If you live in (or anywhere near) London, and you enjoy a good teams tournament, you could do no better than joining one of the excellent SuperLeague games at Young Chelsea or TGRs. There are two divisions in each, played on alternate weeks and two teams get promoted from Div 2 and two go down
To great surprise, the former world champion Garry Kasparov staged a brief comeback when he participated in a blitz tournament held to celebrate the close of this year’s US Championship. His opponents were the top three from the championship and an 18-round competition resulted in the following scores: Nakamura 11, So 10, Kasparov 9½ and
In Competition No. 2949 you were invited to submit a poem about sharing a drink with a famous writer. I suspected this might be a popular comp and so it proved. I was spoilt for choice winner-wise, so heartfelt commiserations to the many who came within a whisker of making the final cut, especially Alan
The unclued Across lights are of one linguistic kind and the unclued Down lights are of another, all of which solvers must figure out. Across 1 Busy person squeezing scab on carpet (6) 7 Cilla’s out gathering what Novello suggested (6) 12 Ends of the line abolished at privatisation? (9) 13 Come down
The unclued lights can be preceded by GREEN which had to be shaded in green, as indicated in the solution grid. First prize Vincent Clark, Frant, East Sussex Runners-up Michael Grosvenor Myer, Haddenham, Cambridge; Emma Staveley, Oxford
Black to play. This position is from So-Nakamura, Ultimate Blitz Challenge, Saint Louis 2016. How did Black make a key breakthrough while also winning material? Answers to me at The Spectator by Tuesday 31 May or via email to victoria@spectator.co.uk or by fax on 020 7681 3773. There is a prize of £20 for the
