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Monday, March 10, 2014 21:39
On the day Bobby Fischer would have celebrated his 71st birthday, Garry Kasparov paid a visit to his grave in Selfoss, Iceland. It was a historic moment for chess: arguably the two greatest players of the game never met, and so they were never as close to each other. Chess.com was there to witness the moment and for a brief interview with Mr Kasparov.
On Sunday, March 9th, 2014 the President of the Icelandic Chess Federation, Gunnar Björnsson,...
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Monday, March 10, 2014 13:39
Already this Thursday one of the biggest events of the year will start: the FIDE Candidates’ Tournament in Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia. Viswanathan Anand...
Monday, March 10, 2014 12:25
Magnus Carlsen also won the 9-round Swiss that was part of the “Festa da Uva” chess festival in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. The world champion scored 8.5...
Monday, March 10, 2014 0:03
On Saturday it was announced that Andrew Paulson has resigned as President of the English Chess Federation. In a statement on the ECF website it is...
Saturday, March 08, 2014 20:35
Magnus Carlsen showed his class on the first two days of the “Festa da Uva” chess festival in Caxias do Sul, Brazil. On Thursday the World Champion...
Saturday, March 08, 2014 0:38
The Reykjavik Open has reached its half-way point and the tension is rising. After 5 rounds the tournament, a 10-round Swiss, has two Dutch leaders:...
Thursday, March 06, 2014 2:17
At the moment Magnus Carlsen is in Caxias do Sul, Brazil, where he will participate in the international “Festa da Uva” chess festival between March...
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Monday, September 23, 2013 14:07
I’ve taken a month off from the blog and indeed anything requiring more than minimal mental effort in my post-thesis hangover. Here I’m referring... |
Thursday, August 08, 2013 16:55
I’ve made it to the little German town of Ladenburg for my post-tournament recovery. And what a tournament it was, too – definitely one of the best... |
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Thursday, August 15, 2013 15:18
In the first part I estimated chances of winning the World Cup 2013 by Levon Aronian (around 11%) using the most simple model.
Some of the readers... |
Friday, August 02, 2013 11:43
There was a time when I was young and cute. No, really. I had hair and everything. Back then, thanks to an article by International Arbiter Charles... |
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Wednesday, August 14, 2013 15:31
It has always struck me why the results of chess knock-out events are so much different from the results of knock-out events in other sports. For... |
Monday, July 29, 2013 16:35
I’m writing this from Denmark. Yes, Denmark!! I finally made it to ‘real’ Scandinavia (sorry Finland, but any country where I have to use Euro... |
 Tuesday, December 24, 2013 9:54
Playing the French is the second opening repertoire book by the Quality Chess authors Jacob Aagaard and Nikolaos Ntirlis. I was very enthusiastic... |
 Wednesday, September 25, 2013 12:32
The King’s Gambit by John Shaw, published by Quality Chess, sets out to be the definitive modern reference of the classic romantic opening – and it... |
 Wednesday, November 27, 2013 14:21
It’s not easy to find time to read chess books when there’s a World Championship match going on at the same time. Still, chess publishers around the... |
 Thursday, September 05, 2013 12:50
Some of you might remember my review of Viktor Moskalenko’s controversial book Revolutionize your chess!. Already back then, some readers pointed out... |
 Monday, October 21, 2013 14:15
Magnus Carlsen is a phenomenon. He could recently be seen on enormous billboards all over the world posing next to supermodel and Lord of the Rings... |
 Friday, August 16, 2013 15:37
Every chess aficionado should own the complete series of recent Kasparov publications: Garry Kasparov on My Great Predecessors, Garry Kasparov on... |
 Tuesday, December 31, 2013 12:00
When, in 1995, Garry Kasparov employed the ancient Evans Gambit, I was thrilled - in part because I was a live witness to it, in his game against... |
 Tuesday, June 25, 2013 14:32
Two weeks ago I played my first chess tournament in years. It was a rapid tournament in the Dutch city of Apeldoorn and because every round was... |
 Monday, November 11, 2013 14:03
When it turned out that I would be in Chennai, India, in November during the World Championship match between Vishy Anand and Magnus Carlsen, I was,... |
 Monday, May 13, 2013 13:46
Recently I saw the movie A Late Quartet, directed by Yaron Zilberman, about four professional musicians in a famous string quartet struggling with... |
 Sunday, August 25, 2013 10:51
Malcolm Gladwell, the author of the best-selling book Outliers, has written a piece on the website of The New Yorker dealing with some of the... |
 Tuesday, March 05, 2013 10:42
The three-move draw (1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 g6 3.Nc3 d5 ½-½) between Pavel Eljanov and Wesley So at the Reykjavik Open has re-opened the never-ending debate... |
 Monday, March 10, 2014 10:33
New: The Alekhine Defence - Move by Move.
IM Cyrus Lakdawala presents a repertoire for Black with 1.e4 Nf6. In the Alekhine Defence Black invites... |
 Wednesday, February 26, 2014 10:01
Steamrolling the Sicilian
Play for a Win with 5.f3!by Sergey Kasparov
"An original book, both in terms of the subject matter and Sergey Kasparov's... |
 Tuesday, March 04, 2014 15:00
Our friends at Quality Chess have just released: Grandmaster Repertoire 17 - The Classical Slav.
In this volume Israelian GM Boris Avrukh provides a... |
 Friday, February 21, 2014 15:40
Pre-order: Bobby Fischer - Triumph and Despair.
A dream for collectors, historians and anyone else fascinated by the American World Champion.
The... |
 Friday, February 28, 2014 14:41
The Perfect Pirc-Modern
Strategic Ideas & Powerful Weaponsby Viktor Moskalenko
The similarities and differences between the Pirc and the... |
 Friday, February 21, 2014 11:55
SAVE UP TO 65% ON COMPLETE CHESS BOOK SERIES
Chess Evolution - The Complete Series Includes 9 volumes by The Chess Evolution Team A multinational... |
