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Monday, February 25, 2013 13:51
Pavel Eljanov, Grzegorz Gajewski and Wesley So are tied for first place at the Reykjavik Open with three more rounds to go. Here's our report of...
Sunday, February 24, 2013 19:48
Again both games of the Zurich Chess Challenge ended in draws, in Sunday's second round. In the encounter between World Champions, Vishy Anand...
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...
