Jonathan Manley

Kingpin Editor | Publisher | Chess player | Sceptic | Cake eater | writing a book on Sir George Thomas | All views my own | Bluesky @kingpined.bsky.social

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

Guilty as charged.

[Sarah Hurst 🇺🇦 @Life_Disrupted]

My great friend Jimmy Adams, the editor of CHESS magazine for many years and author of numerous books on chess history died yesterday at the age of 79. This is him talking about Paul Keres in a podcast for New in Chess. He really knew how to bring the players of the past to life.

[GaryLanechess @garylanechess]

My friend Jimmy Adams (1947-6 June 2026) has died. He had been ill for a while. In recent times he had been writing historic chess books . His latest one is out soon and he recently received an advance copy and he was pleased how it looked. A top guy. #chess

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

I’ve just heard the sad news that FM Jimmy Adams has died after a long illness. A fine chess writer and editor, his scholarship has left a lasting mark on chess literature. RIP.
James Bernard Adams (7 February 1947 – 6 June 2026)

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

@Carl_Portman Postmortem

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

Today’s @ftweekend

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

More here! https://t.co/8flMAVzu8J

[FIDE (a Russian parody) @FIDE__chess]

Old but gold

[OxCityChess @OxCityChess]

Warwick Rapid and Blitz, Saturday 26 May
https://t.co/f8oW2G4L8Z
Friends, please support this excellent event organised by our own Arya Cont and sponsored by ChessPick. £1250 prize fund!
@4NCL @ecfchess @EngChessTrack @ChessEnglish @oxford4nclteams

[OxCityChess @OxCityChess]

Well done! Great to see @oxford4nclteams Kenneth and Yichen commentating too. https://t.co/d5qk5CTsgU

[English Chess Federation (ECF) @ecfchess]

Just under a week until the ECF’s 24-hour chess marathon for Macmillan Cancer Support, in memory of Adam Hunt and Jonathan Hawkins. Sign up below👇

🗓️ 18–19 April, from 5 pm (UK)
🎙️ Commentary on ECF YouTube

Play, donate, or learn more:
https://t.co/2Bm2DEPkIg

[Richard Palliser @richardpalliser]

Very much looking forward to talking to the legendary @DanielKingChess tonight at 8pm UK time! Dare say that discussion of any English chess school, as well as the English chess explosion and creativity in general may come up, as well as #FIDECandidates! #chess

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

@BishopPair Well played!

[GaryLanechess @garylanechess]

Will @vishy64theking help Australia swap cricket for chess? #chess
https://t.co/hA1moYzQRt

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

Happy New Year!
CHESS (January 1936)

[OxCityChess @OxCityChess]

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

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

This will not end well.

[Olimpiu Di Luppi @olimpiuurcan]

"Needed regarding online cheating: a check-list of Vladimir Kramnik's 1) questions; 2) suspicions; 3) insinuations; 4) allegations; 5) accusations; 6) proof." https://t.co/1F3nSZSeUn

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

Kramnik's empty armoury. https://t.co/NmL7N05v7z

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

'For Kramnik, withdrawal of his legal action against Navara could be seen as a sign of strength, not weakness.' https://t.co/0hGCLZRRIN

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

'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.'

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

FIDE's bad language. https://t.co/DwGurz9bKA

[Jonathan Manley @KingpinEd]

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.