Jonathan Manley

Guilty as charged.

@BishopPair Well played!

FM title secured! Made it with a nice finish too - white to play and win.

Will @vishy64theking help Australia swap cricket for chess? #chess abc.net.au/news/2026-02-2…

Happy New Year! CHESS (January 1936)

Many congratulations to Banbury's popular player, writer and campaigner.

This will not end well.

"Needed regarding online cheating: a check-list of Vladimir Kramnik's 1) questions; 2) suspicions; 3) insinuations; 4) allegations; 5) accusations; 6) proof." chesshistory.com/winter/extra/k…

Kramnik's empty armoury. chesshistory.com/winter/extra/k…

'For Kramnik, withdrawal of his legal action against Navara could be seen as a sign of strength, not weakness.' chesshistory.com/winter/extra/j…

'The current battles over online cheating are a grimly undignified, barely intelligible mess with, as their hub, nothing better than X/Twitter. There must be a better way.'

FIDE's bad language. #12237._Language_FIDE_" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">chesshistory.com/winter/index.h…

Fred Yates (1884-1932), six-times British Chess Champion, died on this day. The Yorkshireman beat most of the great masters of his time and was in the world's top 20. He scraped a living as a player and journalist and was killed by a leak from a faulty gas fitting while asleep.

I felt it was time for a new experiment. Introducing CHESSVIBES WEEKLY, a new podcast that covers the latest chess news. Hope you like it! (And hopefully soon on Apple and Spotify as well.) A retweet would be appreciated... Spread the word! buzzsprout.com/2546567/episod…

Loved chatting with the Guardian’s Lennard Barden, who after 70 years, 14 prime ministers, and nearly 4,000 articles, is still writing his brilliant chess column every week - and is now a officially a record holder. Some lovely memories in this piece theguardian.com/sport/2025/sep…

The maestro’s set.

My review in @KingpinEd of bk '#Chess in the #Third #Reich' kingpinchess.net/2025/07/chess-… Did @AndrewLownie have me fully sussed out when he described (who me?) in DM 9.2023? "...people flaunting their #ego on #social #media." eg by 9.23 I 'd only TWed c. 3500x vs #Trump & Co. In vain!

Happy birthday to Leonard Barden (96) whose Guardian chess column is 69.

Sir George reached two #Wimbledon semi-finals and four quarter-finals between 1907 and 1912.

Sir George Thomas won the mixed doubles at #QueensClub with Dorothy Chambers in 1908. World- class at tennis, he was supreme at badminton and won the British chess championship twice. One of Britain's greatest sportsmen.

Sir George Thomas on chess obsession and Rubinstein's deathwish. kingpinchess.net/2025/07/a-crea…

Chess and the Nazis kingpinchess.net/2025/07/chess-…

A call from Leonard Barden saves the world championship match. The Field, 13 July 1972