Chess – Hackney Citizen

Pawnography: Hackney Chess Club turn unlikely fashion icons for Korean clothing brand CHANCECHANCE

By Andrew Barnes | Tuesday 30 January 2018 at 12:37

King of fashion: detail from the CHANCECHANCE shoot with Hackney Chess Club. All photographs: Wendy Huynh

Photographer Wendy Huynh decked the club out in coats and tops from the Seoul-based company’s Winter collection, for a Stoke Newington fashion shoot

Liberal Democrat activist ‘knocks out’ UKIP MEP in Brexit-charged ‘chessboxing’ match

By Hackney Citizen | Tuesday 11 April 2017 at 17:10

Dominant: Lib Dem Toby White lands a blow. Photograph: London Chessboxing

York Hall hosted the political bout of sport that alternates chess and pugilism as a test of mental and physical strength