic'
33 Feb-99 Some Openings Topics Revisited 108 May-05 World Champions play correspondence chess
34 Mar-99 The Openings at New York 1924, pt. 1 109 Jun-05 Queens of Chess: not deadlier than the male?
35 Apr-99 NY 1924 Revisited: The Closed Openings 110 Jul-05 The first Ladies International of 1897 (part 1: setting the scene & early rounds)
36 May-99 Transpositions 111 Aug-05

The Ladies International (part 2)
37 Jun-99 Have a hack with the Hennig-Schara 112 Sep-05  The house of the setting sun (New Orleans and chess)
38 Jul-99 Hennig-Schara Gambit Revisited 113 Oct-05  A tale of two conferences (ICCF & KWA)
39 Aug-99 The Vampire Gambit: Can We Bury It Now? [Halasz Gambit] 114 Nov-05 Open games revisited: the Two Knights
40 Sep-99 Is Khalifman the real World Champion? 115 Dec-05 Two Knights Defence revisited: the 4 d4 lines
41 Oct-99 A royal march to death or glory 116 Jan-06 The chess world in the year 1906
42 Nov-99 The Cold Heaven of Rook Endings 117 Feb-06 In the footsteps of Harold Murray
43 Dec-99 Thoughts on the Millennium 118 Mar-06 The Italian Game revisited
44 Jan-00 100 Years Ago: Chess events in 1900 119 Apr-06 The Evans Gambit reloaded
45 Feb '00 New thoughts on Power Play in the Chess Opening 120 May-06 Sir George Thomas: the early years
46 Mar-00 Interesting Byways in the Classic Open Games 121 Jun-06 The last homecoming of Mars
47 Apr-00 Remembrance of Chess Past 122 July-06 The poisoned pawn is looking tasty
48 May-00 A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 1) 123 Aug-06 The first Oxford-Cambridge chess match
49 Jun-00 A History of The City of London Chess Magazine (Part 2) 124 Sept-06 Another blast from the postal past
50 Jul-00 Forty Years A Kibitzer 125 Oct-06 Early games of chess by telephone
51 Aug-00 A pot-pourri of d4 openings 126 Nov-06 Chess book heaven at the Royal Dutch Library
52 Sep-00 Remembering Cenek Kottnauer 127 Dec-06 Some recent chess books reviewed
53 Oct-00 It's One Small Step For A Pawn... 128 Jan-07

Chess in 1907
54 Nov-00 Playing the Budapest in Budapest 129 Feb-07 New paths in the Spanish Marshall
55 Dec-00 A Portion of Sugar Tart 130 Mar-07 Snippets from chess history
56 Jan-01 One Hundred Years Ago: Chess in the Year 1901 131 Apr-07 The poisoned pawn proved digestible
57 Feb '01 FIDE, the World Championship and the art of Boxing Promotion 132 May-07 The world's greatest chess library
58 Mar-01 Two Knights Defence: see the wood, not the trees 133 Jun-07 Some thoughts about chess books
59 Apr-01 Two Knights Defence without Tears: Part 2 134 July-07 Has the Morra Gambit been revived?
60 May-01 Two Knights Defence Part3: Berliner Variation Busted? 135 Aug-07 The chess career of King Canute, or not?
61 June-01 Desert Island Chess Books 136 Sept-07

The family life of GM Gunsberg
62 July-01 The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 1) 137 Oct-07 The private world of the chess problem
63 Aug-01 The London-Vienna Correspondence Match (pt 2) 138 Nov-07 Mostly about chess books for Christmas
64 Sep-01 Swansong of the Giuoco Piano (part 1) 139 Dec-07 How many world champions have there been?
65 Oct-01 The Giuoco Piano (part 2): the case for the defence 140 Jan-08 Chess in the year 1908
66 Nov-01 Shakhmatny Bulletin: an old friend revisited 141 Feb-08 Bobby Fischer R. I. P.
67 Dec-01 I have seen the future - and it works! 142 Mar-08 Trials of a touring chess master: Zukertort in Dublin, 1879
68 Jan-02 One Hundred Years Ago: chess in 1902 143 Apr-08 Informator’s first one hundred volumes
69 Feb-02 The Guioco Piano on Trial: The Summing-Up 144 May-08 Tolstoy and his biographer at the chessboard
70 Mar-02 The Guioco Piano on Trial: White wins the case! 145 June-08 The Boden-Kieseritsky Gambit
71 Apr-02 Is the Najdorf poisoned pawn edible? 146 July-08 Untruths and mysteries about The Chess Player’s Chronicle
72 May-02 The not-so-fine art of game annotation 147 Aug-08 Summer books and a new chess library
73 June-02 A golden jubilee of British chess 148 Sept-08 New investigations in the Two Knights Defence
74 July-02 A glass of Scotch 149 Oct-08 ‘What-ifs’ of chess; some new case studies
75 Aug-02 A second dram of the Scotch Gambit 150 Nov-08 World Title Shenanigans

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