White to play. This is a variation from Spassky-Bronstein, Leningrad 1960, which was used as the basis of the chess position in From Russia with Love. Can you spot White’s fine finish? Answers to me at The Spectator by Tuesday 19 June or via email to victoria@spectator.co.uk or by fax on 020 7681 3773. The
The latest Sherlock Holmes film, A Game of Shadows, starring Robert Downey jr and Jude Law, pays distinct homage to Conan Doyle’s one direct reference to chess in the Sherlock Holmes canon. Although in The Dying Detective Holmes and Watson repair for ‘something nutritious’ at Simpson’s-in-the-Strand, then the traditional hub of London chess, the only