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Friday, May 18, 2012 11:47
Thanks to three consecutive wins in rounds 7, 8 and 9 Gata Kamsky is in sole lead at the U.S. Championships in Saint Louis, USA. The American grandmaster caught Hikaru Nakamura in round 7 and surpassed him in round 9, by beating...
Friday, May 18, 2012 9:40
BLACK TO PLAY. The level has seemed pretty high at the World Championship so far, as confirmed by commentator Jan Timman, but as chess fans we want...
Thursday, May 17, 2012 15:31
While Evgeny Sveshnikov attended the World Championship match in Moscow for the first time, Vishy Anand and Boris Gelfand played "his" opening today...
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 12:53
(* If you think that’s a bad pun, just keep reading – you’re in for a real treat.)
It’s time for that great biennial chess event again: the 2012... |
Sunday, April 29, 2012 10:54 As a trainer I am always proud (probably more than when I do it myself) when my students achieve good results. The last week in Chicago was a great... |
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:51 The recently finished EICC in Plovdiv was a real feast for those of us who love the opened, aggressive chess. One of the usual suspects of such play... |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 16:13
Apologies again for a long break between posting but again I’ve been very busy. I promise to update as much as possible now while I have a bit of... |
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Wednesday, May 02, 2012 10:56
Hello dear readers,
Don’t worry the game of the month is on its way, but for now I’ll give a brief recap of my most recent tournament – the Italian... |
Tuesday, April 17, 2012 0:40 August: The 2012 Chess Olympiad, Istanbul, main playing hall. A large crowd has gathered around the last game to finish. Australia is playing... |
 Thursday, April 26, 2012 17:41 I seldom review chess books. To review a chess book one has to read it - at least, I always do - and this immediately presents a problem, for what if... |
 Friday, February 03, 2012 16:28 As a life-long King's Indian player (not counting the occasional flirt with the Grünfeld), I've never been very enthusiastic about answering the move... |
 Wednesday, March 28, 2012 8:43 Nowadays opening books play a different role than before the database era. There is no longer a need for a complete survey of all possibilities.... |
 Friday, December 16, 2011 22:05 Hikaru Nakamura was recently interviewed by Daniel King about his cooperation with Kasparov (which, as we now know, is already over). To my surprise... |
 Sunday, February 19, 2012 1:29 The Tarrasch Defence is a great opening. It is both solid and active, it has a rich history and it has been endorsed by numerous world class players... |
 Thursday, November 10, 2011 17:20 Our most faithful readers know that (very) occasionally we pay attention to a chess publication in the Dutch (our native) language, when we feel we... |
 Sunday, May 13, 2012 20:00 What’s the best and most unique thing about chess? Of course it’s the fact that we have long lasting world championship matches. The immense tension... |
 Saturday, November 05, 2011 11:56 While reading a very serious op-ed about the developments on the Greek crisis in the Financial Times, I suddenly had the very non-serious realization... |
 Monday, March 05, 2012 11:28 In Woody Allen’s recent movie Midnight in Paris (2011), a young Hollywood writer named Gil Pender (played by Owen Wilson) is brought back to Paris of... |
 Saturday, October 15, 2011 21:44 Watching the 7th game of the Kasparov-Short blitz match last week made me realize once again how radical Fischer’s proposal to shuffle all the pieces... |
 Thursday, December 08, 2011 11:23 It's a little known fact that the playing venue of the London Chess Classic is actually not that easy to reach from the City. The office where I work... |
 Tuesday, October 04, 2011 12:53 After becoming a bit depressed this week by reading such chess headlines as Billboard hero Magnus Carlsen blundering and former Soviet hero Mikhail... |
 Tuesday, May 15, 2012 13:10
Just out: The Sicilian Taimanov: Move by Move
In this book, Grandmaster John Emms shares his experience and knowledge grown from over 15 years... |
 Friday, May 04, 2012 12:16
We have just received from our printers: Bobby Fischer Comes Home
Icelandic grandmaster Helgi Olafsson was a member of the committee that... |
 Friday, May 11, 2012 13:03
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 Wednesday, May 02, 2012 14:04
New In Chess 2012 #3 is out now!
In this issue:
The Mozart of Chess
A comparison with Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart may well be the highest praise a... |
 Tuesday, May 08, 2012 12:29
We have just received: Mastering Opening Strategy
In this book, GM and chess coach Johan Hellsten examines a wide variety of key subjects, such... |
 Friday, April 20, 2012 15:19
We have just received: Positional Chess Sacrifices
His previous book Dynamic Chess Strategy won the BCF Book of the Year award, now GM Mihai Suba... |
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