Sources for preamble quotes:
- Issue 11: ‘There is not a single true chess player [in the world] whose heart does not beat faster at the mere sound of such long beloved and familiar words as ‘gambit games’ ‘, Bronstein: 200 Open Games (London: Batsford 1973) (tr.: Batsford), p. 8. N.B. the bracketed words were omitted.
- Issue 17: ‘In those years I already understood that, strictly speaking, there is no such thing as opening theory. Opening monographs and encyclopaedias are collections of games by more or less well-known players, with brief and often very mistaken comments by the authors and compilers.’ Sanakoev, World Champion at the Third Attempt (London: Batsford 1999) (tr.: John Sugden), p. 42.
- Issue 22: ‘when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth’, Holmes: Arthur Conan Doyle, The Sign of Four (London: Spencer Blackett 1890), chapter VI.
- Issue 23: ‘contrary to the ancient laws of chess chivalry (Black must defend!)’, Tal: Lyev Polugayevsky, Grandamaster Preparation (tr.: Ken Neat) (Oxford: Pergamon 1981), p. ix (Foreword).
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