Unfortunately, due to funding difficulties, the Mind Sports Zine has not been updated since April 2001. Thank you for your interest.
Chess grandmaster Ray Keene, chess columnist for The Times, Sunday Times and Spectator and author of over 100 books on mind sports welcomes you to one of his favourite pastimes - controversy.
Who shot whom over a game of bridge?
Was Carl Schlechter robbed of the world chess title in 1910?
Can the MSO website help Interpol and track down wanted homosexual paederast, former British chess champion Brian Eley?
What do we know about the great Scrabble© loo scandal?
What is the truth behind the stopping of the World Chess Championship in 1985?
How does World Chess Federation President Kirsan Ilyumzinov deal with tax dodgers?
The MSO will regularly investigate a current or historical controversy from the mind sports world. Provocative, controversial but fair is our motto – the goal will be to get to the bottom of the murkiest scandals in mind sports and we need you, our audience, to help.
All you games historians with special knowledge please contribute! And if you have a special angle on a current scandal or a point of view, we want to know.
Regular votes will be held amongst you to decide on critical issues – we plan to unearth the true villains and the real heroes. All sides will be represented and chat and debate are fully encouraged – so watch this space. And if you know of a scandal which needs airing – we want to hear from you!
Happy scandal-mongering!
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Scandals:
July:
Illegal immigration?
China's Xiangqi Grandmasters Barred from Canada -by Bill Brydon
Update!
Embassy strikes back!
But What About the Truth? 18 August 2000
May:
Cash or Chess?
The chess world is being invaded by money and power hungry forces--Or is it?
April:
Theft or (Artificial) Intelligence?
Programming Go is a tough enough challenge - to tempt plagiarism?
March:
Was Schlechter Robbed?
Did a secret contract thwart Schlechter's bid for the world chess title?
February:
A Bridge Too Far
A feeble partner - grounds for murder?
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