The comeback man, to the chagrin of a billion fans, has been beaten back – Anand was defeated in only 26 moves by Nakamura. Now Karjakin is staging a comeback by defeating Topalov in 35 moves. Meanwhile FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov has hinted that the World Championship in November might take place in the Trump Tower in New York! Here is the Express report.
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Candidates R12: Nakamura, Karjakin win
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Spiegel Cup
Prize winners at the Barry S. Spiegel Cup
Massachussets Chess Association announced the results of the 2016 State Championship
Many of the players and winners are frequent, familiar players at the Boylston.
Congratulations to all!
[ Tony Cortizas documented the event with a fine portfolio of photos, some below and some which can be viewed in a slideshow or individually by clicking here. ]
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| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. Trophies |
Prize winners at the
Barry S. Spiegel Cup,
which is the
Massachusetts state scholastic championship for individual players,
held March 20th in Marlborough, Mass.
High School Section
1st Mika Brattain 3.5-0.5
2nd-3rd Michael Isakov,
Siddharth Arun 3-1
Top Under 2000 Alex Fauman,
Anton Barash 2-2
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| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. Anton Barash |
Top Under 1600 William Nemirovsky 2-2
Age 14 & Under Section
1st Carissa Yip 4-0 |
| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. 14 & Under section: 1st Place Carissa Yip |
2nd-3rd Danila Poliannikov, Alex Yu 3-1
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| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. 14 & Under section: Tied 2nd & 3rd, Danila Poliannikov, Alex Yu |
Age 11 & Under Section
3rd Derek Jin 2.5-1.5
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| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. 11 & Under section: 1st David Zhou, 2nd Bernie Xu, 3rd Derek Jin |
Age 8 & Under Section
1st Raymond Xu 4-02nd-3rd Thomas Ha, Ryan Wang 2.5-1.5
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| Spiegel Cup State Championship 2016. 8 & Under section: 1st Raymond Xu, 2nd Thomas Ha, 3rd Ryan Wang |
Tied players are listed in tiebreak order.
Paul Arond,
Steve Frymer,
and Dmitry Barash.
Bob Messenger
Chief TD
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Prelimanary conclusions
I have been salt mining for two months in a row for a few hours per day now. Today I asked myself: if I am going to do this another six months, will I be better at tactics? The answer is: I don't think so. The past two months I lost 50 rating points at CT, and I have not the feeling that I'm making any progress at tactics at all.
This means that there probably is a fault in Aox' reasoning. As you know I didn't like it from the beginning, but I couldn't refute it, so I felt obliged to give it a chance. Somehow the analogy between "learning to read" and "learning board vision" must by faulty. I learned to read music notation in a few months, while feeling every day that I made progress, but during salt mining I don't have that feeling at all.
On the other hand, looking into the thought process with a fresh look and new energy, seems much more promising. The thought process helps to make less errors to begin with, and there is a lot of room for improvement in speed. I'm talking about minutes, not seconds here. So I'm going to shift my focus towards the thought process. I have the feeling that I did never reap the full fruits from my training the past years due to a sloppy thought process.
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This means that there probably is a fault in Aox' reasoning. As you know I didn't like it from the beginning, but I couldn't refute it, so I felt obliged to give it a chance. Somehow the analogy between "learning to read" and "learning board vision" must by faulty. I learned to read music notation in a few months, while feeling every day that I made progress, but during salt mining I don't have that feeling at all.
On the other hand, looking into the thought process with a fresh look and new energy, seems much more promising. The thought process helps to make less errors to begin with, and there is a lot of room for improvement in speed. I'm talking about minutes, not seconds here. So I'm going to shift my focus towards the thought process. I have the feeling that I did never reap the full fruits from my training the past years due to a sloppy thought process.
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Vishy Anand again?
Vishy Anand is again surprising the world with his spirit.
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Speelman on the Candidates: Fog of War
In horror films the fog never lifts until the very end. Despite twelve ferocious rounds of chess, fog still lies heavy on the Candidates tournament, but there is some indication of what we'll see when it clears. Despite some vile blunders and dreadful tension it's less a case of pure horror, and more a case of whodunnit - or rather who will do it.
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It's Your Move: daily chess puzzle #303
White to play and win Ciocaltea-Masic, Baja 1971 Solution The first move is obvious, 1 Nf5 has to be
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SAJCCC 2016 Bloemfontein
The South African Junior Chess Championships took place in Bloemfontein from the 20th to the 26th of
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How it's happening...
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My game analysis: Game 1
A mediocre 1800 performance where both sides fail to understand the key facts of some key positions. In the post game analysis I tried to go through both of our inaccuracies and the demand of some key positions. Hopefully the readers will find i...
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Debate Please , Engineers or medicine ? which is the best
Some of the Debate am posting below , i know Teaching is the best profession but they are not creating the world or saving the the world.Â
Debate 1Â Â You must consider you desire and capability first. Engineering require high intelligence and a...
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Finally, a chance to play the Bryntse Gambit
Sorry I didn't play 23. Na4!.
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Altibox Norway Chess 2016 Qualifier LIVE!
Live games with computer analysis
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Prinsenstad Toernooi 2016 LIVE!
Live games with analysis
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Promotion
Pawns have another special ability and that is that if a pawn reaches the other side of the board it
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any body i tamilnadu can challenge me
please someone could give me a trophy.
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Pix from Marshall March Under 2300
Last weekend, I photographed the players during the tournament at the Marshall Chess Club.
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Saturday
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Huge! GM Kiril Georgiev releases his knowledge on Berlin vs Ruy Lopez
Premium chess knowledge by Kiril Georgiev now in the Chessdom shop
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Candidates Rd12: Young guns forge ahead!
The comeback man, to the chagrin of a billion fans, has been beaten back – Anand was defeated in only 26 moves by Nakamura. Now Karjakin is staging a comeback by defeating Topalov. Meanwhile FIDE President Ilyumzhinov has hinted that the World Championship in November might take place in the Trump Tower in New York! Here is the full report with pictures, videos, and analysis.
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Multi-Site Chess Tournament
Northern California chess players are cordially invited to take part in a multi-site chess tournamen
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Pictorial report from Candidates 2016
Amruta Mokal is in Moscow for the Candidates 2016 and sends us beautiful pictures every day. Today we have a compilation of her photos which doesn’t include any of the eight candidates on the chess board. Here are pictures of spectators and famous personalities who visited the tournament hall and also the organizers who have made this event possible. Enjoy this pictorial.
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