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Sunday, February 24, 2013 19:41
Every week we present you an endgame study selected by IM Yochanan Afek: player, trainer, endgame study composer and writer. A week later the...
Sunday, February 24, 2013 0:47
Both games in the first round of the Zurich Chess Challenge ended in draws. Caruana-Anand was a positional Najdorf in which the Italian had a slight...
Saturday, February 23, 2013 15:16
Fabiano Caruana won a blitz event on Friday in Zurich of which the results were used for the drawing of lots for the Zurich Chess Challenge which...
Saturday, February 23, 2013 12:21
No less than seven grandmaster are tied for first after this round: Pavel Eljanov (Ukraine) Maxime Vachier-Lagrave (France), Yu Yangyi (China), Anish...
Friday, February 22, 2013 9:00
November 1960 saw the 14th Chess Olympiad take place in Leipzig in the former GDR, during the days of the Berlin Wall. (Come to speak of it, could...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 18:29
Last year two new books were published where the author took up the challenge of offering Black players a complete repertoire against 1.d4. After...
Thursday, February 21, 2013 13:27
After three rounds, there are still fifteen players with a 100% score at the Reykjavik Open, including top seeds Anish Giri and Maxime Vachier-...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 17:21
Last Saturday we posted news about FIDE trying to introduce player licences. It seemed that with such a licence, it would be necessary for every...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013 9:55
The Reykjavik Open started on Tuesday with a brief but special opening ceremony, because for the first time the Prime Minister spoke to the...
Tuesday, February 19, 2013 8:00
Radoslaw Wojtaszek won the 2nd Vladimir Petrov Memorial, another strong rapid event which took place this weekend in Jurmala, Latvia. The Polish...
