The endgame technique of a 99-year-old

He watched Max Euwe become World Champion. He chatted with Emanuel Lasker, and saved dozens of Jewish babies during the Second World War. Last night I had the privilege to play a club game against 99-year-old Professor Dr Johan van Hulst. I couldn’t beat him. Read more

Review: Essential and not so essential endgame guides

As a fairly decent club player, I have always been impressed with club members, whether higher or lower rated than me, who were able to quickly evaluate basic endgames as ‘elementary’ draws or wins. I must admit I have always had difficulties remembering and truly understanding even the most basic endgames. That’s why I was happy to read two recent guides taking seriously precisely those kind of endgames. Read more

Carlsen beats Jakovenko in first round Dortmund

Magnus Carlsen beat Russia’s new number one player Dmitry Jakovenko today in a Berlin Ruy Lopez to take an early lead at the Sparkassen Chess Meeting in Dortmund. Both Leko-Kramnik and Naiditsch-Bacrot ended in a draw. Read more

All games drawn in 8th round Bazna

All games in round 8 of the Kings Tournament in Bazna ended in a draw and so Vassily Ivanchuk kept his one-point lead with two rounds to go. After the round Kamsky discovered that he had missed a beautiful win in his endgame against Nisipeanu. Read more

Weekly Endgame Study (107)

Every Saturday we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the solution is published. Good luck solving! Read more

The wrong Philidor

All successful chess players are alike; every unsuccesful chess player is unsuccessful in his own way. I was eight years old and I was excited as any eight-year-old can be. My excitement was caused not by chess, but by the arrival of a book I had ordered, titled How to be a Spy. It was full of thrilling tips which could be used by our ‘group’ in school to fool and ‘conquer’ the group of a neighboring school.
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[lang_nl]Nieuwe fragmenten Moskou Open[/lang_nl][lang_en]New fragments Moscow Open[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Inmiddels zijn partijen beschikbaar van rondes 3 tot en met 5 en uit deze rondes van het Moskou Open hebben we weer partijfragmenten. (En dit keer gaan er inderdaad vijf spelers aan de leiding!)[/lang_nl][lang_en]The games from rounds 3-5 from the Moscow Open are now available, and so we present you new game fragments. (And this time, five players are leading indeed!)[/lang_en] Read more

[lang_nl]Eindspeltechniek voor het oprapen[/lang_nl][lang_en]Endgame technique – it’s in the book[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Eindspeltechniek – dat is iets voor de groten der aarde. Of toch niet? Na Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual is er nu nog meer oefenmateriaal van hoog niveau beschikbaar. Een recensie van de laatste van Gambit: How to Play Chess Endgames.[/lang_nl][lang_en]Endgame technique – let’s leave that to the grandmasters. Well… After Dvoretsky’s Endgame Manual, new top level excercise material is now available. A review of Gambit’s latest: How to Play Chess Endgames.[/lang_en]
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[lang_nl]De studies van Corus-70[/lang_nl][lang_en]The Corus-70 Studies[/lang_en]

[lang_nl]Tijdens Corus 2008 werd er ook een compositietoernooi voor eindspelstudies gehouden. Jurlid was onze medewerker Yochanan Afek en vandaag publiceren we de studies in de volgorde van prijzen.[/lang_nl][lang_en]During Corus 2008, there was also an endgame studies composing tourney. The jury was our co-editor Yochanan Afek and today we publish the studies in the order of the prizes.[/lang_en] Read more

[lang_en]Order and chaos in chess[/lang_en][lang_nl]Orde en chaos in het schaakspel[/lang_nl]

[lang_nl]Wordt het schaakspel uiteindelijk door vaste regels en logica beheerst, of is het gewoon een ?¢‚ǨÀúrandom' spelletje? Een vergelijking met de wetenschap.

door Arne Moll [/lang_nl][lang_en]Is chess ultimately governed by fixed rules and logic, or is it just a ‘random’ game? A comparison with science.

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