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Sunday, February 05, 2012 13:18
Wrapping up 2011, Big Vlad in London, Rybka muddies the water, double-time Donastia, and Nakamura's 'In Da House'. Or, in other words: The Full English Breakfast #16 is out!
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Sunday, February 05, 2012 13:07
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the...
Friday, February 03, 2012 21:11
Iceland celebrated its first "Chess Day" on January 26th, the country's first GM and ex-FIDE president Fridrik Olafsson's birthday. GM Olafsson, who...
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Wednesday, February 01, 2012 22:19
While Sue’s been busy writing on our road trip I haven’t forgotten about my Game of the Month (actually I had but Sue emailed me to remind me!). I... |
Monday, January 16, 2012 17:51 Hello again everybody. After a few days in Malaysia eating delicious noodles and pork buns, we arrived into New Zealand very early Wednesday morning... |
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Sunday, January 22, 2012 13:08 I’m not really in the habit of plugging chess books, nor authors. But I’m going to make an exception for Victor Moskalenko, well-known author of The... |
Saturday, January 07, 2012 17:46 The LCC has established itself very quickly and was as usual well organized. The addition of an extra player proving an inspired decision, as well as... |
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Friday, January 20, 2012 17:54 The Chess in Schools and Communities Charity is an integral part of the London Classic event and has made great strides in it’s short existence,... |
Thursday, January 05, 2012 17:45
Ah, the New Year. That magical time of the year when, amazingly, every man and his dog, filled with hope and promise, resolves to change, revamp... |
 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... |
 Wednesday, August 31, 2011 18:46 There are dozens of chess improvement books on the market - impossible to read them all. But even if you're tired of keeping track of the good ones,... |
 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... |
 Thursday, July 21, 2011 19:15 The ChessVibes editors are enjoying their summer holiday in various ways. While Peter and Robert played an open in Ikaria, Greece, and Merijn... |
 Wednesday, October 19, 2011 15:51 From the start of this website back in 2006 there has been no clear rule about which content would (should?) be published, except for: what kind of... |
 Thursday, July 07, 2011 20:35 For more than a decade Grünfeld aficionados have been suffering from a scarcity of complete books on this major and exciting opening. But at last, GM... |
 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... |
 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... |
 Thursday, July 28, 2011 1:16 The chess world is in a crisis. In tournaments like Biel and Dortmund, all the public gets is games full of mistakes. Something must be done to end... |
 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... |
 Monday, April 04, 2011 5:46 When you read an open letter like the one on cheating, signed by a number of participants of the European Championship in Aix les Bains, there are... |
 Friday, February 03, 2012 13:44
We have just received: The Modern Morra Gambit
In this completely revised and updated 2nd edition, Hannes Langrock continues to explore this... |
 Monday, January 30, 2012 12:23
This is what some of the critics had to say about Yochanan Afek’s and Emmanuel Neiman’s Invisible Chess Moves "In fact, this book is about the... |
 Wednesday, February 01, 2012 15:41
We have just learned that one of our books has won the ChessCafe Book of the Year Award!
Two international voting rounds have determined that... |
 Friday, January 20, 2012 16:27
New in our shop: The Caro-Kann: Move by Move
In this book, Cyrus Lakdawala examines the Caro-Kann, which enjoys a richly deserved reputation as... |
 Monday, January 30, 2012 12:31
Now available in our shop: even more downloads.
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 Wednesday, January 18, 2012 20:36
We have just received from Moscow: Isolani Strategy
The isolated d-pawn or Isolani as Aaron Nimzowitsch referred to it, is one of the cardinal... |
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