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January 22, 2012 13:08 pm
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 Flexible French and most recently Revolutionise Your Chess.
With no time to study chess (and even...
January 05, 2012 17:45 pm
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 and improve every aspect of life over the next twelve months.
And then promptly gives up by the first...
December 12, 2011 21:44 pm
Recently, I was lucky enough to get a brief excursion out of Amsterdam for a weekend, as the Utrecht team and I trekked to the most northern part of the country for our monthly league match. We were to face Groningen, a small student town that...
November 16, 2011 20:56 pm
Ah, now this is the way chess should be.
On Saturday I was recruited to play in the annual regional blitz championships, playing board one for Utrecht. The event is basically a grudge match among the best of the Netherlands league teams from the...
November 01, 2011 13:16 pm
After a usual day of class at Tinbergen, I’m exhausted. Not physically, of course, but that part of my brain that calculates anything is completely spent. This means that I basically haven’t picked up a chess book in a couple of months.
So you can...
October 01, 2011 22:10 pm
Another birthday has come and gone, and I’m now four-fifths of my way through the continuous string of non-prime-years in my twenties. (In non-geek speak, I’m 27.) Another birthday in Amsterdam, too, to follow the 2006 extravaganza.
Despite being...
September 20, 2011 0:00 am
Hearty congratulations to Russian grandmaster Peter Svidler, who today won the final of the World Chess Cup against compatriot and friend Alexander Grischuk.
After a tenacious month of cut throat knockout chess in the tiny Siberian town of Khanty...
September 13, 2011 2:07 am
A very quick note to say that I’ll be one of the Chess.FM commentators for tomorrow’s semi final matches in the World Chess Cup in Khanty Mansiysk, Russia. Feel free to chuck the online radio stream on in the background to add a little ambience to...
September 11, 2011 1:42 am
(EDIT: I should throw a bit of a shout-out to our new ChessVibes readers. The best chess-news website on the planet has undertaken a revamp and somewhat naively decided to include davidsmerdon.com in its new chess grandmaster blog section. ...
September 04, 2011 22:58 pm
No, it’s not what you think.
Amsterdam is quite a city, and although it’s been over five years, I’m gradually remembering all the reasons I love this place. Of course, you’ve got your museums, canals, tulips, art galleries and clogs, but we all...
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